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Meier was born and raised in Iowa.
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Mark F. Meier
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California Institute of Technology.
Career
Meier was the Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) from 1985 to 1994 and remained the institute"s director emeritus until his death in 2012. He was also a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado - Boulder. He resided in Boulder, Colorado, since 1985.
In 1956, Meier founded the United States. Geological Survey"s department of glaciology.
He obtained doctorate in 1957 from the California Institute of Technology. Meier served as the director of the United States. Geological Survey"s Project Office of Glaciology in Tacoma, Washington, until he became the director of INSTAAR in 1985.
Meier was one of the first glaciologists to use remote sensing to study glaciers and rates of melting. He headed several studies of tidewater glacier dynamics in the United States. state of Alaska.
Meier organized the systematic measurement and assessment of glacier mass balance within North America to mark the International Geophysical Year and International Hydrological Decade, which was observed from 1965 to 1975.
Meier died in Boulder, Colorado, on November 25, 2012, at the age of 86.
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