Geodynamics, the study of the dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core
The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006 after Andrea Donnellan of the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, who was involved from the mid-1990s in research projects involving the use of GPS in studies of earth crustal deformation in Southern California and also in Antarctica.
GEOS-3 (Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite), a research satellite from NASA