Image The Geographer.jpg thumb 250px The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography , the study of Earth s physical natural environment environment and human habitat ecology habitat . Though geographers are historically known as people who make map s, map making is actually the field of study of cartography , a subset of geography. Geographers study not only the physical details of the environment but also its effects on human and wildlife ecology ecologies , weather and climate patterns, economics, and culture. They are often especially focused on the spatial relationships between these elements. ref http www2.una.edu geography statedepted definitions.html What is Geography? A Series of Definitions Bot generated title ref Physical geographers identify, analyze, and interpret the distribution and arrangement of landforms and other features of the Earth s surface. Modern geographers are often involved in resolving List of environmental issues environmental problems . Many modern geographers are also the primary practitioners of geographic information system s and cartography . They are often employed by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as in the private sector by environmental and engineering firms. There is a well known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer , which is often linked to Vermeer s The Astronomer Vermeer The Astronomer . These paintings are both thought to represent the growing influence and rise in prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time of their painting, 1668 69. Areas of study There are two major fields of study, which are further subdivided Physical geography including geomorphology , hydrology , glaciology , biogeography , climatology , pedology , oceanography ... occupations Category Geographers Geographer de Geograph et Geograaf es Ge grafo eo Geografoj hr Geograf ... simple Geographer sl Geograf sh Geograf zh ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Jan Vermeer van Delft 009.jpg title The Geographer artist Johannes Vermeer year c. 1668 1669 type Oil painting Oil on canvas height 52 width 45.5 city Frankfurt am Main museum St delsches Kunstinstitut The Geographer is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1668 1669, and is now in the collection of the St delsches Kunstinstitut museum in Frankfurt am Main . Description File JohannesVermeer TheAstronomer 1668 .jpg thumb left 150px The Astronomer painting The Astronomer , which used the same model and other elements, has been considered a pendant to The Geographer This is one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated the other two are The Astronomer Vermeer The Astronomer and The Procuress The geographer, dressed in a Japanese style robe then popular among scholars, ref Wheelock 2000 ref is shown to be someone excited by intellectual inquiry , with his active stance, the presence of maps, charts, a globe and books, as well as the dividers he holds in his right hand, according to Arthur Wheelock Jr. The energy in this painting ... is conveyed most notably through the figure s pose, the massing of objects on the left side of the composition, and the sequence of diagonal shadows on the wall to the right. ref name awjvtcw Wheelock 1995 ref Vermeer made several changes in the painting that enhance the feeling of energy in the picture ... as The Geographer , although facing in roughly the opposite direction. The globe was published in Amsterdam ... the man are some of the actual items a geographer would have the globe, the dividers the man holds ... Vermeer, now unknown, depicting a lady pouring wine . He sold The Astronomer and The Geographer together ... The Geographer until his death in 1780. His widow owned the work until perhaps 1785. As of 1794 it was owned ... website. External links http www.essentialvermeer.com catalogue geographer.html The Geographer Web ... Der Geograph Web page at the Stadel Museum s website in German DEFAULTSORT Geographer, The Category ... more details
Infobox Journal cover Image Progeog.jpg 100px center br The 1 February 2007 cover of The Professional Geographer discipline Geography website http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp?ref 0033 0124 publisher Routledge country United States U.S. abbreviation None history 1949 to present frequency Quarterly ISSN 0033 0124 The Professional Geographer was originally a journal of the American Society of Professional Geographers, before it became a journal of the Association of American Geographers in 1949. The journal publishes short articles and book reviews in either academic or applied geography .The journal also provides a forum for discussion between academics along with a focus section with articles on topical issues. The 2009 impact factor for the journal is 1.712. See also List of scientific journals List of social science journals List of scientific journals in earth and atmospheric sciences DEFAULTSORT Professional Geographer Category Geography journals Category Scientific journal stubs Category Publications established in 1949 Category Taylor & Francis academic journals Category English language journals Geo term stub ... more details
Theophilus or Theophilos was a historian and geographer, if at least the passages about to be quoted refer to one and the same person. He is mentioned by Josephus c. Apion. i. 23 among those writers, who had noticed the Jews . The third book of his work on Italy polytonic , and the second of that on the Peloponnesus , are quoted by Plutarch Parallela Minora , 13, 32, pp. 309, a., 313, d . Ptolemy Geogr. i. 9. 3 quotes a statement from some geographical work by Theophilus, the title of which he does not mention, but which is no doubt the same as the polytonic , the eleventh book of which is referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. polytonic . Plutarch also de Fluv. 24 cites the first book of a work of Theophilus. Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 504, ed. Westermann. References SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Theophilus Category Ancient Greek geographers ... more details
For other uses ,see Patrocles Patrocles Ancient Greek Greek polytonic active c. 312 270 BC was a Macedon ian general and writer on geographical subjects. He served Seleucus I Nicator Seleucus and Antiochus I Soter Antiochus for several decades. After exploring the Caspian Sea , Patrocles concluded that the Caspian was a gulf or inlet that could be entered from the Indian Ocean . The only information on his work even the title is unknown is documented in the work of Strabo . As a military officer, Patrocles was a skilled engineer, and at one point managed to defend Babylonia for Seleucus against Demetrius Poliorcetes by flooding the irrigation canal s. After the death of Seleucus, Patrocles was sent by his successor Antiochus to put down a revolt in Asia Minor . However his forces were defeated there in an engagement with the Bithynians . References http www.1911encyclopedia.org Patrocles The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought Geography, Exploration, and Fiction Page 97 By James S. Romm ISBN 0691037884 Persondata name Patrocles alternative names short description date of birth place of birth date of death place of death DEFAULTSORT Patrocles Geographer Category 4th century BC births Category 3rd century BC deaths Category Ancient Macedonian generals Category Ancient Greek geographers Category Seleucid generals Category Ancient Greek explorers Category Ancient Macedonian geographers Ancient Greece bio stub de Patrokles Entdecker es Patrocles ge grafo zh ... more details
Other people Pausanias Listen filename 20090514 Pausanias.ogg title Pausanias geographer description An audio recording of this Wikipedia article NOTOC Pausanias Ancient Greek language Ancient Greek polytonic Pausan as was a Roman Greece Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian , Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius . He is famous for his Description of Greece polytonic , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical literature and modern archaeology . This is how Andrew Stewart assesses him ref One Hundred Greek Sculptors Their Careers and Extant Works , introduction. Citation needed date March 2007 ref blockquote A careful, pedestrian writer, he is interested not only in the grandiose or the exquisite but in unusual sights and obscure ritual. He is occasionally careless, or makes unwarranted inferences, and his guides or even his own notes sometimes mislead him yet his honesty is unquestionable, and his value without par. blockquote Biography Pausanias was probably a native of Lydia he was certainly familiar with the western coast of Asia Minor , but his travels extended far beyond the limits of Ionia . Before visiting Greece, he had been to Antioch , Jaffa, Israel Joppa and Jerusalem , and to the banks of the River Jordan . In Egypt , he had seen the Pyramid s, while at the temple of Amun Ammon , he had been shown the hymn once sent to that shrine by Pindar . In Macedonia region Macedonia , he appears to have seen the alleged tomb of Orpheus in Libethra. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus. 9.30.9 11 Pausanias, Description of Greece Boeotia,9.30.7 Going from Dium along the road to the mountain, and advancing twenty stades, you come to a pillar on the right surmounted by a stone urn, which according to the natives ... ru simple Pausanias geographer sk Pausanias geograf sl Pavzanij geograf sh ... more details
File Hermann Geogr Bavar1.png thumb 280px Localisation of gords and tribes The Bavarian Geographer lang la Geographus Bavarus is a conventional name given by Jan Potocki in 1796 ref J. Potocki. Fragments historiques et geographiques sur la Scythie, Sarmatie, et les Slaves . Brunsvic, 1796. ref to the author of an Anonymous work anonymous medieval document Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii Description of Cities and Lands North of the Danube . The short document was discovered in 1772 in the Bavarian State Library , Munich by Louis XV s ambassador to the Saxon court, Comte Louis Gabriel Du Buat Nan ay . ref Le comte du Buat. Histoire ancienne des peuples de l Europe . T. 11. Paris, 1772. ref It had been acquired by the Wittelsbach s with the collection of the antiquarian Hermann Sch del 1410&ndash 85 in 1571. The document was much discussed in the early 19th century historiography, notably by Nikolai Karamzin and Joachim Lelewel . ref J. Lelewel. Winulska S awia szczyzna z Geografa bawarskiego , Tygodnik Wile ski, nr 47, z dn. 8 pa dzernika 1816, s. 333, i w nast nych numerach 48&ndash 50. Also Joachim Lelewel, Geographe du Moyen Age III , Bruxelles 1852, s.21&ndash 45. ref The document contains a list of the tribes in Central Europe Central Eastern Europe Eastern Europe east of the Elbe and north of the Danube to the Volga rivers to the Black and Caspian Sea most of them of Slavic peoples Slavonic origin, with Rus people Ruzzi , and others such as Bulgars Vulgarii , etc . Absent on the list are Polans , Pomeranians Slavic tribe Pomeranians and Masovian s, tribes first of whom are believed to have settled along the shores of the Warta river during the 8th century. ref Andrzej Buko Archeologia Polski wczesno redniowiecznej odkrycia, hipotezy, interpretacje. Warszawa, 2005. ref There is also some information about the number of strongholds civitates possessed by some of the tribes. Henryk owmia ski demonstrated that the list consists of two ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 James White b. 1863 in Ingersoll, Ontario was a Canada Canadian geographer . White studied geology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario . In 1883, he became the Geographer and Chief Draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada . White and a team of 20 cartographers produced the first edition of the Atlas of Canada in 1906. White is buried at Beechwood Cemetery , in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME White, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT White, James Category Canadian geographers Category Year of death missing Canada scientist stub ... more details
Robert G. Bailey is an American geographer. In the mid 1990s the US Forest Service adapted the Bailey hierarchy of ecological units for use as the scientific framework for ecosystem management of the national forests. ref cite news first Norah Deakin last Davis authorlink coauthors title Following the mapmaker US Forest Service chief geographer Robert G. Bailey url http findarticles.com p articles mi m1016 is n5 6 v100 ai 15473421 work American Forests publisher date May June,1994 accessdate 31 March 2009 ref References references DEFAULTSORT Bailey, Robert Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category American geographers ... more details
about the British Geographer the musician George Chisholm musician George Chisholm 1850 1930 was a British geography geographer . He authored the first English language textbook on economic geography Handbook on Commercial Geography 1889 . It was later revised by Kenneth Stamp. ISBN 0 582 30015 0 . He authored a review of Friedrich Naumann s Pan German work on Central Europe which appeared in The Scottish Geographical Magazine issue 33, which condemned the aggressively militaristic overtones of Naumann s nationalistic work. In 1917, he was awarded the Charles P. Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society . External links Cite web url http www.scottish places.info people famousfirst113.html title Overview of George Goudie Chisholm work scottish places.info Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chisholm, George ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1850 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1930 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chisholm, George Category 1850 births Category 1930 deaths Category English geographers UK scientist stub geographer stub ... more details
unreferenced date September 2009 Georg Hartmann August 4, 1865 July 12, 1946 was a German geographer working in German South West Africa . He was born in Dresden and educated at Dresden and Leipzig. He was known for his Hartmann s Mountain Zebra Equus zebra hartmannae . Hartmann s Mountain Zebra is a subspecies of the Mountain Zebra native to south western Angola , Namibia and South Africa . Hartmann worked as a director for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and was a founder of the town Grootfontein in Otjozondjupa Region , Namibia . He died at Grammersdorf in Schleswig Holstein . Do not delete Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Hartmann, Georg ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German geographer DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1865 PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1946 PLACE OF DEATH Grammersdorf Schleswig Holstein DEFAULTSORT Hartmann, Georg Category 1865 births Category 1946 deaths Category People from Dresden Category Colonial people in German South West Africa Category History of Namibia Category German geographers Category German cartographers geographer stub Germany scientist stub de Georg Hartmann Forscher ... more details
Sarah Whatmore is a Professor of Environment and Public Policy at Oxford University . She received her PhD in geography in 1988 at University College London . ref name oxford homepage http www.geog.ox.ac.uk staff swhatmore.html Oxford University home page for Sarah Whatmore ref Whatmore is a critical geography critical geographer , questioning dialectical materialism Marxist materialist approaches in favor of actor network theory and feminist science studies . Her approach, laid out in her 2002 book Hybrid Geographies , ref name hybrid geog Sarah Whatmore, 2002. Hybrid Geographies . Sage Publications London. ref attempts to develop what she terms more than human modes of inquiry, and question the relationship between science and democracy. References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Whatmore, Sarah ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whatmore, Sarah Category Living people Category British geographers Category Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford Category Alumni of University College London Category Academicians of the Social Sciences UK scientist stub geographer stub ... more details
William Louis Garrison born 1924 is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley . While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the quantitative revolution in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science . Many of his students dubbed the space cadets went on to become noted professors themselves, including Brian Berry , Ronald Boyce , Duane Marble , Richard Morrill geographer Richard Morrill , John Nystuen , William Bunge , Michael Dacey , Arthur Getis , and Waldo Tobler . His transportation work focuses on innovation , the deployment of modes and logistic curve s, alternative vehicles and the future of the car . Books by Garrison Studies of Highway Development and Geographic Change with Brian Berry, Duane Marble, John Nystuen, and Richard Morrill Greenwood Press, New York. 1959 Tomorrow s Transportation Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives with Jerry Ward ISBN 1 58053 096 6 2000 The Transportation Experience Policy, Planning, and Deployment with David Levinson ISBN 0 19 517250 7 2005 Important Papers Berry, B.. and Garrison, W. L. 1958 The functional bases of the central place hierarchy . Economic Geography 34, 145 54. External links http cutc.tamu.edu awards recipient biographies garrison.asp CUTC Award for Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research 1998 includes brief autobiographical sketch http people.hofstra.edu geotrans tgsg news ullmanaward.htm Edward L. Ullman Award 1994 References Barnes, Trevor J. Placing ideas genius loci, heterotopia and geography s quantitative revolution Progress in Human Geography 28,5 2004 pp. 1 31 http www.geog.ubc.ca tbarnes Placing 20ideas.pdf Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Garrison ... Living people US scientist stub Geographer stub ... more details
Other uses Don Mitchell disambiguation Don Mitchell is an academic Geographer at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Maxwell School of Syracuse University . He is a graduate of the San Diego State University 1987 , Pennsylvania State University 1989 and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992. ref http www.maxwell.syr.edu geo faculty current mitchell.htm Don Mitchell s homepage at Syracuse University ref He is currently serving as the chairperson of the geography department at Syracuse. Considered one of the most influential young Geographers, he is perhaps best known for his work on cultural theory see Mitchell 1995 , and the http www.peoplesgeography.org People s Geography Project . ref cite journal last Mitchell first Don year 1995 title There s No Such Thing as Culture Towards a Reconceptualization of the Idea of Culture in Geography journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers volume 20 issue 1 pages 102 116 url http links.jstor.org sici?sici 0020 2754 281995 292 3A20 3A1 3C102 3ATNSTAC 3E2.0.CO 3B2 2 doi 10.2307 622727 publisher Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 20, No. 1 ref In 1998, he became a MacArthur Fellows Program MacArthur Fellow . Publications The Right to the City Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space 2003 The Lie of the Land Migrant Workers and the California Landscape 1996 Cultural Geography A Critical Introduction 2000 ISBN 1557868921 There s no such thing as culture towards a reconceptualization of the idea of cultural geography 1995 References reflist DEFAULTSORT Mitchell, Don US scientist stub Geographer stub Category American geographers Category Syracuse University faculty Category MacArthur Fellows Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people ... more details
This page is about the geographer Gillian Rose. For the philosopher, see Gillian Rose . Gillian Rose born 1962 is a United Kingdom British geographer and geographic author. As of May 2008, she is senior professor of culture at the Open University . She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography The Limits of Geographical Knowledge . Career Rose s current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture . She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of Published media media , and how those processes are embedded in power relations. She also has long standing interest in feminist film theory and in Michel Foucault s and feminist accounts of photography in particular. Works Written from a Marxist and radical feminist perspective, Feminism & Geography stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose is known for defining identity as how we make sense of ourselves and explained how we each have different identities on different scales, for example, someone s local identity is probably different than their global identity. She also describes sense of place as the process of infusing a place with meaning and feeling. In recent years she has written two books Deterritorialisations Revisioning Landscape and Politics 2003 and Visual Methodologies An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials 2007 . Rose, G. forthcoming Spectacles and spectres London, 7 July 2005 , New Formations. Rose, G. 2007 Visual Methodologies An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials, second edition, Sage. Rose, G. 2005 You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away, I think a case study of family photos, mothering and familial space , in Hardy, S and Wiedmer, C eds Motherhood and Space Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics ... Academics of the Open University Geographer stub UK scientist stub pt Gillian Rose ... more details
Other persons David Sadler David Sadler disambiguation David Sadler is a professor and a research er of human geography at the University of Liverpool , England . Sadler gained his first degree, and a doctorate from Durham University , and has held academic posts at Durham, and the University of Wales, Lampeter , before becoming a professor at Liverpool. His research interests include the Geographies of labour and trade union organisation, spatial dimensions of European Union policies, and the relationships between industrial change and regional development. See also Lampeter Geography School External links http www.liv.ac.uk geography staff sadler.htm David Sadler Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sadler, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sadler, David Category Alumni of Durham University Category British geographers Category British academics Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people UK academic bio stub anthropologist stub UK scientist stub Geographer stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Hermann Guthe 1824 1874 was a Germans German geography geographer , born at Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz region, and educated at Clausthal Zellerfeld Clausthal 1839 1845 , G ttingen 1845 1847 , and Berlin 1847 1848 , where he was a pupil of Carl Ritter Ritter . In 1849 he obtained an appointment as teacher in the school Lyceum of Hanover , and subsequently he taught mathematics at the Polytechnic High School of the same city. In 1873 he was appointed to the Chair official chair of geography at the Polytechnic Institute, Munich . He died of cholera . His geographical works include Die Lande Braunschweig und Hannover mit R cksicht auf die Nachbargebiete geographisch dargestellt second edition, 1887 fourth abridged edition, 1890 Lehrbuch der Geographie f r die mittleren und oberen Klassen h herer Bildungsanstalten sixth edition, 1894, et. seq. . NIE Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Guthe, Hermann ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1824 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1874 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Guthe, Hermann Category German geographers Category 1824 births Category 1874 deaths Category People from the Harz ... more details
Stewart R. McPherson 1983 is a British geographer . ref name McPherson McPherson, S.R. 2009. Pitcher Plants of the Old World . Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole. ref He studied at the University of Durham in England, the University of T bingen in Germany and Yale University in the United States . ref name McPherson He is the author of seven volumes concerned with natural history, largely focusing on carnivorous plant s Pitcher Plants of the Americas Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands Glistening Carnivores The Sticky Leaved Insect Eating Plants Pitcher Plants of the Old World 2 volumes Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 2 volumes McPherson co discovered a number of species, including Nepenthes attenboroughii Nepenthes attenboroughii . botanist S.McPherson McPherson, Stewart References reflist DEFAULTSORT Macpherson, Stewart Category British geographers Category Living people Category Alumni of Durham University Category Yale University alumni Category University of T bingen alumni es Stewart McPherson ... more details
Mark Jefferson 1863 1949 was the chief cartographer of the American Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He was also the head of the geography department at Michigan State Normal College MSNC , now Eastern Michigan University EMU , from 1901 1939. Jefferson received his bachelors degree from Boston University and his masters degree from Harvard University . From 1883 1889 he worked at an astronomical observatory in Argentina. From 1890 1901 he was a high school teacher in Massachusetts. In addition to teaching at MSNC he also taught at the Harvard Summer School. Among Jefferson s students were geographers Isaiah Bowman and Charles C. Colby . In 1916 Jefferson served as president of the American Association of Geographers . A biography of Jefferson entitled Mark Jefferson geographer written by Geoffrey J. Martin was published by Eastern Michigan University Press in 1968. EMU has a building named after Mark Jefferson. Sources http www.csiss.org classics content 12 CSISS article based on Jefferson s work Aurora MSNC yearbook 1918. http www.jstor.org stable 2561235 Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 39, no. 4 DEFAULTSORT Jefferson, Mark Category 1863 births Category Boston University alumni Category Harvard University alumni Category Eastern Michigan University faculty Category Harvard Summer School instructors Category Geographers Category 1949 deaths ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 About the geographer the Unitarian 1555 1597 Gy rgy Enyedi Unitarian eastern name order Enyedi Gy rgy Gy rgy Enyedi born 25 August 1930 in Budapest , Hungary is an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long term development of regional science. In the second part of the XX. Century due to the rapid development of integrative spatial sciences, regional science became an independent discipline Gy rgy Enyedi is a decisive figure in this process. Scientific career His first studies during the 60 s in agricultural and rural typology revealed the negative consequences of the transformation of the Hungarian settlement system with the social and economic inequalities of rural space. He continued his research career on international scale. He was the leader of a world wide comparative research team of the International Geographical Union , studying the development of rural space between 1972 and 1984. Until today he has led a high number of international research projects. In 1984 he founded the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Today the Centre is the leading organization of Hungarian regional science with a staff of one hundred researchers in four institutes, with a profile of analyses of European and Hungarian regional development. Achievements Author of 40 books and of more than 300 other publications. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1999 2005 vice president . Vice President of the International Geographical Union 1984 1992 President of the Hungarian committee of UNESCO 1998 2002 Editor in chief of the periodic Hungarian Science . He was visiting scholar in various leading US and French universities and has spent altogether seven years lecturing in different countries. He is an honorary member of seven foreign geographical societies, member of the Academia Europaea in London and member of the editorial board of several international journals he is the recipient of several Hungarian ... more details
Infobox Book name London Geographer s A Z Street Atlas title orig translator image Deleted image removed Image London A to Z 2004.jpg 150px Cover image caption Cover of 2004 edition author Geographers A Z Map Company illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language series subject Street map genre publisher Geographers A Z Map Company Ltd. pub date 1936 first edition english pub date media type Print Paperback pages 430 pp seventh edition isbn ISBN 9781843483281 oclc 80760632 preceded by followed by The A Z or A to Zed , or in full the Geographers A Z Street Atlas , is a name given to any one of a range of atlas cartography atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers A Z Map Company Limited . The first atlas, of London , was originally compiled in the 1930s by Phyllis Pearsall . The company she founded now publishes street map s of many cities and towns in the UK. Dating old maps Image Geographers London Map 1957 Cover.jpg 150px right The cover of the Authentic Map of London from 1957 Until quite recently, the maps produced by the Geographers A Z Map Company did not list their publication date, so dating them can be quite hard. A few things that can help are Their first map was published in 1936 There were no maps produced by them during WW2 1939 1945 Until 1962, the Published By address was 24 Grays Inn Road, Holborn, London From 1962 to 1992, the Published By address was Sevenoaks, Kent From 1992 onwards, the Published By address is Borough Green, Kent In 1972, the company name was changed from Geographers Map Company to Geographers A Z Map Company Cartographic date On all their maps, there is a 3 or 4 letter code in one of the corners, often the one containing the key. These letters represent numbers, which are the cartographic date, in the form M MYY. There is at least one scheme in use, but possibly also a second. One scheme is JIHGFEDCBA ... not been confirmed . Media appearance The Geographer s A Z Street Atlas and the story of how Phyllis ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Colin D. Woodroffe is a geographer and coastal geomorphologist currently serving as Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong . He is the Coordinator of the GeoQuEST Research Centre . His international research focuses on the morphology, stratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of tropical and subtropical coasts, and the application of Geographical Information Systems GIS to the study of processes and change in the coastal zone. He has researched the following Morphodynamics of estuaries and deltas Reef morphology and sedimentation Coral paleoclimatology and ocean circulation Reef island evolution and climate change Publications Woodroffe, C.D., B. Samosorn, Q. Hua, and D.E. Hart 2007 Incremental accretion of a sandy reef island over the past 3000 years indicated by component specific radiocarbon dating . Geophysical Research Letters , 34 L03602, doi 10.1029 2006GL028875. Woodroffe, C.D. 2007 Critical thresholds and the vulnerability of Australian tropical coastal ecosystems to the impacts of climate change . Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue , vol. 50 pp. 469 473. Woodroffe, C.D., Kennedy, D.M., Brooke, B.P. and Dickson, M.E. 2006 Geomorphological evolution of Lord Howe Island and carbonate production at the latitudinal limit to reef growth . Journal of Coastal Research , vol. 22 pp. 188 201. Woodroffe, C.D., Nicholls, R.J., Saito, Y., Chen, Z. and Goodbred, S.L. 2006 Landscape variability and the response of Asian megadeltas to environmental change . Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management The Asia Pacific Region , Springer, pp. 277 314. Woodroffe, C.D., Kennedy, D.M., Jones, B.G. and Phipps, C.V.G., 2004. Geomorphology and Late Quaternary development of Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs . Coral Reefs , vol. 23 pp. 249 262. Woodroffe, C.D. 2003 Coasts, form, process and evolution . Cambridge University ... Woodroffe, Colin Geographer Category Australian academics Category Australian educators Category ... more details
for other people called John Adams John Adams disambiguation Professor John Adams of University College London , is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist . His book Risk is an analysis of how humans assess and respond to perceived risk s. Adams spoke at the Shared Space conference held in Ipswich, UK in June, 2005, where in his talk titled Risk Compensation versus the obedient automaton theory of human behaviour he discussed how understanding risk compensation was essential to the understanding of why shared space principles work for the design of public spaces such as road layouts in towns. ref name SharedSpace cite web year 2005 url http www.shared space.org files 12965 ReportSharedSIConference.pdf title Conference Tuesday, June 7 format PDF publisher Shared Space accessdate 2006 04 26 ref He has also coined the term and written extensively on the phenomenon of hypermobility travel hypermobility . Adams has been critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has praised reputable scientists who react sceptically to the hockey stick peddled by Sir John Houghton and the IPCC. http john adams.co.uk 2010 06 09 not published in new scientist . Bibliography Risk , UCL Press, 1995. ISBN 1 85728 068 7. References reflist External links http www.john adams.co.uk John Adams website http www.geog.ucl.ac.uk jadams index.htm John Adams page on the UCL website http www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk blog authors.php?author johna Articles on Risk by John Adams for the Social Affairs Unit Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Adams, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Adams, John Category British environmentalists Category British geographers Category Academics of University College London Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people UK scientist stub UK nonfiction writer stub geographer stub ... more details
Orphan date June 2009 Image DougPowell.JPG right thumb Doug Powell near the mountains that inspired him as a young man Douglas R. Powell 1920 2006 was a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley . He was known for being one of the first snow surveyors in the world. He worked with the California Cooperate Snow Survey for28 years and established snow surveying programs in Afghanistan and Chile. ref name obit http www.universityofcalifornia.edu senate inmemoriam douglasrpowell.html Faculty senate in memoriam ref His fabled ref http geoimages.berkeley.edu GeoImages About GeoImages.html GeoImages History ref Geography 197 field course, which he taught from 1967 until 1989, is fondly remembered by generations of Berkeley geography graduates. In 1976 the university awarded him the Distinguished Teaching Award. ref name obit He was voted Best Undergraduate Instructor by the student body. ref http articles.sfgate.com 2006 01 31 news 17279426 1 white mountains snow surveys winters San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2006 ref The Western Montana Atlas of Panoramic Aerial Images is dedicated to his memory. ref http 130.166.124.2 montana panorama atlas index.html Western Montana Atlas dedication page ref A memorial fund in his name, the Douglas R. Powell Fund for Field Geography, has been established at UC Berkeley. ref http geography.berkeley.edu about memory.php Geography at Berkeley In memory ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Powell, Doug ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1920 PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton, California DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2006 PLACE OF DEATH Berkeley, California DEFAULTSORT Powell, Doug Category 1920 births Category 2006 deaths Category American geographers US academic bio stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 John Peter Cole b. 1928, Sydney , Australia is a United Kingdom British geographer . He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1950. He later returned there to join the staff of the Geography Department, rising to become Professor of Urban geography Urban and regional geography Regional Geography . He is currently Emeritus Professor of Geography at the university. Since 1957 he has written or co authored over 25 books on geography. Bibliography Geography of World Affairs 1959, several later editions Quantitative Geography Techniques and Theories in Geography with C. A. M. King 1968 New Ways in Geography A Guide for Teachers with N. J. Beynon 1969 Latin America An Economic and Social Geography 1975 Situations in Human Geography A Practical Approach 1978 Regional Inequality in Services and Purchasing Power in the USSR, 1940 1976 with M. E. Harrison 1978 Peru, 1940 2000 Performance and Prospects with P. M. Mather 1978 The Development Gap A Spatial Analysis of World Poverty and Inequality 1981 Geography of the Soviet Union 1984 China 1950 2000 Performance and Prospects 1985 Development and Underdevelopment A Profile of the Third World 1987 Modern Soviet Economic Performance with Trevor Buck 1987 Geography of the World s Major Regions 1996 A Geography of the European Union with Francis Cole 1997 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cole, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cole, John Category British geographers Category Living people Category 1928 births ... more details
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