| 单词 | geographer |
| 例句 | From a geographer’s point of view, it is a splendid anomaly, commencing with its extreme aridity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Cahokians' solution to this problem was discovered mainly by Woods, the University of Kansas archaeologist and geographer, who has spent two decades excavating Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The significance of that botanical wealth for humans is illustrated by the geographer Mark Blunder's studies of wild grass distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Turner, the Clark geographer, was skeptical about the evidence for the killer drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Columbus had been an itinerant peddler of old maps and an assiduous reader of the books by and about the ancient geographers, including Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On this bluff geographers and archaeologists in the 1990s found an area more than three miles long that was thickly covered with broken ceramics, much like Ibibate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As Dante pointed out in 1320, there was an obvious problem here, for the arguments of the philosophers and the maps of the geographers did not match up. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes, in a lost work quoted by the Roman-era geographer Strabo, wrote that of the kingdom of the pharaohs “there was a common saying: ‘The way to Egypt is long and vexatious.’.. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z What a pleasure such a view would have given to Eratosthenes and the other Alexandrian geographers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z More important, anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and historians who were reassessing the environmental impact of indigenous cultures in North and Central America inevitably turned to the tropical forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But there was as yet no general crisis for the two-spheres theory: the geographers summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to advise on Columbus’s plans had no hesitation in dismissing them out of hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to W George Lovell, a geographer at Queen’s University in Ontario, it was “the greatest destruction of lives in human history.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z According to William Woods, the geographer and archaeologist at the University of Kansas, Monks Mound completely covers whatever habitation these people had before they built Cahokia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Questions that emerge from worldwide comparisons of human societies formerly attracted much attention from historians and geographers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, according to Billie Lee Turner, a geographer at Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, it was unique in world history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Especially useful contributions have been made by ecological geographers, cultural anthropologists, biologists studying plant and animal domestication, and scholars concerned with the impact of infectious diseases on history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The plateau has never been carefully excavated, but observations by geographers Woods and Joseph McCann of the New School in New York City indicate that it is thick with ceramics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a recent book, “Capital City,” the geographer Samuel Stein puts this debate into context, and adds to it. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A geographer by training, he knows that some people don’t appreciate electronic cartography. 'The perfect combination of art and science': mourning the end of paper maps 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z In 2021, she arranged for geographers and students from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., to use ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and other technologies to peer under the earth at Jungfernhof. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Stein, a geographer at the City University of New York, tries to establish how industrial cities, in becoming postindustrial, opened the way for real estate to enter the breach. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Most recent big histories are by geographers, economists, psychologists and political scientists, many writing under the guiding framework of biological evolution. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z "The family were not just working class; they were poor," says Professor Stephen Daniels, a social geographer at Nottingham. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z Wright came from a family of both amateur and professional geographers, and over the years he occasionally referred to a country that he had invented as a child, Islandia. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z These are places where, as the geographer Reece Jones notes in his book “Violent Borders,” thousands of people each year are now “losing their lives simply trying to go from one place to another.” What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Did it ever once occur to you that that was what geographers actually did? TV review: Town With Nicholas Crane; The Rattigan Enigma 2011-07-28T21:04:00Z But, as geographers have pointed out for some time, it also requires disinvestment: neighborhoods decline, in part, because of state neglect, and yuppies rush in where planners fear to tread. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Not a novelist but a geographer, Guilluy coined the term that “And Their Children After Them” so meticulously works to illustrate: la France périphérique. When White Working-Class Fury Came of Age 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Following Ptolemy, the Arab geographers placed Syria in the third clime and Iraq in the fourth, both known for their temperate weather. Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Maps are how we organize our data,” the Canadian medical geographer Tom Koch, a leading expert on “disease mapping,” told Mask. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z As an urban geographer, I study the important role of public space in cities. A nation divided: Comparing Trump’s inauguration to those of the past 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z What makes return migration so important to cities, especially smaller ones, is that, as geographer Jim Russell puts it, places don’t develop, people do. Moving home: The new key to success 2012-06-23T16:00:00Z If the South was “no realm for geographers,” neither was Dusty Springfield anything they would find in their travels. Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z This book, with contributions from historians, geographers and environmental scientists, aims to aid conversation about the treaty before some of its provisions expire in 2024. NW Books: A look at the intelligence of crows 2013-02-16T23:43:48Z According to late Marxist geographer Neil Smith: The central mechanism behind gentrification can be thought of as a ‘rent gap.’ Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z We trace stories across these familiar landscapes, becoming geographers of emotion. Movie Review: ‘Locke’ Centers on a Fateful Night’s Journey 2014-04-24T21:57:58Z In a new series, geographer Nicholas Crane celebrates Britain's towns. TV highlights 28/07/11 2011-07-27T20:59:01Z But as a longtime Prince fan who's also a human geographer, I've found myself drawn to the way his hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, cultivated his talent. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The group included poets, composers, geographers, neuroscientists, historians and more, each of whom approached the topic of rest slightly differently. We need to learn how to relax, without guilt 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Dee was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, navigator, book collector, philosopher and proponent of empire for an expanding Britain. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z Being a geographer, a sense of geography is presumably very important to him. Town with Nicholas Crane; Love and Death in City Hall – TV review 2013-05-22T06:00:16Z They chart remote landscapes by “rescuing such details, known to no geographer in the world.” Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “When you actually look at the amount of refuse up and down the coast, it’s quite phenomenal,” says David Leverton, a geographer who spent the summer of 2012 monitoring the debris. Things they lost in a tsunami 2013-03-10T21:00:00Z Social geographers call these deviating routes "desire lines" because they reflect the courses people want to walk rather than the those selected for them by planners or other walkers. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z His contemporary, geographer and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, called it “dental pictography.” How Indigenous artists are reinvigorating the art of birch bark biting 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In Mexico, José Antonio de Alzate, a geographer and naturalist, published an extensive treatise on cochineal, which is also on display, along with his map of Mexico City, marked with the dye. An Insect’s Colorful Gift, Treasured by Kings and Artists 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z I have this friendly bet with an urban geographer whose theory of cities is that they only change through crises — like the one we’re experiencing right now. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z His drawings and paintings navigate an intricate course between the viewpoint of a landscape artist and a geographer. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Julia Raeside Second instalment of geographer Nicholas Crane's three-part survey of those conurbations too small to possess the clout and allure of cities, and too big to be endowed with the twee romance of villages. TV highlights 28/05/2013 2013-05-28T06:00:02Z However, many archaeologists, geographers and historians valued his academic writings and his company, and he was very generous in visiting fieldwork projects and attending seminars, where he gave good advice and encouragement. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z Simon Cook is a runner, geographer and running geographer. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Critical geographer and social justice activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls racism “group differentiated vulnerability to premature death.” Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Ulf Büntgen, a geographer at the University of Cambridge, has worked in the Siberian north for decades, gathering tree ring data for paleoclimatic studies in a region still poorly covered by measurements. Scientists in Russia struggle in a world transformed by its war with Ukraine 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z When he examined the map, he saw the figure was actually an homage to the 2nd century geographer Ptolemy. A $7.5-million find: Overlooked Getty estate sale map turns out to be 14th century treasure 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z "It has never been this bad in decades past," the geographer who has lived for 30 years in the Amazon said. Wildfires in dry Amazon rainforest choke Manaus city 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z “They obviously had a tricky set of material here,” adds Helen Roberts, a geographer and OSL dating expert at Aberystwyth University. New footprint dates bolster claim that humans lived in Americas during Ice Age 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z “Here’s good evidence that a strongly African genetic marker shows up really early,” says Louisiana State University geographer Andrew Sluyter, who was not involved in the research. Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The professor, a geographer at Montana State University, adds that "climate change-driven weather extremes are a huge problem for China because of its dense population and as a major global economy". China’s summer of climate destruction 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z "I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says. Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z That banality, by the way, included a sustained violence that's intrinsically part of the modern border system, as geographer Reece Jones argues in his book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. The real border surge: The end of Title 42 and the triumph of the border-industrial complex 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z A third of Lisbon's historical centre is unoccupied, according to geographer and housing researcher Luís Mendes, and recent cases suggest the state is making the situation worse. Portugal housing crisis: 'I'll have to move back in with mum' 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The presenter, geographer Jacob Nordangård, sets out the case for an "open conspiracy" in which a global elite, spearheaded by the World Economic Forum, is attempting the "technocratic reshaping of humanity and the planet." How do we know what is true? In an age of war, pandemic and conspiracy theory, it's not easy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Maps were created by geographers who collected information about the known world through either their own observations or knowledge disseminated by others. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Bruce Forbes, a geographer at Finland’s University of Lapland, is moving a planned study of the cues that guide reindeer migration across the tundra from Siberia to northern Finland. ‘We are cut off.’ Tensions with Russia are hobbling Arctic research 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z As social geographer Frédéric Landy of the University of Paris has noted in his work, it wasn't the slum dwellers—the people most often attacked—who were calling for leopards to be removed. Leopards Are Living among People. And That Could Save the Species 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z “We have a mismatch of intent and strategy,” said Jim Russell, a geographer who chairs the Virginia Statewide Community Land Trust. Amazon HQ2 was thought up pre-pandemic. But the world is hybrid now. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Bulldozers started digging up bodies and a Brazilian geographer was flown in to identify them. Angola's 1977 massacre: Tragic twist for orphans of mass killings 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z "Some people are not eating to pay rent... there are truly dramatic cases out there," Luis Mendes, a housing researcher and geographer at the University of Lisbon, said. Young Portuguese defer dreams as housing crisis bites 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “Their main concern is lifestyle migration. They really, truly want to live here and have a more cosmopolitan lifestyle,” said Luis Mendes, an urban geographer at the University of Lisbon. Americans head to Europe for the good life on the cheap 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Gita Ljubicic, a geographer at McMaster University, has been leading a survey of residents in eight northern communities to see what weather data they want. Dwindling weather data leave Canadians in the cold 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In contrast, Erzin stands higher above sea level, and is built on hard ground comprising “bedrock and coarser grains than sand,” said Tamer Duman, a geographer. Why Did a Turkish City Withstand the Quake When Others Crumbled? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z “This really corresponds to where and how transmission is actually happening at those locations,” said Sadie Ryan, a medical geographer at the University of Florida. How Climate Change Is Spreading Malaria in Africa 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But what Henry values about his neighborhood, the geographer and public health researcher says, actually jibes with a hot concept in urban planning called the “15-minute city.” Is your part of Seattle a ’15-minute’ neighborhood? Check out this map 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “The city relies on illegal activities such as illegal gold mining, illegally harvested wood, cattle raised in off-limits areas within conservation units, and land grabbing,” said Mauricio Torres, a geographer from Para Federal University. Brazil authorities probe Amazon ties to capital attacks 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The Conversation asked Rashad Shabazz, a geographer and scholar of African American studies at Arizona State University, to explore the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man. Black cops aren’t colorblind – they’re infected by the same anti-Black bias as American society 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The former geographer and lawyer starts from a place of not knowing. Naomi Duguid explores ‘The Miracle of Salt’ in her new cookbook 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The geographer Jared Diamond has called domestication the worst mistake humans ever made. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z There were also trees now found only in more temperate forests, however, such as poplar and cedar, says study co-author Mikkel Pedersen, a physical geographer at the University of Copenhagen. World’s Oldest DNA Discovered, Revealing Ancient Arctic Forest Full of Mastodons 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z University of Richmond geographer David Salisbury also saw it as an existential threat to Indigenous communities. Essential reads on issues in the Amazon 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The original guidelines were developed over months in consultation with museums, historians, professors, political scientists, geographers, economists, teachers, parents and students. Virginia education department proposes major changes to social studies standards 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Ben Nyberg, a geographer and drone specialist at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, wanted to try using remote-controlled flying robots in places that are difficult to access. Drones Sample Rare Specimens from Cliffs and Other Dangerous Places 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Alongside Arab geographers and historians and Christian scholars translating texts from Greek to Arabic, Al-Farabi wrote and taught. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The 402-page standards, now being reviewed and revised, were developed over months in consultation with museums, historians, professors, political scientists, geographers, economists, teachers, parents, business leaders and students. Virginia Board of Education delays review of history standards 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z "Making the supply chains for these four commodities more sustainable is an important strategy for reducing deforestation," wrote Texas State University geographer Jennifer Devine. Essential reads on issues in the Amazon 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z According to Ricardo Gilson, a geographer at the Federal University of Rondonia, large swaths of the so-called arc of deforestation, which encompasses dozens of cities, share that cultural history. Little talk of rainforest protection in the Brazilian Amazon 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Silvia Secchi, an economist and geographer at the University of Iowa, said a key problem with the legislation is that it doesn’t break new ground. As Congress funds high-tech climate solutions, it also bets on a low-tech one: Nature 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Topi Tjukanov, a geographer and senior map designer at Mapbox, put the visualization together, which features different influential people from fields including culture, science, leadership, and sports. This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The researchers had performed a similar feat in 2020 using insulin from the geographer cone snail. Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Based on earlier studies, “it was thought that natural seep and oil from human activities were roughly equal,” says Dong, a geographer at Nanjing University in China. Ocean Oil Slick Map Reveals Enough Greasy Patches to Cover France—Twice 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z There is an abolitionist geographer, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who wrote, “If justice is embodied, it is then therefore always spatial, which is to say, part of the process of making a place.” Carceral architecture is everywhere in L.A. What could the city look like without it? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “We’ve heard people say 2,500 was too low. That was the impetus for the increase,” said Michael Ratcliffe, a senior geographer with the Census Bureau. 100s of US urban areas will become rural with new criteria 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z In all, according to a fire analysis by University of Maryland geographer Louis Giglio, more than 100 fires have scorched the ranch since 2004. How Americans’ love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest The human insulin molecule's clumping region is also crucial for binding to cells' receptors, and this region is truncated in the geographer cone snail's insulin. Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Walker Ashley, an atmospheric scientist and disaster geographer at Northern Illinois University, has documented an acute increase in tornado vulnerability in the Southeast because of what he calls the “expanding bull’s eye effect.” 20 years after La Plata disaster, D.C. area’s tornado risk has grown 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "Those joint research grants were helping a lot of Russians," lamented Russian geographer Dmitry Streletskiy, at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Ukraine conflict hurts Russian science, as West pulls funding 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z That means that cities can potentially "solve two-thirds of the problem. So that's pretty exciting," said Yale University geographer Karen Seto, a lead author of the chapter. Cities drive climate change, and can provide a solution, UN says 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Soon afterward, a Florentine geographer named Amérigo Vespucci visited the area, and later declared in print that the lands that Columbus had called the Indies were actually a continent previously unknown to Europe. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Cartographers and geographers are complicit in promoting this fictional twist. Distortion, half-truths, outright lies — our 2nd April Fools’ quiz 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search,” the veteran geographer John Shears, who led the mission, said in a statement shared to Twitter. Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found a century later, nearly 10,000 feet under the Antarctic ice 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z When looking at migration, historians and geographers speak of push-pull factors. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An earlier version of this article misidentified Marcelo Fischer Gramani of the Institute for Technological Research in São Paulo as a geographer. Brazil mudslides: Climate change turns favelas into disasters waiting to happen 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z After the death of both parents within months of each another when he was not yet 16, he moved to Caracas, Venezuela, to live with an older half-brother, Claudio Perna, a Conceptual artist and geographer. Luciano Perna, an L.A. Conceptual artist known for spectral photos and homey sculptures, dies at 63 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z David Stahle, a geographer and tree longevity researcher at the University of Arkansas, who was not involved in the review essay, used words such as “excellent” and “comprehensive” to describe it. Trees Have the Potential to Live Indefinitely 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The map is sharper and more up to date than many currently in use, says Amy Molotoks, a geographer at the Stockholm Environment Institute. Cropland has gobbled up over 1 million square kilometers of Earth’s surface 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z During the sectarian violence of Iraq, unleashed by neocons finding “useful paradigms” in the United States’ longest-running war movie, Dutch geographer Harm de Blij addressed a despondent group of American college students. Opinion | When the world needed saving, the U.S. was there 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Everyone, it seems, has this premonition in common: early Chinese writers, Greek philosophers, medieval European cartographers, Persian geographers, Tibetan monks. In ‘Imaginary Peaks,’ Katie Ives explores our fascination with mythical mountains 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “It’s an airtight article,” says Deondre Smiles, a geographer at the University of Victoria and a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, who was not involved in the study. Native tribes have lost 99% of their land in the United States 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “In those regions people rely heavily on the damming of the rivers for irrigation,” says study co-author Xixi Lu, a physical geographer at the National University of Singapore. Muddier Rivers Are Jeopardizing Dams and Water Quality for Millions 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Prof Steve Musson, an economic geographer from the University of Reading, said city status in itself did not necessarily draw any extra inward investment to an urban area or a region. Sir David Amess: What does city status mean for Southend? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “Our study is a jumping-off point to start helping those in need,” says co-author Cascade Tuholske, a geographer at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure Is Growing Quickly in Cities 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The study convincingly demonstrates that people were on the Azores as early as about 700, says Simon Connor, a geographer at the Australian National University who studies the paleoecology of the archipelago. Vikings in paradise: Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Among them are engineers, economists, public health workers, critical geographers, social scientists and artists. $15 million grant is awarded to university researchers finding solution to food waste 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Some members of the scientific advisory committee — made up of statisticians, geographers and academics — expressed concerns with the proposal, noting that researchers in various fields rely on data at the smallest levels. Census ponders producing less granular data in next release 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The region’s water outlook will be “bleak” long before then, said University of Lethbridge geographer Christopher Hopkins. Rocky Mountain dry: Canada's waning water supply sows division in farm belt 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “People die and lose their homes and livelihood,” said Beth Tellman, a human-environmental geographer at the University of Arizona and lead author of the paper. Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones, satellite imagery shows 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “People die and lose their homes and livelihood,” said Beth Tellman, a human-environmental geographer at the University of Arizona and lead author of the paper, published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones, satellite imagery shows 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z For researcher David Hondula, a health geographer with the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at ASU who studies extreme heat, one solution is overdue. Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona’s mobile homes 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Cole Harris, a retired University of British Columbia geographer, believes that Native people carried the smallpox virus from the Great Plains to the Columbia River and finally north into Puget Sound via trade networks. Coast Salish people persevered in the Puget Sound region despite settlers who took their land and forced them into unfair treaties 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z “The basic functioning of the planet would effectively grind to a halt without plants, but people care more about animals,” said Jared Margulies, a geographer at the University of Alabama who studies plant trafficking. Global cactus traffickers are cleaning out the deserts 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z “The pandemic has turned up the dial, and to me it brings out a sense of urgency,” says Arrianna Marie Planey, a medical geographer at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Will COVID Force Public Health to Confront America’s Epic Inequality? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Nationalists believed "wishes of the inhabitants" meant at the very least, mainly nationalist areas along the border would transfer to the Free State, according to political geographer Kieran Rankin. NI 100: Tracing the history of the 100-year-old Irish border 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Specifically, geographers are concerned about the spread of fake, AI-generated satellite imagery. Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z In 1975, Sherwood “Woody” Gagliano, a geographer and private environmental consultant who pioneered research into Louisiana’s coastal erosion, mapped an elaborate system of levees and canals that could funnel freshwater and sediment into Barataria Bay. Rerouting the Mississippi River could build new land—and save a retreating coast 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Last year geographer Sam Chambers published an unusual map of the Sonoran Desert. In the Sonoran Desert, GIS helps to map migrant deaths 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Planey, the medical geographer, says that academics could learn how to write memos that politicians can understand in three minutes. Will COVID Force Public Health to Confront America’s Epic Inequality? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Michel Carmona, a historian and geographer specializing in Paris, said that the cultural erosion of the Latin Quarter started in the 1980s and was intertwined with the gradual decline of student life. In the Latin Quarter, Paris’ intellectual heartbeat grows fainter with the loss of bookstores 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z But the experts included no professional political scientist, psychologist, geographer or historian; there was little expertise on the political and cultural dimensions of the problem. Expert Opinion Can’t Be Trusted If You Consult the Wrong Sort of Expert 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Gene Longenecker, a hazards geographer who recently returned to Alabama, didn’t really suffer from pollen allergies until he moved to Atlanta. Nothing to sneeze at: Global warming triggers earlier pollen 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Chambers' chosen topic represents a burgeoning effort to use GIS to understand the risk undocumented migrants face while crossing international borders, according to Jonathan Cinnamon, a geographer at Ryerson University in Toronto. In the Sonoran Desert, GIS helps to map migrant deaths 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Civilian surveillance satellites such as Landsat were flying hundreds of miles up to take images of the planet for farmers, geographers and other specialists. Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Bradley Garrett, a social geographer at University College Dublin and author of Bunker: Building for End Times, agrees with this figure and says worldwide there are now 20 million preppers. Why 'preppers' are going mainstream 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The study is “a valuable contribution,” says Philip Howell, a historical geographer at the University of Cambridge and an expert on the changing relationship between humans and animals. Dogs and cats became family—and got their shot at heaven—after World War II 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z We have no way of knowing the full story behind the remarkable journey, write geographer Matthew Bennett and palaeontologist Sally Reynolds, who analysed the footprints. Daily briefing: A plan to make journal abstracts free to read in one place 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z “After him, the ocean was no longer labeled ‘dark and mysterious,’ ” says Franco Farinelli, geographer at the University of Bologna. Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The economic decline on the reservation is nothing new, said Andrew Curley, a Navajo geographer and assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Covid ravages Navajo Nation as Trump makes election play for area 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The study represents “a lightning step forward” in precision compared with earlier studies, says geographer Matthew Fagan of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was not involved in the work. Plant trees or let forests regrow? New studies probe two ways to fight climate change 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z We geographers debate the meaning of place — is it just a collection of people? Seattle, it’s hard, but I love you 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The unprecedented Arctic wildfires of 2019 and 2020 show that transformational shifts are already under way, says Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Arctic is burning like never before 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The "intermingling of business and medicine leads to lots of problems," said Carolin Schurr, a geographer at the University of Bern who studies the transnational fertility industry. Facing high costs at home, Americans seek fertility help abroad 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z “What it really brings home for me is the Herculean effort that went into making this structure in a reasonably short time window,” says physical geographer David Nash. Daily Briefing: NASA’s Perseverance rover blasts off for Mars 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “We quietly jumped up and down with excitement,” says lead author David Nash, a physical geographer at the University of Brighton in England. One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “The confederados presented themselves as refugees of a devastated America,” said Jordan Brasher, a geographer at Columbus State University who wrote his dissertation on the confederado communities. They lost the Civil War and fled to Brazil. Their descendants refuse to take down the Confederate flag. 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Ibn al-Faqlh, a Persian geographer in the 10th century, asserted people in equatorial climates were born “either like uncooked pastry or like things so thoroughly cooked as to be burnt.” The Ugly History of Climate Determinism Is Still Evident Today 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Dr Daniel Allen, an animal geographer at Keele University who has created three petitions calling for pet theft reform, said reasons thieves stole pets include selling them on or breeding them. Pet theft law change urged amid rise in lockdown 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “I just can’t sit on the sidelines anymore,” said the retired geographer from Springfield, Va., his voice cracking with emotion as he stood in the street bordering Lafayette Square. As protesters gather in D.C., they wonder if their moment will endure 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The work may be the longest recorded modern response of a mammal to its habitat being developed for agriculture, says study author Catalina Munteanu, a geographer at Humboldt University of Berlin. Cold War satellites inadvertently tracked species declines 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z I did my first research cruise as a physical geographer in 2013 as part of the British Antarctic Survey, and I’ve done three more since then. In splendid isolation: the research voyages that prepared us for the pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Some studies found an association between wildfire smoke and hospitalizations overall, and others did not, says Colleen Reid, a health geographer at the University of Colorado Boulder and an author of the review. How should vulnerable people be protected during wildfires? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z A California geographer and urban explorer, Garrett has spent the past four years researching his book Bunker: Preparing for the End Times, which will be published in August. Underground skyscrapers and off-grid bunkers: inside the world of preppers 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z A few modest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can help scientists to share ideas with their peers more effectively, say geographer Scott St. George and Nature climate-science editor Michael White. Daily briefing: Cruise ship coronavirus outbreak gave scientists ‘an ideal experiment’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Statisticians will rub elbows with geologists, geographers will mix with chemists. A welcome, timely gathering of scientists in Seattle 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Jean-François Bastin, an ecologist and geographer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has spent the past decade trying to answer that question. Scientists, activists planting trees to fight climate change 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Jean-Francois Bastin, an ecologist and geographer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has spent the past decade trying to answer that question. The audacious effort to reforest the planet: How trees can fight climate change 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “As a cultural geographer I focus on destination context, such as demographics, economics, geopolitics, history and resource management,” he said. Luxury travel: 50 wealthy tourists, eight countries ... and one giant carbon footprint 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z As a geographer, I have been interested in the role that craft breweries play in neighborhood revitalization, and how they contribute to quality of life for urban residents. Do craft breweries gentrify neighborhoods? It's complicated 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Roland Gehrels, a physical geographer at Britain’s University of York who specializes in sea-level studies and was not involved in this study, called the discovery a “fascinating find.” Scientists claim to find ancient seawall off Israeli coast 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Roland Gehrels, a physical geographer at Britain’s University of York who specializes in sea-level studies and was not involved in this study, called the discovery a “fascinating find.” Scientists claim to find ancient seawall off Israeli coast 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Confirming a human cause for climate change required the combined efforts of meteorologists, oceanographers and geographers, among others. Architecture, design and behavioural science need to get talking about sustainability 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z David Bowman, a fire ecologist and geographer and director of the Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, spoke with Science about the crisis. Massive Australian blazes will ‘reframe our understanding of bushfire’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “It’s not about 30 pesos; it’s about 30 years,” says Carolina Rojas, a geographer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, who supports the protesters. What the protests and violence in Chile mean for science 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Both are geographers, reflecting the new reality that the politics of place is becoming as important as class, race and gender in understanding the signs of turbulent times. How the megacities of Europe stole a continent’s wealth 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Stefan Grab, a geographer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, says that these records can, paradoxically, be easier to access than local ones. Scientists struggle to access Africa's historical climate data 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Tashpolat, fluent in Mandarin and Japanese, returned home to Xinjiang and established himself as a geographer and expert on desertification. A Uighur scholar facing potential execution is one of over a million detained by China 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z “The idea is nice, but it’s kind of foolish to plant trees in a desert,” says Troy Sternberg, a geographer at the University of Oxford, UK. China’s tree-planting drive could falter in a warming world 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z In June, in a lush valley at 4000 meters—more than two vertical kilometers below Chimborazo's summit—geographer Jeff La Frenierre stood waist deep in a concrete irrigation channel flowing with turbid water. Global warming has made iconic Andean peak unrecognizable 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Amazonian trees simply lack the necessary adaptations to survive the heat, says Ane Alencar, a geographer at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasília. Burned areas of the Amazon could take centuries to fully recover 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “This fire was massive,” said David Wahl, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey and one of the authors. Burning of Mayan City Said to Be Act of Total Warfare 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Last month, Arctic fires emitted more carbon dioxide than in all the Junes in the past nine years put together, says environmental geographer Thomas Smith. Daily briefing: 11 steps to organizing the perfect meeting 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z “The familiar maxim that the climate is always changing is certainly true,” noted geographer Scott St. George of the University of Minnesota in a commentary on the new research, also published in Nature. Current Warming Is Unparalleled in Past 2,000 Years 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Some researchers can get help from family members, says Kathryn Grace, a geographer at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who studies maternal and child health. Ways to juggle fieldwork with kids in tow 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z In this thought-provoking study, geographer Jacob Shell probes an unusual interspecies alliance: the relationship between people and the working elephants of Indonesia, Myanmar and India. Life’s innovations, the enigma of gravity, and how to feed 8 billion: Books in brief 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Camilo Mora, a geographer and environmental professor at the University of Hawaii, said in an email that the president is rejecting the conclusions made by scientists in his own government. White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony calling climate change ‘possibly catastrophic’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Research by geographer Mark Bonta, then at Pennsylvania State University, and his colleagues documents fire spreading by three species of raptors in Australian savannas. A Bit of Wildfire Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z In the succinct formulation of Davis, the L.S.U. geographer: “The Mississippi River was controlled; land was lost; the environment changed.” Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z A quick aside here: Goldsberry will never be the most famous geographer in basketball because a guy named Michael Jordan majored in geography at North Carolina. Kirk Goldsberry once mapped food deserts and flood data. Now his maps are changing the NBA. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Albert Arias, a geographer with the local government, told me that he had publicly criticized the selling of tickets as “a very bad solution,” adding, “It is acknowledging a problem by fencing off public space.” The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The geographer Jared Diamond is the bestselling author of a number of books on the vicissitudes of civilizations. Seven nations that survived apocalypse 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Records compiled by the historian and geographer Ian D Clark reveal that the massacre was a deliberate dawn attack on sleeping people. Murdering Gully: settlers killed 35 in Aboriginal camp, and threw bodies into the water 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z A geographer shared this interesting view of the world: Analysis | The Daily 202: Jay Inslee is building his 2020 campaign around a more pragmatic approach to tackling climate change 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Camilo Mora, a geographer and environmental professor at the University of Hawaii, said in an email that a single task force could not alter the findings of scientists across the globe. White House to set up panel to counter climate change consensus, officials say 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z If cities are products of collective labor, then gentrification, in geographer Ipsita Chatterjee’s phrase, is “the theft of space from labor and its conversion into spaces of profit”. New York's dance with Amazon shows us how to fight for a city's future | Samuel Stein 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z “His map has become an icon and Snow himself an almost mythic figure,” writes medical geographer Tom Koch in Cartographies of Disease. The Topography of Disease 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Harm J. De Blij, a geographer and editor of National Geographic magazine, lived in the home, as did Chase Untermeyer, a former U.S. ambassador to Qatar and a director of Voice of America. This Georgetown house started off as two separate dwellings 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z “If the hike in the price of fuel triggered the yellow vest movement, it was not the root cause,” said the geographer Christophe Guilluy. How hi-vis yellow vest became symbol of protest beyond France 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z A decade later, a British geographer observed that railroads had shifted the locus of global power landward into the interior of the vast Eurasian continent. Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Comparing the four countries — Britain, France, Italy and the United States — Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer who has studied the demographics of the “left-behinds,” said “the sociology of the people in revolt is the same.” How France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ Differ From Populist Movements Elsewhere 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In contrast, geographer and historian Jason W. Moore contends that the Capitalocene arose in 15th-century Europe with an economic system predicated on perpetual territorial expansion. The Term "Anthropocene" Is Popular--and Problematic 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Urban geographer Tom Slater points to a similar disappearing act within gentrification research. Amazon’s move will gentrify neighborhoods — at what social cost? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Gaillard, a geographer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, says Indonesia is right in taking control of post-disaster research. Tsunami scientists clash with Indonesian government over rules on foreign research 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z At this low ebb in his life, he tried to establish himself as an exploratory geographer by making the first recorded ascent of Mount Kenya. Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z But Australia's funnels are typically smaller and weaker than in the US, University of Queensland geographer Prof Hamish McGowan told The Australian. Tornadoes and hail damage Australian towns 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Haber opened the faucet for nitrogen to flow from the air to the living world,” wrote geographer Ruth DeFries. Our fertilizer is killing us. Here’s a fix 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Robust scientific literature now shows that there are significant differences between 1.5 and 2 degrees,” Adelle Thomas, a geographer from the Bahamas and also one of the report’s lead authors, told me. The Dire Warnings of the United Nation’s Latest Climate-Change Report 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The geographer Gilbert F. White, known as the father of floodplain management, wrote in 1942 that “floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man.” Humans Are Making Hurricanes Worse. Here’s How. 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z A physical geographer digs deep in frozen soils to fill gaps in maps. The world at their feet 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The Greek geographer Pausanias is often credited with authoring the first travel guide, his Description of Greece, sometime in the second century AD. How TripAdvisor changed travel 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “In mature, fairly dense areas, you get 30 tons of wood per hectare. Half of that is carbon,” said Gray Tappan, a geographer. Regreening Niger: How the magical gaos transformed the land 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Retreat, after all, will not mean drawing a line some distance inland from Maine to Florida and removing everything to the east, explains Bryan Jones, a geographer who models climate-induced human migration. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z From 1991 to 2004, the Attica region, which includes Athens and its surrounding vacation areas, lost 26 percent of its forest area, according to a study by Atlas, a group of local academics and geographers. In Aftermath of Greek Fires, Suspicion Combines With Grief and Recrimination 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The radical geographer and equality evangelist Danny Dorling tried to explain to me once why an algorithm could be bad for social justice. Algorithms are taking over – and woe betide anyone they class as a 'deadbeat' | Zoe Williams 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z His recommendation to the assembled geographers: “Dig now.” Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the ground beneath our feet 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Josh Lepawsky, a Canadian geographer and the author of “Reassembling Rubbish,” finds hope in a curious phenomenon: the growing re-export of e-waste from the developing world back to advanced countries that have greater recycling capacity. E-Waste Offers an Economic Opportunity as Well as Toxicity 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Starting about 30 years ago, the growing season in general around the Northern Hemisphere “rather abruptly changed to a new normal,” with earlier springs and later falls, said Mark Schwartz, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee geographer. Looking for signs of global warming? It’s all around you 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z As a geographer, I work with geospatial data, including satellite images. Should We Always Trust What We See in Satellite Images? 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The paper's lead author is Dr Matt Telfer, a physical geographer at the University of Plymouth. Methane ice dunes found on Pluto 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Facebook’s command of machine learning and cloud computing was also the main draw for Robert Chen, a geographer at Columbia University in New York City, who collaborates with the company to study global population distribution. Technology and satellite companies open up a world of data 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Several of the Society’s founders, Fry notes, were cartographers and geographers with close ties to government agencies that work with maps, such as the U.S. Explore 100 Years of National Geographic Pull-Out Maps 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z As a writer and urban geographer from the African diaspora who focuses on blackness in art and city life, I am constantly asked to justify my perspective. Why are white curators still running African art collections? | Teju Adisa-Farrar 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “If the climate warms, do we expect an increase in disturbance regimes?” said Jeffrey Q. Chambers, a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the Katrina study. Forests Protect the Climate. A Future With More Storms Would Mean Trouble. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Speculative geographers predicted a fabled River of the West, to the Pacific. Opinion | The Northwest Passage That Might Have Been 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z In November 2012, a team of expert geographers and speleologists ventured once again into the dangerous underground complex of Monte Kronio. Prehistoric Wine Discovered in Inaccessible Caves Forces a Rethink of Ancient Sicilian Culture 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The geographer Paul Starrs writes about the photograph in his essay “An Inescapable Range, or the Ranch as Everywhere.” Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Water withdrawals for irrigation from upstream rivers reduce the lake’s size, says Tom Perreault, a geographer at Syracuse University. The ecological catastrophe that turned a vast Bolivian lake into a salt desert 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z But economists and geographers are now questioning what the nature of their success means for the rest of the country. What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Mad Mac was a geographer, unintentional comedian, coach, pack mule and friend. 36 Greatest Caddies of All Time - Golf Digest 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “Clearly there is no relationship between the actual mapping and the spill of cyanide,” says Tom Veblen, a geographer at the University of Colorado Boulder who was Villalba’s graduate adviser. Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges over glacier survey “It was for the British that Jerusalem was so important — they are the ones who established Jerusalem as a capital,” said Prof. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, a historical geographer at Hebrew University. The Conflict in Jerusalem Is Distinctly Modern. Here’s the History. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In a paper just published in Geology, Graeme Swindles, a geographer at the University of Leeds, suggests that it will—eventually. Why shrinking glaciers could mean more volcanic eruptions 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The root cause of such disasters is often more political than technical, says Erica Schoenberger, a geographer at Johns Hopkins University. The World Needs Copper. Does It Need This Controversial Mine? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The effort involved 63 researchers from two dozen institutions worldwide, including climate scientists as well as ecologists, geographers, economists, engineers, mathematicians, political scientists and experts who study food, transportation and energy. Climate change fueling disasters, disease in ‘potentially irreversible’ ways, report warns 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The posters appear in a new book, The Red Atlas, by Davies and Alexander Kent, a geographer at Canterbury Christ Church University. Secret Soviet Posters Demystify Map Symbols 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z “Someone in Nairobi is no longer constrained by the local labour market,” says digital geographer Mark Graham of the University of Oxford. The shape of work to come 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z “Storms shape the history of these places,” said Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, a geographer and author of “Island People: The Caribbean and the World.” Their island homes wiped away in the hurricanes, Caribbean residents wonder: Should we go back? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z They were looking for a legendary temple to the Goddess Artemis, one of the most widely-venerated deities of Ancient Greece, as described by the geographer Strabo, who died early in the 1st century CE. Long-lost Greek temple mystery solved 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z In “Where the Animals Go,” geographer James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, a former design editor for National Geographic, showcase some of the latest information on animal movement gleaned from these new technologies. An elephant who texted for help and other tales of animals on the move 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Martin W. Lewis, a geographer at Stanford University, said Mr. Draper’s plan was striking in its seeming disregard for regional identities. California Today: A Proposal to Split California Into Three 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z This is just one of the more than 300 map-related inventions uncovered by Mark Monmonier, a geographer at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. These Are the Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “There are strong theories that guide the expectation of climate change being comparatively higher in mountains than at sea level,” Nicholas Pepin, a geographer at the University of Portsmouth, told Climate Home. Climate change threatens ‘Himalayan Viagra’ fungus, and a way of life 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z This led him to assemble a team of physicists, chemists, biologists, historians and geographers to investigate the matter, starting with an analysis of the buried trees’ annual growth rings. Events in Iceland explain years of famine in Europe’s Dark Ages 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Two feminist geographers are encouraging their colleagues to be more mindful about citing the research of white males because doing so contributes to “the reproduction of white heteromasculinity of geographical thought and scholarship.” Feminist geographers encourage colleagues not to cite research of white men 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z That’s a lot of work to confirm stereotypes, but it has the advantage of capturing quickly what pollsters and cultural geographers could only speculate over with census data. Twitter is useful for many things—including (unexpectedly) for studying dialects 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z But geographer J Dwight Hines writes that the post-industrial middle class is the largest and most influential subset of newcomers, who “present the most profound challenge to preexisting ways of life”. The new west: why Republicans blocked public land management 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Until 20 years ago, the creation of voting districts by the independent Boundary Commissions was a largely apolitical process, according to geographer Ron Johnston at the University of Bristol, UK. The mathematicians who want to save democracy 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But it took more than two days to reach the experienced speleologist and geographer, who was left sitting in the dark alone. Mallorca diver survives 60 hours in air bubble - BBC News 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z There is no reliable combined measure of sprawl, and many geographers shy away from using the term because of its negative connotations. Where is the world's most sprawling city? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z And last, Twitter can capture changes that would take traditional researchers—whether geographers or dialectologists—so much time that they might miss quick-moving developments. Twitter is useful for many things—including (unexpectedly) for studying dialects 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Sometime around 330 B.C., a Greek geographer and explorer by the name of Pytheas left what is now the city of Marseilles and set sail for the Far North. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z French geographers calculate that, after Brexit, the union’s midpoint will shift to a farmer’s field some 70 kilometers to the south east. Where will the EU's real centre be after Brexit? - BBC News 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z A geographer at Emory University, Page is a rarity in Atlanta: someone with family roots here that date back several generations. Atlanta Has Fan Clubs. Now It’s Going to Play Some M.L.S. Games, Too. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Arieli, the political geographer, said Israel could keep 80 percent of its West Bank settlers within its borders by swapping territory equal to about 4 percent of the West Bank. Is 2-State Solution Dead? In Israel, a Debate Over What’s Next 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z There is no widely accepted definition of a continent, and geographers and geologists differ on the question. Geologists spy an eighth continent: Zealandia 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z You’ll know far more of the city than any geographer, historian, zoologist, botanist, policeman or lover. If you were an elephant … 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z At least one geographer, Zach Taylor, argues the isolation and resentment these enclaves can cause helped fuel the populist rise of Toronto mayor Rob Ford. No hosers here, eh? Canadian stereotypes debunked 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z "But there's more to the wall than that," says William, who trained as a geographer. One man's mission to walk Great Wall of China with a drone - BBC News 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “Tongzhou is sort of looked at as a testing ground,” said Thomas Hahn, a University of California, Berkeley, adjunct professor and a geographer who researches Chinese urban-planning issues. A Housing Frenzy Bedevils Beijing 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Soil geographer Ian Simpson of the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom says previous studies overestimated the Norse contribution to erosion in Greenland. Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Our view of cities is perilously partial, argues urban geographer Stephen Graham. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “The first ones were traveling into the unknown,” said Alvaro Montenegro, a geographer and climatologist from Ohio State University. How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Before Charles Darwin, the Prussian geographer was the first to establish an understanding of ecosystems in the early 1800s. California Today: A New Target of Gun Control Advocates — Bullets 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Montana State Library geographer Gerry Daumiller started looking into the issue after the two proposed Lone Coyote Lake as the moniker to mirror Lone Coyote Trail, the road where they live. Moon Lake? Mohn Lake? Geographer probes mystery of lake name 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Proctor continued to produce more maps, and other areographers, or Mars geographers, followed in his style. What Mars Maps Got Right (and Wrong) Through Time “It will bring reefs on par with how we look at the terrestrial environments,” said Stuart Phinn, a geographer and director of the University of Queensland’s remote sensing research center. Scientists Inspect the Great Barrier Reef, From 28,000 Feet Above 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z According to the cultural geographer Kenneth Foote, the ability to openly confront death is critical to the public process of returning a site like Sandy Hook to regular civic use. Can You Erase the Trauma From a Place Like Sandy Hook? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “Displacement from fires and floods is not a new phenomenon,” said Alex de Sherbinin, a geographer at Columbia University’s Earth Institute who focuses on the human implications of a changing planet. ‘A changing climate is and will continue to put people out of their homes’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The start of the new epoch is 1610, the geographers say, based on a complex narrative covering the colonization of South America, introduced diseases, depopulation, forest regrowth, transcontinental trade, species exchange and pollen counts. Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Over all, there has been a slight pickup in employment and population in the central core of big cities, said Joel Kotkin, an author and urban geographer at Chapman University in California. Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z For the girls, the impetus wasn’t to prepare them to be cartographers, or even geographers. 19th-Century Schoolgirls Were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps “We wanted to cast some light on those legends and restore the fame of the city of Szigetvar,” said Norbert Pap, the geographer and historian who has been leading the excavation. Townspeople and Treasure Hunters in Hungary Search for a Sultan’s Buried Heart 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Interpretations of the term vary, but most see the cognitive map as “a map-like representation within the ‘black box’ of the nervous system”, says geographer Rob Kitchin. Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains? 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Patricia Pintos, a geographer at the National University of La Plata, doesn’t think this happened by accident. Story of cities #46: the gated Buenos Aires community which left its poor neighbours under water 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z To the undiscerning eye, social geographer Bradley Garrett is your quintessential armchair Oxford scholar. Meet the Place Hackers 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “The older is a flat map or a globe map,” the geographer Arthur Robinson once observed, “the more likely it is to be called an art object.” Letter of Recommendation: U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Clusters with relatively few companies may benefit in particular from connections beyond their borders, says Rune Dahl Fitjar, an economic geographer at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Collaboration: The geography of discovery : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Beginning in the early 1970s, Tolman’s cognitive map concept, or how we perceive locations in our mind’s eye, experienced a renaissance when it was adopted by psychologists, geographers, architects and anyone interested in wayfinding. Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains? 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Born shortly after George Washington’s inauguration as president, Morse was the eldest son of Josiah Morse: early America’s leading geographer and the minister of a venerable Congregationalist church in Massachusetts. What the Digital Age Owes to the Inventor of Morse Code 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Bradley Garrett is a social geographer and a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Meet the Place Hackers 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z When the shaking, faint but jarring, began, Daniel Orellana, a geographer at the University of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, was at home with his wife and daughter. Creating a Map to Navigate the Post-Earthquake Landscape in Ecuador 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The classic example is Silicon Valley, “the mother of all clusters”, says Martin Kenney, a geographer at the University of California, Davis. Collaboration: The geography of discovery : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z According to Professor Susan Parnell, a geographer at the University of Cape Town, there is a “myth of segregation” in many portraits of apartheid. Story of cities #19: Johannesburg's apartheid purge of vibrant Sophiatown 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z West-coast hedonism may be a third factor, suggests David Ley, a geographer at the University of British Columbia. Steeples for sale 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Carballea, a university-trained geographer, believes the Rolling Stones concert trumps Mr. Obama as the more important event of the week. Rolling Stones Fans in Cuba to Get Some Satisfaction 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z "We have students with all kinds of undergraduate degrees, like anthropology and sociology. We've even had geographers and journalists." Make a Career Switch to Health Care With Grad School 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z According to the Greek geographer Strabo, while the Greeks build beautiful cities, the Romans focus on “paving their roads, constructing aqueducts, and sewers.” The rise of the urbanite : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “The dockyard has been part of the problem in Portsmouth almost for ever,” says Nicholas Phelps, an economic geographer at University College London. Pompey’s predicament 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z If there is one thing most native Londoners pride themselves on, it is their skill as geographers. London Mayor Election 2016: What is a Londoner? - BBC News 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z As evidence, he cites the ancient Greek geographer Strabo, who allegedly mentioned the wall in a book written 2,000 years ago. A mysterious skull adds new twist to old legend of Kabul’s ‘cruel king’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Gore, a geographer for the Bureau of Land Management, says he chose to live in Temple Hills 15 years ago because of what he had read about the area’s potential. Prince George’s community hopes for GSA ‘game-changer’ to spur growth 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z She is leading a group of experts including pediatricians, epidemiologists, developmental specialists, toxicologists, educators, geographers and county and state health officials. This pediatrician is working to save 9,000 young lives in Flint, Mich. 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But geographer Matthew Mitchelson has argued that MLK streets are not economically worse than Main Streets, they’re just different – boasting more gift shops than bail bondsmen, more insurance companies than liquor stores. Cleaning up the streets that bear the name of his hero – Martin Luther King 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “It is a grand scale of symbolic rewriting of the landscape,” said Derek Alderman, a geographer at the University of Tennessee who is mapping Confederate symbolism nationwide. New Orleans considers removing Confederate monuments 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “People expected China, or Chinese companies, to be the last to retrench workers,” said Godfrey Hampwaye, an economic geographer at the University of Zambia and an expert on relations between China and African countries. China’s Slowdown Tarnishes Economic Boom in Copper-Rich Zambia 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Slowly over the coming day the 89 dead began to be identified — students, teachers, a tax inspector, a geographer, record-label staff, an NGO volunteer, a journalist, a lawyer, mothers, fathers, wives and husbands. 'It looked like a battlefield': the full story of what happened in the Bataclan 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Throughout history, the night has been, in the words of geographer Tim Edensor, time for “transgression, fantasy and experimentation”, when the public comes out to play. Cities at night: why our right to use public spaces after dark is under threat 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But work by Hervé Le Bras, a French geographer, shows that recent gains include places where immigrants are scarce. Phantom menace 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Kirsty Duncan, a medical geographer at the University of Toronto, will be the first to hold the job. Canada creates science-minister post 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z But this had an unintended consequence, as Gilbert White, an obscure, 31-year-old government staff geographer, wrote in 1942 in his Ph.D. dissertation: “Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man.” Cities Built to Endure Disaster 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z You open the book with the words, “As a child I didn’t want to be a doctor; I wanted to be a geographer.” A Doctor Explores the Surprising Geography of The Human Body 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The company hired Stephen Lonergan, a Canadian geographer from McMaster University, to study the effect of climate change there. What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “You have to conclude there has been an anthropogenic contribution to the decline in rainfall,” says Chris Funk, a research geographer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ocean sediments suggest dry future for Horn of Africa 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The story of how a mild-mannered, church-going, happily married geographer with a professional interest in migratory song birds became a folk-singing hero is an unusual one – but Turner is not alone. How a Canadian scientist became the voice of the anti-Harper movement 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Richard Campanella, a geographer at the university, calls the area the “white teapot” of New Orleans—“teapot” for the way it follows the curving path of the Mississippi. What Social Scientists Learned from Katrina 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z A geographer displays one of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s manuscripts. These 7 Famous Conservationists Also Hunted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Seph Lawless ***** As many historians, planners and geographers have pointed out, New Orleans is not unique, despite its residents’ best efforts to convince themselves otherwise – both before and after Katrina. 10 years after the storm: has New Orleans learned the lessons of Hurricane Katrina? 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Nick Reid, a linguistics expert from the University of New England in Australia, co-authored the paper with marine geographer Patrick Nunn from the University of the Sunshine Coast. Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Samuel Munoz, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his colleagues based this finding on analysis of sediments from Horseshoe Lake, just 5 kilometres from Cahokia. Floods might have doomed prehistoric American city 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The World War II veteran has traveled the world, taught countless students and despite his retirement this spring, says he’ll never stop being a geographer. U of Minnesota braces for wave of faculty retirements 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A geographer displays one of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s manuscripts. These 7 Famous Conservationists Also Hunted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The family lives in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Erik is a conservation scientist and consultant and Rona is a geographer and sustainability specialist. Beware! A vampire squirrel lurks deep in the jungles of Borneo. 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Holly Gibbs, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says it is possible to identify some of the more successful policies. Stopping deforestation: Battle for the Amazon 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z For many poor countries, the debate is about social justice, says Petra Tschakert, a geographer at Pennsylvania State University in University Park who participated in the process. Global-warming limit of 2 °C hangs in the balance 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In the 1st Century BC the geographer Strabo wrote that people in Spain kept poison handy in case of need, as spies are supposed to do - and this he called "toxicon" alone. How we use the word toxic 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z A geographer displays one of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s manuscripts. These 7 Famous Conservationists Also Hunted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But as demand grew, the tech giant began limiting public access to its APIs in 2011 — and this allowed slightly more sophisticated open-source tools to flourish, says Oliver O'Brien, a geographer at University College London. Data visualization: Science on the map 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The study, by the University of Maryland, College Park, geographer Do-Hyung Kim and two colleagues, uses satellite imagery to examine how tropical forests in particular are faring. Tropical forests may be vanishing even faster than previously thought 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Alex de Sherbinin, a geographer with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network in Palisades, New York, had an idea: “What if we tell people to stop breathing?” It’s only a game, but even earth scientists struggle to defeat global warming 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Early in his career, he was a geographer for the Interior Department and an intelligence specialist at the Office of Naval Intelligence. Washington-area obituaries of note 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Valorie Crooks, a health geographer at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, said Canadians are often heading across the border to avoid the wait lists of their national healthcare system. Hospital hopes medical tourists will come to Idaho 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z "The people with the least intensive climate lifestyles are suffering the most," said geographer Jeffrey Bury of The University of California at Santa Cruz, who studies the social and economic impacts of glacier loss. Climate change impacts heat up UN talks in Lima 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “The people with the least intensive climate lifestyles are suffering the most,” said geographer Jeffrey Bury of The University of California at Santa Cruz, who studies the social and economic impacts of glacier loss. Climate change impacts heat up UN talks in Lima 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Observers are already seeing a longer dry season in places like subtropical Peru, said Kenneth Young, a University of Texas geographer who has studied the country for more than 20 years. Cocaine Will Survive Global Warming 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The other research slots were occupied by applied mathematicians, epidemiologists, political scientists and human geographers. Arizona's big bet: The research rethink 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But authorities such as German geographer August Petermann remained convinced that one needed only to break through a “girdle” of pack ice surrounding the open polar sea to gain ready access to the upper latitudes. Book review: “In the Kingdom of Ice,” polar voyage of USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides Some writers and geographers use “Greater Syria,” which preserves the distinction with the current state. Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z But the newly discovered long-distance events are changing that opinion, and biogeographers are increasingly stressing the role of improbable events and serendipity in shaping which species occur where. Tree hitched a ride to island 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “Often, it ends up in court,” said Lynn Highland, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey’s landslide program in Golden, Colo. Governments Find It Hard to Restrict Building in Risky Areas 2014-03-28T18:05:50Z Lynn Highland, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey, said Washington ranks with Oregon and California as the states with the most landslides. In a State Known for Landslides, a Deadly Mix of Loose Sediments and Heavy Rain 2014-03-27T01:11:01Z We need geographers to share their knowledge on whether the climate has become more or less livable as we’ve used fossil fuels. The Unscientific Consensus 2014-02-27T17:19:00Z I discovered a sizable infrastructure of geographers, geologists, and geodesists dedicated to ensuring that maps are accurate. What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? 2013-11-11T17:15:00.470Z They also hope local and family historians, historical geographers, history societies and researchers will use the resources for their research. Effort to understand old texts 2013-09-02T23:13:01Z To map the mountains of East Tennessee, the Coast Survey turned to Arnold Guyot, a Swiss geographer who had moved to the United States in 1848 and had spent every summer hiking the Appalachian range. Opinionator: Mapping Appalachia 2013-06-06T18:11:01Z For the Greek geographer Ptolemy, a perfect world map showed the Mediterranean at its centre, because anywhere beyond it was "barbaric", and in contrast to Greek culture, "uncivilised". Google, there's no such thing as 'the perfect map' 2013-05-16T13:11:36Z Some biologists and geographers describe extension of this trend as the future; increasingly, we live on a cultivated planet. Can Endangered Animals Coexist with Big Ag? [Excerpt] 2013-02-22T19:15:00.507Z Keith Clarke, a geographer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and chairman of the report committee, suggests that interested scientists develop their skills in spatial thinking, mathematics and statistics. Geospatial shortage 2013-02-13T18:20:56.260Z In the 19th century geographer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury was the first to attribute the relatively mild climate of northwestern Europe to the Gulf Stream. New Simulations Question the Gulf Stream s Role in Tempering Europe s Winters 2013-02-11T12:15:00.213Z Michael Emch, a geographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argues that there will always be at least some intellectual overlap between different projects run by the same researcher. Funding agencies urged to check for duplicate grants 2013-01-30T18:20:58.527Z Diamond is a geographer at U.C.L.A. whose earlier books “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Collapse” became best sellers, offering sweeping — and brilliant — descriptions of how geography and environment shape the destiny of nations. ‘The World Until Yesterday,’ by Jared Diamond 2013-01-10T21:29:52Z Some, like geographer Erle Ellis, point out that “the history of human civilization might be characterized as a history of transgressing natural limits and thriving.” Do We Need a New Environmental Movement? 2012-12-18T10:50:22Z "In the Northeast, it's going to be a mixed bag," said Jackie Dawson, a geographer at the University of Ottawa and lead author of the study. Warmer Winters Threaten Smaller Ski Areas 2012-12-13T17:45:00.617Z “As progress to reduce emissions has slowed in most countries, there has been a turn towards adaptation,” says Jon Barnett, a political geographer at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Adapting to a warmer world: No going back 2012-12-05T15:21:02.450Z There is a term that geographers and urban planners are using now called infrastructure ecology, to describe the interdependency of our infastructures, relating to resilience, vulnerabilities. Dot Earth Blog: Mapping Gas Leaks from Boston's Aging Urban Pipes 2012-11-20T15:56:33Z “Export agriculture is transforming the region,” says Jeffrey Bury, a geographer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is a principal investigator on the Santa River project. Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers 2012-11-07T18:20:47.557Z The superimposition of allure, utility and danger led geographer Peirce Lewis to call New Orleans an "impossible but inevitable city" .... Dot Earth Blog: Lessons in Resilience from Hurricane Sandy 2012-11-03T01:02:40Z Five Polish geographers from Jagiellonian University in Krakow were invited to build the structure. Listed status for giant Scots map 2012-09-17T10:17:51Z French military geographers had explored the lakes in the early twentieth century but the area had since been forgotten by most foreign researchers. Science in the Sahara: Man of the desert 2012-08-15T17:21:20.943Z Yet he was arguably the most accomplished man who ever occupied the White House: naturalist, lawyer, musician, architect, geographer, inventor, scientist, agriculturalist, philologist. The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time 2012-07-25T14:05:00Z The crew, which pulls together hydrologists, geochemists, geographers and historians, mainly from the United States and Canada, is tracking the fate of glacial meltwater as it runs from the mountains down to the ocean. Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers 2012-11-07T18:20:47.557Z "Everyone more or less understands maps," said Mark Mulligan, a geographer at King's College London and one of the project's designers. Green Blog: A New Satellite Tool Tracks Deforestation 2012-06-25T18:33:11Z But we are on surer ground when we meet the geographer Strabo, who lived in the reign of Augustus. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z “It did get a little bit bumpy at the time,” says Phil Macnaghten, a geographer at Durham University, UK, who is overseeing an ethical and societal assessment of SPICE. Controversial research: Good science bad science 2012-04-25T17:20:31.727Z Dr. Markham, the geographer of the expedition, has long been here. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The rapid changes in the Andes “warrant a new kind of interdisciplinary, integrated study”, says geographer Bryan Mark of Ohio State University in Columbus, who is one of the principal investigators of the project. Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers 2012-11-07T18:20:47.557Z A woman of scientific inclination, she had learned much from my friend Amerigo, her geographer father. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z This part of the country has been systematically worked in former times, and it is here that the gold and silver mines are placed by the mediæval Arab geographers. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The town is framed by the Rwenzori Mountains, a glacial chain that the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy labeled the Mountains of the Moon, borrowing from the name the locals gave to the glowing, snowcapped peaks. Can Coffee Kick-Start an Economy? 2012-04-06T19:51:45Z From this spot British geographers measure the longitude. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z Modern geographers restrict the term Himalaya to that portion of the mountain region between India and Tibet enclosed within the arms of the Indus and the Brahmaputra. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z We begin with those of the Zeni brothers, from which the mists of obscurity and error have only recently been cleared, through the patient researches of a most careful student and geographer. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Correction: March 26, 2012 An earlier version misspelled the given name of the geographer Peirce Lewis as Pierce. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-26T19:22:21Z The writer was Dr. William Smith, of Philadelphia, and not, as has usually been thought, the geographer Thomas Hutchins. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Grant, Speke, Mason and Stanley were geographers, explorers before all else. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The ruination of the Lower Ninth has attracted geographers and ecologists from around the world, especially those in the burgeoning field of catastrophe studies — a field with a busy future. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z Among the guests was Dr. A. Petermann, the eminent geographer, to whose exertions in great part the inauguration of the expedition had been due. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The expedition will consist of only three persons—a geognort, who also determines the altitude, a geographer, and one assistant. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Yet Strabo, the geographer, remarked that the rocks upon the surface of the mountain looked as if they had been subjected to fire. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z But he was by no means a practical geographer, and the record of his travels loses greatly in value from the want of precise scientific data. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Blum is among a coalition of scientists — ecologists, ornithologists, botanists, geographers and sociologists — that is studying the Lower Ninth’s recovery to learn how man, and the environment, will cope with future catastrophes. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z Learned geographers, skillful navigators, and scientific men of broad and accurate study, have engaged in these enterprises with enthusiastic interest. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z It was a long shot, but the two connected and the Mongolian geographer said he knew of several such structures in the Gobi desert, the Telegraph reports. New Section of The Great Wall Discovered in Mongolia 2012-02-28T06:06:18Z It was agreed that Napoleon should take forty-six thousand men, a certain number of officers of his own selection, men of science, engineers, geographers, and artisans of all kinds. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The study "is pioneering in delving into the behavior of crop raiders," adds Lisa Naughton, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who focuses on interactions between human societies and animals. Old Elephants Make Bad Role Models 2012-02-22T20:00:44Z As a geographer, he has the luxury — or Cassandra’s curse — to contemplate the city’s future three decades, even three centuries from now. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z Even British geographers have not doubted our title to the territory in dispute. The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z The geographer of the expedition was Samuel Champlain. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Astronomers, geographers, and electricians freely acknowledge how much they are indebted to photography in making their celestial and terrestrial observations. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z From that time forward it was politically and geographically severed from the valley of the Nile, and the geographer could never again couple it with the land of Egypt. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Few cities have been more acutely influenced by their geographical location than New Orleans, which the geographer Pierce Lewis once called the “inevitable city on an impossible site.” The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z The very geographers of Great Britain had adopted the name which he had given to this river.” The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z It was too difficult for them, and they bungled sadly through it; for although, like the elder pupils, they were geographers and historians, they had not made much progress in the art of reading. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z It is more pleasant for pedestrians—for geographers it is not—to count by wersts than by miles. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Posidonius, the Rhodian geographer under whom Cicero studied, and who himself visited our island about 100 B.C., mentions "British baskets" as exported for use on the Continent. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Then, whether he failed or not, he would have brought back a hundred new facts of interest to the scientist and the geographer. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The confusion between Ethiopia and Farther India, which existed in the minds of the ancients and mediæval geographers, caused some writers to place the Lost Ten Tribes in Abyssinia. The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined 2012-01-22T03:00:22.903Z Upon my visit to this school, I must say I was surprised to find among the dirty ragged little negroes, which comprised it generally, a herd of geographers, historians, and grammarians. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The geographers have plotted the planet and have snared every conceivable no-man's-land in the meshes of realistic lines of latitude and longitude. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Patagonia, as it offered itself to my observation, more than answered the descriptions of geographers,—bleak, barren, desolate, beyond description or conception,—only to be appreciated by being seen. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z He was hardly a great geographer, though he added largely to the geographical knowledge of Northern Canada west of Hudson Bay. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z No wonder he wrote bitter words of the kid-glove geographers, who criticized him, and the press that jeered at him. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z “Well, doctor dear,” said Rory, “it is simply the belt, or zone, that geographers call the ‘Arctic circle.’” Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Bret Harte created a California that never existed, and Indian gentlemen, Caucasian and Hindoo, tell us that Kipling invented an army and an empire unknown to geographers and war-offices. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Animated by their faith, the Arabs became the greatest sailors, explorers, merchants, and geographers of the age. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z We gathered from the position of the country and sayings of the pilots and ancient geographers that this island is Traprobana, in which there are four idolatrous kings. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z To the geographer, it may be of interest, but not to the general reader. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z He seeks to combine the part of the geographer or intelligent traveller with his proper part as historian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z This delegation was headed by Dr. Jedediah Morse, a celebrated geographer and missionary. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z The Jesuits were not alone missionaries and orthodox educators, but they were scientists, geographers, financiers, and powerful and almost independent administrators among heathen peoples. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z One of the most complete of these is by that intrepid explorer and painstaking geographer, D’Almonte. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Then it is supposed that in the sixteenth century the famous geographer Mercator prefixed his collection of maps with the picture of Atlas supporting the world. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z From it the exact time is conveyed each day at one o’clock by electric signal to the chief towns throughout the country; British and the majority of foreign geographers reckon longitude from its meridian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The first written description of the Egyptian methods—and probably that reflecting the most ancient technology of crushing and concentration—is that of Agatharchides, a Greek geographer of the second Century B.C. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z The volume is of great interest, not only to the geographer, but to anyone who likes to read of true adventures.” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Of these Sabæans—to adopt the designation given to them by Greek and Roman geographers—more will be said presently. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z This is one of the very few points known to geographers where desert sands are advancing seaward, and here they rise to the greatest altitude to which sand grains can be carried by the wind. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The city became known to the little world of civilization, and was spoken of by Grecian geographers as "Ispola" and "Hispalis." Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Alluvial mining—gold washing—being as old as the first glimmer of civilization, it is referred to, directly or indirectly, by a great majority of ancient writers, poets, historians, geographers, and naturalists. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Shall I play geographer to those who are learned in the nomenclature of snobbism? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Jordanes also points out, with an air of superiority, that while the geographer Ptolemy did not know more than seven nations living on the island Scandza, he is able to enumerate many more. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z The hairy people are emphatically poor geographers, and have but little faculty for locating islands or any other places. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z "Population doubled while the economy grew by 15 times, cars by 16 times and fertilizer-use by sixfold," said geographer Ruth DeFries of Columbia at the same event. Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On? 2011-10-28T11:45:00.227Z This geographer, of about the 2nd century B.C., describes very clearly indeed the mining, crushing, and concentration of ore and the refining of the concentrates in crucibles with lead, salt, and barley bran. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z He was an astronomer, a geographer, and an astrologer. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z Boyle, a geographer who is chief executive of the U.K. European Research Heads Get a New Body 2011-10-21T18:39:29Z There are ten of us who were invited to speak, a disciplinary Noah’s ark: a psychologist, geographer, industrial ecologist, environmental ethicist, public health expert, Christian theologian, environmental activist, and Tibetan scholars. Dot Earth Blog: On Climate, Ethics, Cow Burps and the Dalai Lama 2011-10-21T15:47:25Z "There are a lot possibilities with this method," said researcher Marijn Hendrickx, a geographer at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites 2011-10-10T20:15:10.877Z Mines and minerals did not escape such an acute geographer, and the matters of greatest interest are those with relation to Spanish mines. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z But, sir, I am not so ill a geographer, or, to speak more properly, a chorographer, as not to know there is a passage by land from hence to Flanders. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z The next great geographer was Strabo, born in the northeast part of Asia Minor in the year 64 B.C. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z But that is because they are deceived by geographers jealous of the prerogative of the land. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z Opinion still differs as to the extent to which the geographer’s work should overlap that of the geologist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In a poem of Swift's, "On Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines:— "So geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-13T02:00:32.783Z At this time Champlain was thirty-six years of age, and had already distinguished himself as soldier, sailor, explorer, and geographer. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z After much waiting and much vexation, Columbus at last gained the interest of the Spanish king, Ferdinand, who referred the proposition to a council of his astronomers and geographers. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The journal "really deals with remote sensing used by geographers rather than by atmospheric scientists," says Trenberth. Journal Editor Resigns Over Contrarian Climate Paper 2011-09-02T22:43:13Z Greek geographers were translated into Arabic, and starting with a sound basis of theoretical knowledge, exploration once more made progress. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z He was the son of an Antwerp geographer settled in Paris, and early in life he evinced an ardent love of travel. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z The geographer tells us that the mouth of the Missouri is about seventeen miles above St. Louis, and that the mouth of the Yellowstone is near Buford, North Dakota. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The king referred the matter to a council of geographers, who reported against it. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z A more convenient place for discussing this point, which has been a lasting subject of dispute among geographers, would be in an account of Roggewein's voyage; but a few remarks here may be satisfactory. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z While Arab learning flourished during the darkest ages of European ignorance, the last of the Arab geographers lived to see the dawn of the great period of the European awakening. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The others were kitchen geographers, whose honor and fairness had been bartered to the Peary interests before the investigation began. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z An economic geographer at the University of Macedonia, he says Greece turns out a higher proportion of graduates than the European average. Young, educated Greeks angry at being locked out of their lives 2011-08-03T20:06:21Z For, even now, with the mind already prepared by the full and elaborate descriptions of geographers and travellers, they are beheld by the voyager, for the first time, with sensations of surprise and delight. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z He grew up to be a cartographer and geographer — the Geographer, in fact, at National Geographic, charged with helping direct map policies and projects. National Geographic?s map of Cuba is labor of love for Cuban American mapmaker 2011-07-25T22:47:29Z I could not well make out the situation of either, and, unluckily, I had no map with me but a road map of Germany, and it was evident that my heroine was no geographer. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Instead, armchair geographers, who were closely related to the Peary interests, were appointed as a "neutral jury," as follows: Henry Gannett, a close personal friend of Mr. Peary. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Dr. Franklin, who was the ablest geographer among the commissioners, made a triumphant use of these conquests; and we are thus indebted to George Rogers Clark for the acquisition of the Mississippi valley. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Their travels made known a vast region which had previously lain almost outside the reckoning of geographers, and gave to Europeans a fairly accurate as well as a fascinating account of the Far East. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z As for the other edifices, they are not worth mentioning, notwithstanding all the fine descriptions given of them by geographers. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z In these maps the systematic theories of the ancient geographers seem mixed with the doctrines of the Fathers of the Church. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The three armchair geographers, seldom out of reach of dusty book-shelves, passed upon these worthless observations. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z This stream appears generally to have been considered by geographers as the head of White river, which is accordingly, on most maps, made to originate at this place. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Ptolemy, the greatest of the ancient geographers, made two fundamental errors, which most of the Arab and Christian scholars accepted. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Other boundaries than these have been given by geographers, but these boundaries are sufficiently established by official documents. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z It is remarkable to notice that the proofs then used by geographers of the sphericity of the earth are just those which we should use now. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z This society is a private organization used mostly for political purposes; for two dollars per year a college professor or a street-sweeper becomes with equal facility a "national geographer." My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The curious details of the "Brief Discourse" seemed worthy of the attention of the geographer, the naturalist, and of the inquiring general reader. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 2011-05-30T02:00:21.633Z The Armenians call it Massis or "Mother of the World," and old geographers held that it was the centre of the earth, an hypothesis supported by various ingenious calculations. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z General Background For nearly a century, historians, geographers, and anthropologists have attempted to solve the problem of locating Francis Drake's anchorage in California, but the opinion of no one investigator has been universally accepted. Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 2011-05-26T02:00:16.780Z It was broached, however, in another form by Edrisi, an Arabian geographer of the eleventh century, who, with many others, considered the earth to be like an egg with one half plunged into the water. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Figures may convince an armchair geographer who has a preconceived opinion, but to the true scientist with the many chances for mistakes above indicated there is no real proof. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z I am no theologian; and I fancy I must be a bad geographer, since I never knew of a nation which was not Israel when it had a mind to shed blood and to pray. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z This mythical Magellanic continent held its place, a subject of mystery and interest to every geographer, until Captain James Cook, the greatest of navigators, either ancient or modern, attempted its definition or solution. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z But let us ask, whence come our geographers, our astronomers, our chemists, our meteorologists, our ethnologists, and others, who have made their names illustrious in the domain of the Natural Sciences? The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The Grecian geographer speaks in this passage of a period when the most brilliant star in the neighbourhood of the pole was α of the Dragon. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z For this reason, and for others which we will presently show, this whole idea of proof by figures as devised by Mr. Peary and the armchair geographers, falls to pieces. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z What geographers recognise as deeply dissected plateaus, so extremely rough that they pass for mountain ranges, do occur on the western border of the continent, however, and will be described later. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Hence many geographers concluded that the Antarctic regions were ice-covered seas, either totally or in greater part. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Geographers Had Calculated 81% Chance That Osama Was in Abbottabad 2011-05-02T22:56:54Z Not to worry, though, the nation’s geographers say. This Land: Don?t Worry, Census Says, But the U.S. Is Shrinking 2011-04-30T01:40:20Z The future of my children demands an exposition of the unfair methods of the arm-chair geographers in Washington. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z To the geographer North America presents an example of a region containing within itself essentially all of the elements necessary to a high industrial, social, educational, and ethical development of its inhabitants. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z At home he was named The Pathfinder; 236 abroad he received the Founders’ Medal from the Royal Geographical Society of England and many other well-deserved marks of appreciation from geographers. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z While he was not a geographer, and could not give latitude and longitude, yet he was a keen observer. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Champlain was the geographer and map-maker of the expedition, and was also on the search for ores. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z It is more pleasant for pedestrians--for geographers it is not--to count by wersts than by miles. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The ideal nation, from the point of view of the geographer, is one so situated that it is self-sustaining—that is, contains within its own domain all the conditions necessary for its life and growth. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Everyone spoke of the two cities in these terms—the geographers, the tourist guides, the inveterate Hermanitos themselves. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z These are only two examples among those Moslem geographers, whose work may have been brought to the Infant's notice during his visits to Ceuta. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II 2011-04-05T02:00:10.813Z The courtly literati, the academicians, and the librarians of Alexandria, were distinguished as critics, grammarians, geographers, or geometricians. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This part of his work has been much applauded by ancient writers for exactness and liveliness; and is frequently referred to, as the highest authority, by Strabo, Pomponius Mela, and other geographers. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z One of the most interesting facts to the geographer concerning the Eskimos is their peculiar distribution. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Julia Pongratz, a geographer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, Calif., has done a more detailed study of how people’s land use varied from place to place during just the last millennium. Climate Meddling Dates Back 8,000 Years 2011-03-30T18:43:00Z In contrast to Pierre L’Enfant’s grandiose national capital, the street commissioners adopted what Reuben Skye Rose-Redwood, a geographer and expert on the grid, described as “a physical representation of the Cartesian coordinate system.” 200th Birthday for the Map That Made New York 2011-03-21T00:25:00Z Conlin's job is part geographer, part roof climber, part engineer, part tech support and part community organizer. Bypassing the big guys to get broadband 2011-03-14T15:40:03Z I have never thought it worth while to look into the old geographers, and I daresay I have missed a good deal. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z To the geographer the Willamette-Cowlitz Valley seems scarcely distinct from the great depression farther north in the same valley-chain, which now holds the waters of Puget Sound, except that there is a low water-parting between. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z That at Philadelphia there be always at least seven members, viz. a physician, a botanist, a mathematician, a chemist, a mechanician, a geographer, and a general natural philosopher, besides a president, treasurer, and secretary. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Its time of greatest prosperity and importance was the period of the Abbasid caliphate, and Arabic geographers as late as A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It is in the indefinable that he revels; just as your geographer indulges every caprice of his imagination when laying down the limits of land and water at the Pole! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z As citizen cartographers, they're a part of the second trend, one that geographers say is becoming increasingly popular. Mapping the Food Desert 2011-02-28T22:45:05.453Z We have but little detailed information concerning this region, however, and the studies of modern geographers have likewise been meagre throughout all the coast-line farther south. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The surfaces of teeth were also studied using the same technology geographers use to map mountain ranges. Sharp teeth aid bats' fruit diets 2011-02-25T08:51:15Z The distinguished and lamented orientalist Klaproth has left behind him a large map of Central Asia, in four sheets, engraved at Paris by Berthe, the geographer. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The old Tripolis, of which the villages were absorbed by Megalopolis, is placed by the geographers in quite another part of Arcadia, near Gortyn, and due north of the western plain. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The Kong Mountains, though outlined upon the map, according to the celebrated English geographer, Keith Johnston, of the Royal Geographical Society, do not exist. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The great lesson to be learned by the geographer in these uninviting regions as they seem to most people relates to the way in which the rocks have been eroded. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z This expedition is by far the most important that has yet been sent out for the exploration of South America, and has already traversed a large portion of its central parts, little known to geographers. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Hecatæus, the Greek historian and geographer, who lived more than five hundred years before Christ, had not enlarged it much. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z This is no longer the fact, and geographers and other students of the subject all agree that the north pole must next be sought and found. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z They are first mentioned by Ma′sudi, the Arabic geographer of the 10th century, but merely as a celebrated place of pilgrimage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z ELAM, the name given in the Bible to the province of Persia called Susiana by the classical geographers, from Susa or Shushan its capital. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z This great inland sea is unknown to geographers. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z "It's a dream job for a geographer," she says. Special Report: Augmented hype? Mobile's next big thing 2011-01-21T07:44:49Z Our voyagers were now near the latitude assigned to the islands that were discovered by Quiros, and which, without sufficient reason, some geographers have thought proper to join to this land. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z Through his recommendation and that of the noted geographer, Karl Ritter, she was made an honorary member of the Geographical Society of Berlin. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z This angle is called by geographers the difference of longitude between the two places, and the student should note that the word longitude is here used in a different sense from that on page 36. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z It will make known people, the names of which were unknown to geographers. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Thus bird-study supports the geographer and ethnologist when they declare that Bass Strait is of comparatively remote formation. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z The unbelievably cruel Pobedonostzeff—who would gladly have used the thumb-screws on him—refers to him as "a learned geographer and sociologist." Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z He enjoyed the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, a native of the same district with himself, through whose influence he was appointed historiographer and geographer to the king. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z While Mr. Faler tends to register domains that struck his fancy at odd hours of the night, Jordan Zazzara of Long Island prefers the geographer’s method. Marijuana Web Names Snapped Up, in Case of Legalization 2010-10-28T00:06:00Z The Sahara," says he, "was for a long time deformed by the exaggerations of geographers, and by the reveries of poets. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Their annual journey supports the geographer in his surmise that Australia at no very distant date extended very much farther to the east. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z In his latest book, Injustice, economic geographer Danny Dorling records an radio interview from last year with one of the scriptwriters of the original Wall Street. Wall Street's Gordon Gekko is no longer a monster 2010-10-12T06:00:00Z “Global warming results in catastrophic weather events,” a Pakistani geographer and water specialist says. On Our Radar: Pakistan's Climate Debate 2010-08-17T17:07:00Z ARROWSMITH, the name of an English family of geographers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" This vast island continues to attract the attention of geographers and naturalists. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z It was clear to the geographers and traders of those days that an isthmian route westward offered great advantages to the routes via the Cape of Good Hope, Magellan Straits, or the problematical North-West Passage. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise Where geographers at one time were disposed to locate a solid, immovable, and massive ice-mantle, covering the northern extremity of our globe, we now find a continually breaking and shifting expanse of drift-ice. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 The ancient Greek geographers prior to Pytheas know nothing of them, and assign all the territories now known as Germanic to various Celtic tribes. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race It forms one of the three portions into which some geographers have divided Oceania, the other two being Malaysia and Polynesia. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis This fact will show that geographers can no longer mark the limit of vegetation by a rectilinear zone, but must accommodate such line to climatological and local conditions. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z The geographers of those days greatly exaggerated the eastern extension of Asia, with the result that the distance from Europe to China and India was underestimated by at least one-half. 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