geographer

Definitions

Examples

• 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.

• “This is a really welcome advance which could help fire management,” says Jessica McCarty, a geographer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who wasn’t involved in the study.

• Van Collinsworth is a geographer, former wildland firefighter and the director of Preserve Wild Santee.

• Jacques Mourey, a geographer at the Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, has studied how rising temperatures have altered climbing conditions on the Mont Blanc mountain range over the past 40 years.

• I am a geographer, so I am used to seeing such games of academic hierarchy played above me, but I do worry when people resort to insulting their colleagues rather than admit that knowledge and circumstance have changed and reappraisal is necessary.

• “The megacity of the poor,” is how the urban geographer Nazrul Islam describes his hometown.

• The pioneering geographer Bernard Nietschmann once contended “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.”

• Lois Labrianidis, an economic geographer at the University of Macedonia, says that Greece is now facing a brain drain.

• Sanson's Atlas: a very large atlas by a French geographer in use in Swift's time.

• Anthony Frederick Busching, a distinguished Prussian geographer, died.

• The Ravenna Geographer gives a list of towns—the names of some of which being difficult to identify.

• Maps exhibiting changes in physical geography appertain to the geologist as well as to the geographer.

• In an unmarked grave lies the body of Richard Hakluyt, the great geographer, who died in 1616.