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After graduation from the military academy, Lieutenant Mowry was sent to the West Coast and assigned to the Pacific Railroad Survey near the Columbia River, serving under Isaac Ingalls Stevens, the governor of Washington Territory and a fellow West Pointer. [1] During the winter of 1854–55 he served under Lieutenant Colonel Edward Steptoe in ...
A native and resident of Sweden, Hägerstrand was a professor (later professor emeritus) of geography at Lund University, where he received his doctorate in 1953. His doctoral research was on cultural diffusion. His research has helped to make Sweden, and particularly Lund, a major center of innovative work in cultural geography. [1]
1.9 Geography. 1.10 Interdisciplinary studies. 1.10.1 Area studies. 1.10.2 Ethnic and cultural studies. ... 6 Notes. 7 References. 8 External links. Toggle the table ...
Kory, 82, taught geography at Pitt-Johnstown for nearly 50 years, from 1971 to 2021. As professor emeritus, Kory has plans to teach courses occasionally and continue serving as editor of the ...
Trevor Barnes received his Ph.D. in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a thesis under the supervision of Eric Sheppard titled The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after Sraffa. Barnes began his career as a spatial scientist, but in recent years his interest has moved to the history of economic ...
Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.
Humboldt University of Berlin is named after von Humboldt and his brother Wilhelm von Humboldt. Carl Ritter (1779–1859), considered to be one of the founders of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works. [1]
Verasamy was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and attended Silfield Primary School in Wymondham, Framlingham College Junior School in Suffolk and King Edward VII School in King's Lynn, [2] where she studied A-level geography. She graduated with a BSc degree in geography from Brunel University in 2001. [citation needed]