Cover And Forewords,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
Volume 30-2 Complete Issue,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Volume 30-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 30-2 Complete Issue
We Called Him "The Chief",
2025
Eastern Michigan University
We Called Him "The Chief", Ross Pearson
The Geographical Bulletin
This article in a brief way captures the personality of Professor Kenneth C. McMurry. Affectionately known as "The Chief" Professor McMurry began his teaching career at the University of Michigan in 1920 in a combined Department of Geography and Geology.
News From The Chapters 1987-88,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
News From The Chapters 1987-88, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
The Gamma Zeta Chapter of G.T.U. at Eastern Michigan University had a terrific year. The chapter was reactivated with bi-weekly meetings and 15 new initiates. Each meeting was highlighted by a student presentation of some personal experience of field sessions . Gerald Hopper discussed his experiences on an archaeological dig in southwestern Montana in October. Evelyn Gallegos who was with the Peace Corps talked about her experiences in Peru in November. Bob Merte spent a summer on an archaeological dig in Israel. He said it was hot-politically and weather-wise! Following Bob's December talk, Susan Odom presented a program on Mexico.
The Modernization Of Agriculture In The United Arab Emirates,
2025
United Arab Emirates University
The Modernization Of Agriculture In The United Arab Emirates, Saif S. Saif
The Geographical Bulletin
The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). with a population of 1.6 million is located in an arid landscape. That results in a scarcity of arable land and water. To understand the aims of the U.A.E. in adopting modern agricultural methods, current agricultural activity in the U.A.E. is examined. Also a background of traditional agricultural ways and tools are associated in order to comprehend the practices farmers must follow to secure their needs from their agricultural endeavors. This research focuses on the agricultural methods which have been promoted by the government. Modernization of agricultural methods has achieved higher production, and is related …
The Climatically Optimal Major League Baseball Season In North America,
2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Climatically Optimal Major League Baseball Season In North America, Brent R. Skeeter
The Geographical Bulletin
Mean daily temperature data are analyzed for the 15 coolest cities which have major league baseball teams and do not have domed stadiums. The temperature data are used to determine the optimal (warmest) portion of the year for the baseball season to be held. These data, along with several additional climatic variables, indicate that from an entirely climatic viewpoint, the major league baseball season should begin and end somewhat later in the year than is presently the case. Some possible implications of such a shift are discussed.
The Estimation Of Numerosity On Dot Maps,
2025
Salisbury State College
The Estimation Of Numerosity On Dot Maps, Christine L. Butler
The Geographical Bulletin
An important concern for cartographers is in making maps that convey information accurately and efficiently. Because the dot map is a popular method of portraying qualitative data, it is necessary to know how effective the symbolization is in eliciting the desired intellectual responses. This paper investigates whether dot numerosity differences are over or underestimated in a purely map context. An experiment was designed to determine if dot numerosity differences are over or underestimated or if they are perceived accurately. The results of the test indicated that for an area with a given number of dots, comparisons made to areas with …
Introductory World Geography: A View From The Otherside,
2025
Eastern Michigan University
Introductory World Geography: A View From The Otherside, James Hisey
The Geographical Bulletin
This paper investigates the perceptions students have about world geography. Fifty-three students were asked to comment on their ideas of the importance of geography and how they would integrate the excitement and fun of geography into their teaching careers. The basic idea was to have students express their view on the content and relevance of basic regional geography. After a semester of exposure to the world, even at a basic, introductory level, the importance of geography is almost a moot question. Many future teachers noted several diverse ways of utilizing geographic techniques into their teaching. Students with different career goals …
Editorial Comments: Some Thoughts On Theregional Revival,
2025
Eastern Michigan University
Editorial Comments: Some Thoughts On Theregional Revival, James R. Mcdonald
The Geographical Bulletin
In the late 1980s, Regional Geography-in its classic sense-is enjoying a sensational revival in American higher education. Courses in "World Regional Geography," or some equivalent title, are recording "standing room only" enrollments from coast to coast, while more specialized upper-division courses (North America, Europe, etc.) are attracting students in numbers not seen for 20 years. Is this an enduring or a transient phenomenon; and what, in any case, does it imply for Geography as a profession and a "serious" subject?
Cover And Forewords,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
Volume 31-2 Complete Issue,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Volume 31-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 31-2 Complete Issue
News From The Chapters 1988-1989,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
News From The Chapters 1988-1989, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
The 1988-89 academic year was another award winner for several Beta Psi members. Phil Brink, Craig Ackerman, Brad Camp, Laura Haggerty, Malcolm Ponte, and Andrew Norman were selected to participate in the Kansas State University Community Service Program. They each received a summer stipend and a $400 scholarship. Barbara Houser received the 1989 LaBlanc Outstanding Undergraduate Major Award. Malcolm Pete, Margaret Clark, Craig Raborn, and Ann Hinterleitner received a K.S.U. Student Government Association/GTU Scholarship. Dale Woodyard was a recipient of an Arts and Sciences Dean's Scholarship. The Huber Self Geography Scholarship was awarded to Craig Hoffman. Leslie Duram was awarded …
Research Needs In Human Geography,
2025
University of Kentucky
Research Needs In Human Geography, Stanley D. Brunn
The Geographical Bulletin
Scholars need to ponder research themes and directions for future human geographics and for those studying human geographics of the future. Geographers in the next century will continue to study familiar themes, including landscapes, environments, regions, diffusions, interactions, and places at all scales (personal to extraterrestial) within social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. Ten research themes are suggested for future inquiry. These include internationalizing economic geography, information and communications, timespace convergence, networks and networking, administrative organization and reorganization, postindustrial economies and societies, quality of life and welfare issues, including survival, and the human intellect and spirit. Pioneering research in these …
Population Distribution By Religious Affiliation: Terrorist Activity In Northern Ireland,
2025
Kent State University
Population Distribution By Religious Affiliation: Terrorist Activity In Northern Ireland, Thomas M. Michael, Michael L. Kelsey
The Geographical Bulletin
The districts of Northern Ireland are well defined in identifying where people live according to their religious affiliation. Patterns emerge which enable generalizations to be made about where people reside depending upon whether they are classified as Protestant or Catholic. The purpose of this research is to ascertain how terrorist incidents are associated with population distribution by religious affiliation for the past two decades on a district by district basis. It is the general contention that terrorist activity occurs where there is a mixture of Catholics and Protestants. Shifts in population distribution correspond to changes in the spatial distribution of …
Wetland Heritage Of The Upper Great Lakes: An Appreciation,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Wetland Heritage Of The Upper Great Lakes: An Appreciation, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
It is doubtful if any resource has been so abused and at the same time used as the earth's wetlands. In spite of an anti wetland prejudice, the resource has been utilized by Native Americans, fur traders and settlers. This investigation reveals that wetlands in the upper Great Lakes were not areas to be avoided but rather attractive resources to be exploited. Wetlands provided dietary and agricul tural resources, aesthetic settings and have contributed significantly to conser vation awareness. Vendable and eco nomic values recognized in the last few years are yet additional services these liquid assets provide.
Our Mental Atlases,
2025
University of Minnesota
Our Mental Atlases, John Fraser Hart
The Geographical Bulletin
A distinguished chemist once said to me, "Good science is good fun; if it's not good fun, it's probably not good science either." His remark has remained lodged in my memory, and it has often troubled me, because so much of the fun seems to have gone out of geography, especially for many geographers who did their graduate work in the 1960s and 1970s, who are pathetically eager to be recognized as scientists.
Locational And Morphometric Characteristics Of Landslide Deposits, Canyonlands National Park, Utah,
2025
University of Georgia
Locational And Morphometric Characteristics Of Landslide Deposits, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, David R. Butler, Joseph W. Nicholas
The Geographical Bulletin
Morphology and site characteristics of 512 landslide deposits were examined by means of a geologic/topographic map of Canyonlands National Park in an attempt to explain variations in deposit size and location. Eighty-nine percent of the landslide deposits mapped are associated with the Wingate Sandstone. Length of deposits was best explained by position beneath a scarp convexity (headland) or concavity (embayment), slope angle beneath the cliff, and cliff aspect. A t-test confirmed the importance of scarp geometry: headlands have the higher number of deposits beneath them, but landslide deposits beneath embayments are significantly longer and somewhat larger in area, suggesting that …
Cover And Forewords,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
Volume 31-1 Complete Issue,
2025
Eastern Michigan
University
Volume 31-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 31-1 Complete Issue
Public Attitudes Towards Dredge Spoil Disposal On A Lake Michigan Beach: A Study Of Environmental Perception In Geography,
2025
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Public Attitudes Towards Dredge Spoil Disposal On A Lake Michigan Beach: A Study Of Environmental Perception In Geography, Robe Ramra
The Geographical Bulletin
Environmental perception has received only little attention from geographers although there are indications that its applicability and usefulness in geographical analysis is increasing. This current underdeveloped state of environmental perception in geography is attributed to reticense and apprehension among geographers, the absence of a well-developed methodology and a sound theoretical base, and problems in terminology, quantification, measurement and evaluation of environmental attitudes. An environmental perception study was conducted at Kewaunee, Wisconsin to determine beach-goers attitudes towards the disposal of unpolluted dredged material on an adjacent Lake Michigan recreational beach. The results of the questionnaire reveal favorable attitudes towards the project. …
