Physical Geography 5 Edition Mason

Joseph A. Mason
Professor of Geography, College of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph A. Mason has printed dozens of publications and reviews each as a college member and as a member of Nebraska’s Conservation and Survey Division. An lively instructor, he has taught a broad array of programs on the school and graduate degree. Dr. Mason’s analysis facilities on eolian and hillslope geomorphology; loess stratigraphy/ sedimentology; pedology and soil geomorphology; paleopedology; Quaternary panorama evolution; and geomorphic response to Quaternary local weather change, with a geographic concentrate on the Nice Plains, northern China, the central Rocky Mountains, and the Higher Mississippi Valley.

James E. Burt
Professor of Geography, College of Wisconsin-Madison
The writer of two textbooks–Understanding Climate and Local weather, Sixth Edition (2012), and Elementary Statistics for Geographers, Third Edition (2009)–James E. Burt is the recipient of quite a few awards for excellence in educating, textbook authorship, and courseware improvement. Dr. Burt’s graduate coaching was in climatology and quantitative spatial evaluation, and he has lengthy had analysis pursuits situated on the intersection of bodily geography and geographic data science. His present analysis initiatives revolve round professional techniques modeling of the bodily setting and information discovery strategies for geospatial information.

Peter O. Muller
Professor of Geography and Regional Research, College of Miami
Peter O. Muller’s many works embrace The World At this time: Ideas and Areas in Geography, Sixth Edition (2012); Geography: Realms, Areas, and Ideas, Fifteenth Edition (2011); and Financial Geography, Third Edition (1998). Dr. Muller’s articles have appeared in quite a few journals together with The Skilled Geographer, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and American Quarterly. His analysis pursuits concentrate on the altering geography of america, notably new types of suburbanization. He’s coeditor of the journal City Geography, and has additionally served as educational manufacturing guide for the unique Annenberg/Company of Public Broadcasting video collection, The Energy of Place.

H. J. de Blij (deceased)
John A. Hannah Professor of Geography, Michigan State College
An undergraduate course in bodily geography was Hurt de Blij’s eye-opener. As a graduate scholar, he carried out subject analysis within the Swaziland (Africa) Lowveld, engaged on the speculation that this 120-kilometer-long, steep-sided valley is perhaps a southern spur of the good East African rift valley system (PhD, Northwestern College). Since then he has addressed subjects starting from continental drift to local weather change and from warmth summation in viticulture to rogue waves in oceans. His greater than thirty books embrace technical, textual content, and commerce titles and have been translated into Chinese language, Russian, Italian, and different languages. Within the media he vigorously promoted geography as indispensable to training, decision-making, and home and international coverage formulation.