geographer

[ jee-og-ruh-fer ]

/ dʒiˈɒg rə fər /

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a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.

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1535–45; <Late Latin geōgraph(us) (<Greek geōgráphos, equivalent to geō-geo- + gráphos a writer; see -graph) + -er¹

Van Collinsworth is a geographer, former wildland firefighter and the director of Preserve Wild Santee.
San Diego Has a New Board – and Hopefully a New Approach to Development|Van Collinsworth|December 17, 2020|Voice of San Diego
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.
How Climate Change Is Making the Alps More Dangerous|Agostino Petroni|October 23, 2020|Outside Online
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.
Coronavirus: Is The Cure Worse Than The Disease? The Most Divisive Question Of 2020|LGBTQ-Editor|October 12, 2020|No Straight News
“The megacity of the poor,” is how the urban geographer Nazrul Islam describes his hometown.
Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum|Joel Kotkin|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The pioneering geographer Bernard Nietschmann once contended “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.”
Should Google Be Mapping Tribal Lands?|Grace-Yvette Gemmell|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lois Labrianidis, an economic geographer at the University of Macedonia, says that Greece is now facing a brain drain.
Greece's Youth in Crisis||November 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Sanson's Atlas: a very large atlas by a French geographer in use in Swift's time.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Anthony Frederick Busching, a distinguished Prussian geographer, died.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The Ravenna Geographer gives a list of towns—the names of some of which being difficult to identify.
The Towns of Roman Britain|James Oliver Bevan
Maps exhibiting changes in physical geography appertain to the geologist as well as to the geographer.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology|J. E. Marr
In an unmarked grave lies the body of Richard Hakluyt, the great geographer, who died in 1616.
Milton's England|Lucia Ames Mead