Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1994- "Geography in Pennsylvania"
GEOGRAPHY: RECOGNITION AT LAST?
(pp. 3 - 11)
George A. Schnell
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, New York
INTERVIEW WITH E. WILLARD MILLER
(pp. 12 - 21)
REMEMBERANCES OF E. WILLARD MILLER
(pp. 22 - 26)
George A. Schnell
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, New York
DR. E. WILLARD MILLER REMEMBERED
(pp. 27 - 28)
Lee Hopple
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
A GEOGRAPHER REMEMBERS E. WILLARD MILLER
(pp. 29 - 32)
Burton 0. Witthuhn
Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois
GEOGRAPHY OFTHE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
(pp. 33 - 45)
Michael S. DeVivo
Department of Geography and Earth Science
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
GEOGRAPHY IN PENNSYLVANIA: CLARION UNIVERSITY'S CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
(pp. 46 - 50)
Robert R. McKay
Department of Geography-Earth Science
Clarion University
Clarion, Pennsylvania
GEOGRAPHY IN PENNSYLVANIA: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE STATUS OF HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY
(pp. 51)
Dennis R. Snyder
GEOGRAPHY IN PENNSYLVANIA: THE PENNSYLVANIA GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
(pp. 52 - 53)
Sandra Pritchard
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Geographical Society
West Chester University
West Chester, Pennsylvania
(pp. 54 - 76)
Danielle Sipes
Newville, Pennsylvania
William L. Blewett
Geography-Earth Science Department
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Abstract
This study examines the relative impacts of slope length and profile curvature (convex vs. linear vs. concave) on soil characteristics. Variations were analyzed for soils developed on shale in south-central Pennsylvania. Parameters measured for each horizon included pH, texture, horizon and solum thicknesses, color, organic carbon content, and bulk density. A horizon and solum were thickest on concave segments and thinnest on convex segments, which lacked a B horizon. Similarly, organic carbon content was greatest on concave segments. Texture also varied. Coarse fragment content was greatest at convex positions, and silt and clay content increased downslope. Finally, bulk density decreased in the A horizon as distance downslope increased. These variations reflect the surficial processes dominating each site. Increased infiltration has also contributed to greater soil development in concave positions, and selective removal and deposition has produced a finer texture with increasing distance from the summit.
NEW WAYS OF MAPPING OLD INFORMATION
(pp. 77 - 102)
Daniel Dorling
Department of Geography
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Abstract
This paper demonstrates how new visualization techniques are being used to analyze the results of British censuses and mortality, election and employment records. The purpose of analyzing these statistics is to show how communities have developed over time and to explore how the different facets of life in Britain, which these statistics reflect, may be geographically related to one another. The argument for developing these new techniques is that complex questions concerning spatial change across many aspects of society can only be answered in a trivial manner by conventional quantitative techniques. This is because the nature of the relationships are unlikely to be simple enough to be presentable in tables or by equations. Detailed maps are needed to show how different processes occur in different places while global patterns need also to be seen without generalizing out local detail. Neither traditional thematic mapping nor commercial geographic information systems can do justice to the wealth of data that has become accessible to researchers in recent years.
COSACKHOOD: NO SIMPLE ROAD TO REVIVAL
(pp. 103 - 110)
Sergei Ivanov
Correspondent, Republican Weekly
Moscow, Russia