Geographers on film: William L. Garrison

About

Geographers on film is a collection of recorded video interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers between August 1970 and the early 1990s, including scholars who have shaped the discipline. The interviews highlight the rapid transformations in technology throughout the 20th century that brought about vast changes in people's daily lives and in how geographers conducted research. In this interview, Professor Bill Garrison of the University of Pittsburgh discusses his education and early career, the influence of J. Russell Whitaker, and how his work as meteorologist has helped him with statistics. He talks about his work with Donald Hudson and Ed Ullman at the University of Washington, the quantitative revolution in geography and changes since the 1950s. He discusses his work with economists, and engineers and answers questions about the National Science Foundation Summer Institutes at Northwestern in the early 1960s. He talks about what he sees as the future of geography: the interrelation of complex information systems to support decision making; doing creative, action-oriented things which improve the environment in which we live.

Archive

Library of Congress, in Library of Congress

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Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.

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The Association of American Geographers holds the rights in the Library of Congress Geographers on Film collection. The online collection is free to use under the following conditions: credit to AAG; only non-commercial use; and only verbatim use (i.e., no derivative works). For other uses, please contact: Jenny Lunn Association of American Geographers 1710 16rth Street NW Washington DC 20009 jlunn@aag.org Suggested Credit line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Copyright Association of American Association of Geographers (AAG) (date), used with permission of the AAG

Credit

Library of Congress

Language

English

Country

United States

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