Petra,originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō,is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jabal Al-Madbah,in a basin surrounded by mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC,and the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of their kingdom as early as the 4th century BC. Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence dating back to the second century BC,by which time Petra had become their capital. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
Nihoa,also known as Bird Island or Moku Manu,is the tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). The island is located at the southern end of the NWHI chain,296 km (160 nmi) southeast of Necker Island. Nihoa is the closest NWHI in proximity to the eight main windward Hawaiian Islands at approximately 240 km (130 nmi) northwest of the island of Kauaʻi. The island has two peaks,272 m (892 ft) Miller's Peak in the west,and 259 m (850 ft) Tanager Peak in the east. Nihoa's area is about 171 acres (0.69 km2) and is surrounded by a 142,000-acre (57,000 ha) coral reef. Its jagged outline gives the island its name,Nīhoa,which is Hawaiian for "tooth".
Luna Bergere Leopold was a leading U.S. geomorphologist and hydrologist,and son of Aldo Leopold. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1936;an M.S. in physics-meteorology from the University of California,Los Angeles in 1944;and a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1950.
The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.
Andrew Shaw Goudie is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology,dust storms,weathering,and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author,co-author,editor,or co-editor of forty-one books and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.
Robert H. Hewsen was an Armenian-American historian and professor of history at Rowan University. He was an expert on the ancient history of the South Caucasus. Hewsen is the author of Armenia:A Historical Atlas (2001),a major reference book,acclaimed as an important achievement in Armenian studies.
Sir Ronald Urwick Cooke,FRGS DL is a professor of geography and geomorphology who was vice-Chancellor of the University of York from 1993 to 2002.
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman was an American entomologist best known for his two multivolume series:Insects of Hawaii published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press and Australian Weevils published by Australia's CSIRO.
The Tyndall Range,commonly called The Tyndalls,is a mountain range that is part of the West Coast Range located in the Western region of Tasmania,Australia.
Professor Bernard John Smith was an English geomorphologist and a physical geographer. He was born in the English village of Beer in Dorset where he attended the local school until the family's relocation to London.
Sampat Kumar Tandon is an Indian geologist and a professor emeritus of geology at the University of Delhi. He is a former pro-vice chancellor of Delhi University,Sir J. C. Bose Chair Professor of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Bhopal and a D. N. Wadia Chair Professor of the department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur.
Bhupendra Nath Goswami is an Indian meteorologist,climatologist,a former director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). and a Pisharoty Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. He is known for his researches on the Indian monsoon dynamics and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences,and the National Academy of Sciences,India as well as The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth,Atmosphere,Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1995.
Eiju Yatsu was a Japanese geomorphologist who taught in Japan,US and Canada. He is best known for his contributions to weathering and 'rock control' in geomorphology.
Hālaliʻi Lake is an ephemeral lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau. During the rainy seasons,it becomes the largest lake in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located near the smaller Halulu Lake,regarded as the largest (non-intermittent) natural lake in the Hawaiian Islands.
Halulu Lake is a lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau. It is the largest (non-intermittent) natural lake in the Hawaiian Islands and ranks third in size after Hālaliʻi Lake and Keālia Pond which are intermittent bodies of water.
Judith Sheila McKenzie was an Australian archaeologist whose work primarily focused on the architecture of the ancient Middle East. At the time of her death,McKenzie was Associate Professor of Late Antique Egypt and the Holy Land at the University of Oxford and Director of the Manar al-Athar project,an open-access image archive of the Middle East. McKenzie was known in particular for her work on the architecture of Petra and Alexandria,having published lengthy monographs on each.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester is one of the oldest earth and environmental science departments in the UK. The Department takes roughly 100 new undergraduates and 140 postgraduates each year,and employs 90 members of academic staff,41 postdoctoral researchers,27 technical staff and 20 administrative staff.
Heather Viles is a Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University,Senior Fellow at Worcester College,and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Heritage,University College London. She is a Fellow of the British Society for Geomorphology.
Ashok Kumar Singhvi is an Indian geoscientist and former Dean of Physical Research Laboratory. His field of expertise is Geophysics,Quaternary Sciences and Quantitative Geomorphology.
Daniel Sui is a Chinese American geographer/GIScientist and currently serves as the senior president and chief research &innovation officer at Virginia Tech. Sui previously served as vice chancellor for research &innovation at the University of Arkansas –Fayetteville and division director for social &economic sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.
