Glenn Thomas Trewartha

Glenn Thomas Trewartha (1896 – 1984)[1] was an American geographer of Cornish American descent.[2]

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a Ph.D. in 1924. He taught at the University of Wisconsin.[3]

He gave an address to the Association of American Geographers, "A Case for Population Geography." He also wrote about climate, explaining that the atmosphere was like "a pane of glass in a greenhouse... thus maintaining surface temperatures considerably higher than they otherwise would be."[4][5]

Awards

Works
  • "The earliest map of Galena, Illinois" Wisconsin Magazine Of History. Volume: 23 /Issue: 1 (1939–1940) [7]
  • A Reconnaissance geography of Japan, University of Wisconsin, 1934
  • Elements of geography physical and cultural, Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Vernor Clifford Finch, Mc Graw-Hill, 1942
  • Japan, a physical, cultural and regional geography, University of Wisconsin press, 1945
  • An introduction to climate, McGraw-Hill, 1954
  • Japan, a geography, Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin press, 1965
  • An introduction to climate McGraw-Hill, 1968
  • The More developed realm: a geography of its population, Editor Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Pergamon Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-08-020631-8
  • The Earth's problem climates, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-299-08230-7 [8]

See also

Trewartha climate classification

References
  1. "Wisconsin history:an annotated bibliography," Barbara Dotts Paul and Justus F. Paul, 1988, pg. 12
  2. Rowse, A. L. The Cousin Jacks, The Cornish in America
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Global Warming: From Theory to Fact". NPR.org. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. "Climate Change: Listeners' Questions". NPR.org. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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