George Jobberns
New Zealand geographer
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George Jobberns's Degrees
- Bachelors Geography University of Auckland
- PhD Geography Victoria University of Wellington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Jobberns was a New Zealand geographer and educator. Born in 1895 at Te Moana near Geraldine in the foothills of South Canterbury, New Zealand, Jobberns taught the first Geography I course at Canterbury University College in 1934. In 1937 he was appointed lecturer-in-charge of the first independent Department of Geography in New Zealand and in 1942 was elected to the first chair of Geography in New Zealand. On his retirement in May 1960, he was made Professor emeritus of the University of Canterbury. In the 1963 New Year Honours, Jobberns was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
George Jobberns's Published Works
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- OF MANY THINGS (1959) (30)
- GEOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT1 (1945) (16)
- Pioneer Geographer and Explorer WILLIAM COLENSO; PRINTER, MISSIONARY, BOTANIST, EXPLORER, POLITICIAN: HIS LIFE AND JOURNEYS. By A. G. Bagnall and G. C. Petersen. (1949) (4)
- NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHER:THE MAINTENANCE OF NEW ZEALAND'S GREEN MANTLE (1952) (1)
- GEOGRAPHERS IN THE UNIVERSITY (1956) (1)
- The Earth and Human Action: MAN'S ROLE IN CHANGING THE FACE OF THE EARTH (1958) (1)
- A TEXTBOOK OF GEOMORPHOLOGY: LANDSCAPE AS DEVELOPED BY THE PROCESSES OF NORMAL EROSION. By C. A. Cotton. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 1948, pp. 509. (1949) (0)
- GEOGRAPHIC NOTEBOOK:GEOGRAPHERS IN THE UNIVERSITY (1952) (0)
- Our Contemporaries (1918) (0)
- Brave New World:WORLD RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES. By Erich W. Zimmermann (1952) (0)
- R. O. BUCHANAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (1974) (0)
- Of Sheepmen and their Country:THE EARLY CANTERBURY RUNS. By L. G. D. Acland (1952) (0)
- GEOGRAPHIC NOTEBOOK: GEOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHERS IN THE UNIVERSITY (1949) (0)
- New Zealand: Inventory and Prospect@@@This New Zealand (1958) (0)
- The Atlantic world (1962) (0)
- Early Essays in Geomorphology: NEW ZEALAND GEOMORPHOLOGY. Reprints of selected papers 1912–1925. By C. A. Cotton. (1956) (0)
- The Pacific world (1960) (0)
- THE MARLBOROUGH COAST ROUTE OF THE SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY (1946) (0)
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