pyrogeographer

English

Etymology

From pyro- +‎ geographer.

Noun

pyrogeographer (plural pyrogeographers)

1. Someone who studies pyrogeography.
   • 2021, María Amparo Escandón, L.A. Weather, New York, N.Y.: Flatiron Books, →ISBN, page 277:

     He knew the numbers well. He had kept them meticulously in his log as the proud pyrogeographer he believed himself to be.

   • 2022, Fred Hageneder, Healthy Planet: Global Meltdown or Global Healing, Winchester, Hampshire, Washington, D.C.: Moon Books, →ISBN, page 195:

     Don Hankins, a pyrogeographer and Plains Miwok fire expert at California State University, Chico, notes that the overall apocalyptic outlook does not mean that California is unlivable: "In most places in California where these fires are happening, Indigenous people have lived in these places for thousands of years, with fire."

   • 2024 January 17, Devan Allen McGranahan, Carissa L. Wonkka, “Pyrogeography of the Western Great Plains: A 40-Year History of Fire in Semi-Arid Rangelands”, in Fire, volume 7, number 1, Basel: MDPI, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Conveniently for pyrogeographers, all the necessary variables have been available across most of the conterminous United States for the last several decades, at daily increments and at 4 km resolution, through products like gridMET.

Usage notes

• The term is significantly rarer than pyrogeography, only having come into prominence around the late 2010s.

References

• Paul McFedries (1996–2024) “pyrogeography”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited.