Arthur E. Karinen
1919 - 2004
Arthur E. Karinen, professor emeritus in geography, passed away May 25, 2004, at the age of eighty-five.
Karinen earned his B.A. and M.A. from UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Karinen joined the California State University-Chico faculty in 1959 and retired in 1986. Prior to coming to Chico, Karinen had held positions at Ohio State, University of Maryland and the Helsinki School of Economics.
He was a member of the AAG and the American Congress on Surveying Mapping.
An expert in cartography and the economic geography of Europe, Karinen was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1958-59 and was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Finland in 1970. He contributed to many atlases and publications, and was co-author of California: Land of Contrast and California, both of which went through several editions and revisions.
Arthur E. Karinen (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(7): 28.