Michaela LeDoux '17 is a geography major and art history minor from New Orleans, LA. She was awarded a 2017-2018 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) grant to teach at a high school in T ř inec, Czech Republic. After participating in the geography department's FSP, Michaela wanted to return to experience more of the country beyond Prague. While in T ř inec, she will also be involved in community engagement projects and hopes to conduct a qualitative research project on her host town and the surrounding region's development after the Velvet Revolution. She is grateful for her experience on the FSP and for the support she has received from the geography department....
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April 25, 2017
Congratulations to Frank Magilligan, Buraas, E.M., and Renshsaw, C.E., 2015. The efficacy of stream power and flow duration on geomorphic responses to catastrophic flooding, Geomorphology, 228: 175-188) was selected for the 2017 G.K. Gilbert Award for "Excellence in Geomorphological Research” awarded by the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the AAG....
April 12, 2017
Stephanie Spera joined the Geography Department as a Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in 2016. After spending four years counting craters on Mars as an Earth and Planetary Science major at Washington University in St. Louis, Stephanie decided to give up on that planet and focus on her own. Broadly, her research asks, ‘How do we ensure that we manage our landscapes sustainably?’
April 05, 2017
"The Land Beneath Our Feet"Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Gregg Mitman 5:30 on Monday, April 10First floor of House Center B. Dinner will be provided....
February 02, 2017
We the members of the Geography Department at Dartmouth College condemn the US Executive Order, "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States," issued on January 27, 2017....
January 19, 2017
Garrett Dash Nelson joined the Geography Department in the fall of 2016 as a Society of Fellows junior fellow. Garrett is a historical geographer who became interested in studying the connection between social life and landscape transformation after taking courses on the history of landscape architecture as a Social Studies major at Harvard College.
January 10, 2017
I can confidently say that every single course I took for my major has benefitted my design career.
December 07, 2016
Postdoctoral fellow Garrett Nelson, a member of Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows, and a co-author have studied over 4 million commuter paths to identify “megaregions in the contiguous United States,” reports National Geographic.
December 05, 2016
Greta's research focuses on the ways that expert knowledge about environmental resources is shaped by political relations between people. These include dynamics of race, class, and gender as well as national and international governance....
October 26, 2016
Society of Fellows Garrett Nelson writes "If we think carefully about the flaws in measuring how dense a place is, we can better articulate what we actually value about urbanism." https://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/10/the-deception-of-density/502646/