Department of Geography

After leaving Dartmouth Chuck attended the University of Kansas where he received an MA (1985) and PhD (1990) in geography. Since 1989 Chuck has been a professor in the geography department at Kansas State University, where he's served for the last 7 years as department head. His research over the last 15 years has focused on heavy metals stored in a relatively rural drainage network (Lahn River) in central Germany.  Obviously, his geography degree has had a major influence on his professional career!

Jacob pursued a major in Geography with the intent of exploring a career in architecture or urban planning. Upon graduation, he took a role with a real estate developer based in Vail, CO to learn more about the holistic processes behind real estate development, design, and construction.

Sydney Kamen ’19 wants to help people around the world lead healthier lives. Full article

Dalia McGill ’16 lived and worked in the Amazon River region of Brazil after graduation, where she produced a documentary, photo essay, and oral history examining the social impact of the controversial Belo Monte Dam project in the Amazon basin. Full article

Arthur Benjamin Adapon (Benny) '19, a geography major, featured in The Dartmouth  March 28, 2018. Full article

Meifang Li, a visiting scholar from the Sun Yat-sen University, China, won the first-place award of the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group’s Peter Gould Student Paper Competition at the annual Association of American Geographers Meeting.

Using a score, Garret Dash Nelson, named after the inventor of gerrymandering, discovers a huge variation in how well congressional districts match up with commuter regions consisting of interconnected urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Asaf Zilberfarb ’17 has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, joining students from 20 countries as one of the inaugural scholars in the program, in which the fellows pursue graduate studies at Stanford University. He plans to pursue a master’s degree in international policy studies at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences.

Dan will be headed to the Xinjiang Institute for Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, China, where he will investigate the response of glaciers to changes in climate with graduate students and colleagues as a CAS Visiting Fellow.

Else Drooff ’18 recently had the opportunity to attend the United Nations Winter Youth Assembly, February 14-16^th, at the UN Headquarters in New York City, along with several members of Dartmouth’s delegation to the Ivy Leadership Council.