Department of Geography

Research, conducted by Alasdair Rae from Sheffield University and Garrett Nelson from Dartmouth College, has won the Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement in this year’s RTPI Awards for Research Excellence.

In light of the recent hurricanes slamming the Gulf Coast and Southeastern United States, The Exchange spoke with Perry Plummer, Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Jonathan Winter, a Dartmouth professor who has studied increasing precipitation over the last two decades in New England, and two engineers, Jim Gallagher, who specializes in dams, and Fred McNeill, who works in wastewater treatment, about how well New Hampshire is prepared for major weather events.  See full article http://nhpr.org/post/northeast-gets-wetter-nh-faces-critical-need-fix-aging-infrastructure-0#stream/0

Lisa V. Adams, MED ’90, the associate dean for global health and associate professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, has been appointed to oversee global initiatives in the office of Provost Carolyn Dever. Full article: https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/07/lisa-v-adams-oversee-dartmouths-global-strategy

Researcher Jonathan Winter says spring and fall downpours have seen about an 84 percent increase, while winter and summer have seen more moderate increases of 45 and 27 percent, respectively. The study was published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Hydrometeorology last month.

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 Třinec, Czech Republic. After participating in the geography department's FSP, Michaela wanted to return to experience more of the country beyond Prague. While in Třinec, 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. 

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.  

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?’

"The Land Beneath Our Feet"
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Gregg Mitman
5:30 on Monday, April 10
First floor of House Center B.
Dinner will be provided.

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.

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.