Department of Geography

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.

I can confidently say that every single course I took for my major has benefitted my design career.

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.

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.

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/

Julie’s research focuses on disentangling the drivers of ecosystem change in North America throughout the last 10,000 years.

The Class of '61 Award (geography.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/awards) supports honors-level research by a member of the incoming junior class.

Jonathan Chipman and Xun Shi are part of a large multidisciplinary team recently awarded a $42 million National Institute of Health grant. http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/nih-grants-awarded-to-geisel-and-dartmouth-hitchcock-for-pediatric-research/?utm_source=Dartmouth+News+Weekly&utm_campaign=9df3f9563c-dartnews_weekly_2016_09_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b7afd736b-9df3f9563c-391353485

Susanne Freidberg spoke recently with the BBC World Service about the early history of long-distance food transport, the invention of refrigeration, and the question of whether local food is really better for the environment.  Listen to the program or download the podcast here.

Congratulations Geography Majors!!! You're off to some pretty exciting places after Dartmouth. (Click photo for placement after graduation.)