Department of Geography

Dalia McGill, double major in Geography and Studio Art, received the Brooks Traveling Fellowship to conduct a photography project about the Belo Monte Dam, which is currently being constructed on the Xingu River in the Amazon.

Most Dartmouth students grew up in and will increasingly encounter an urbanized world.  Yet we have no specific set of courses or curriculum to help prepare our students for those encounters.  Accordingly,  Geography has created a new minor in Urban Studies.

Simone Wien ’16, a Geography modified with Economics major, was selected to present at the Annual Engaged Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference at Harvard College, and was awarded First Prize for Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation.

Conducting fieldwork in South Africa was an adventuresome and intellectual endeavor. Reading academic journals and Geography books on fieldwork, I have wondered for years what Geography fieldwork actually looks like.

Jonathan Winter, an assistant professor of geography, specializes in climate prediction and the impact of climate change on water resources and agriculture. He is the lead author in a study on mapping local climate data.

It’s now common to refer to health plan members and patients alike as “health care consumers,” and to talk about the trend toward consumerism in U.S. health care.

At the occasion of the end of the research program Reppaval (lien vers présentation), an international workshop was organized at the University of Poitiers (4-5 December 2015) in order to discuss social, cultural and political issues of dam and weir removal operations in Europe (Spain, Sweden, France) and North America (Canada, USA). Dam (and weir) removal projects, which are the most widespread river restoration operation in north-western France, are in fact also the most conflicting due to the fact ecological continuity reestablishment often involves landscape changes and activity transformations … The aim of this international workshop is to compare and share experiences of ecological continuity restoration in different cultural, institutional and political contexts.

Christopher Sneedon book, Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and US Bureau of Reclamation, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Meridian Book Award.

This summer Jonathan Winter received additional funding to support his research assessing the impacts of climate change on the Lake Champlain Basin.  This work is part of a broader NSF project led by the University of Vermont to create policy-relevant information on land use and management strategies to reduce algal blooms in Lake Champlain, which are caused by nutrient pollution and are toxic to humans, now and in the future.  

Professor of Geography Frank Magilligan and his colleagues are studying the way rivers respond when dams are removed. "Dam removals help us understand how rivers behave," he tells NOVA Next. Read more at http://dartgo.org/ar/rr/dnowmagilligan1.