Faculty and Staff

Alasdair Drysdale

Professor of Geography and Senior Faculty Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts

Huddleston Hall 102D
Phone: (603) 862-3144
Fax: (603) 862-4362
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Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., University of Durham, England, 1971
M.A., University of Durham, England, 1972
Ph.D., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1977

Courses Taught:
GEOG 402: Regional Geography of the Non-Western World
GEOG 540: Geography of the Middle East
GEOG 541: Geography of Japan
GEOG 581: Human Geography
GEOG 584: Political Geography
GEOG 685: Geography of Population & Development

Fields of Research: 
political geography, human geography, non-western world, Middle East, Japan, population and development

Blake Gumprecht

Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of the Geography Department 

Huddleston Hall 102C
Phone: (603) 862-1930
Fax: (603) 862-4362
E-mail

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.S., University of Kansas, 1983
M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University, 1990
M.A., California State University at Los Angeles, 1995
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2000

Courses Taught:
GEOG 401: Regional Geography of the Western World
GEOG 510: Geography of New England
GEOG 514: Geography of the United States and Canada
GEOG 581: Human Geography
GEOG 582: Economic Geography
GEOG 583: Urban Geography
GEOG 588: Geography of Food
GEOG 680/HIST 680: Historical Geography

Fields of Research: 
cultural, urban, and historical geography of the United States and Canada

Joel Hartter

Roland H. O’Neal Assistant Professor of Geography

Huddleston Hall 102B
Phone: (603) 862-7052
Fax: (603) 862-4362
E-mail

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.S., University of Michigan, 2000
B.S.E., University of Michigan, 2000
M.S., Oregon State University, 2004
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2007

Courses Taught:
GEOG 402: Regional Geography of the Non-Western World
GEOG 572: Geography of the Natural Environment
GEOG 550: Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
GEOG 573: Biogeography
GEOG 650: Field Methods in Geography
GEOG 673: Issues in Environmental Geography (writing intensive)

Fields of Research: 
natural resource use in rural communities, human-environment interactions, protected areas, and land use/land cover change

Biniam Iyob

Lecturer in Geography and International Affairs

Huddleston Hall 331
Phone: (603) 862-4007
Fax: (603) 862-4362
E-mail

Education:
B.S., University of Asmara, Eritrea, 1996
M.B.A., University of Mauritius, 2002
M.S., Oregon State University, 2005
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2010

Courses Taught:
GEOG 401: Regional Geography of the Western World
GEOG 402: Regional Geography of the Non-Western World
GEOG 550: Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
GEOG 582: Economic Geography
GEOG 583: Urban Geography
GEOG 584: Political Geography
GEOG 595: Statistics for Geographers
GEOG 685: Geography of Population and Development
GEOG 690: Geography of Third World Development

Mary D. Stampone

Assistant Professor of Geography and
New Hampshire State Climatologist

Huddleston Hall 102A
Phone: (603) 862-3136
Fax: (603) 862-4362
E-mail

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Albion College, 1998
M.S., University of Delaware, 2002
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2009

Courses Taught:
GEOG 473: Elements of Weather
GEOG 574: Geography of Landforms
GEOG 560: Geography of Natural Hazards
GEOG 670: Climatology
GEOG 671: Advanced Weather Analysis

Fields of Research: 
weather and climatology

Russell Congalton

Professor of Natural Resources and Geography

James Hall 162
Phone: (603) 862-4644
Fax: (603) 862-4976
E-mail

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.S., Cook College, Rutgers University, 1979
M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984

Courses Taught:
GEOG 658: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 757: Remote Sensing of the Environment
GEOG 759: Digital Image Processing for Natural Resources
GEOG 760: Geographical Information Systems in Natural Resources

Fields of Research: 
quantitative aspects of spatial data including data accuracy and error analysis, and the application of remotely sensed data and GIS to measures of environmental stress and degradation, wildlife habitat, vegetation mapping, and natural resource inventory

Administrative Assistant

Huddleston Hall 102
Phone: (603) 862-1719
Fax: (603) 862-4362
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