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Dr. Donald A.
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Dr. Donald A. Friend
is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of
Earth Science Programs at Minnesota State
University, USA. He is the US Representative to the
International Geographical Union Commission on
Diversity in Mountain Systems, and past Chair and
Co-Founder of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group
of the Association of American Geographers. He sits
on several advisory boards including those for The
Mountain Studies Institute in Silverton, Colorado,
USA, and McGraw-Hill Publishers. His research and
teaching interests focus on physical geography,
especially earth surface and atmospheric processes,
their interaction and human impacts in mountains. He
is also keenly interested in environmental and
geographic education. His Ph.D. is in Geography
(1997) from Arizona State University. He earned the
M.A. in Geography at the University of Colorado at
Boulder (1988), and he earned the B.S. from the
University of California at Berkeley in Conservation
of Natural Resources (1984). He has held summer
lectureships in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska;
and with The Mountain Institute, headquartered in
Washington, DC. |
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