Mauri Pelto

Teaching Philosophy / Goals

I have been a professor of environmental science at Nichols College since 1989. After receiving a PhD in geology from the University of Maine, I wanted to teach at a smaller college. I had attended large public universities where most professors did not know me, and the lecture halls prevented any true interaction. The result was that even though the professors cared about their teaching, they had no direct connection to you.
Here at Nichols my goal is to make the science and computer information design courses I teach as practical as possible. The result of some of the most extensive water streamflow projects in the state are conducted by my science students. In Visual Communications and Web Page Design we focus on publishing web pages and brochures for local companies and organizations, from the Boys and Girls Club to the National Park Service.

 

 

Interests

My specialty is glacier research. I have for 25 years spent every summer completing field research on glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington and in Alaska. This is the most extensive program for monitoring glaciers in the field in the United States.

 

Courses I Teach

World Economic Geography, Physical World, Visual Communications, Global Warming, Web Page Design