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Two projects with connections to the Rural Rivers Project have received funding as part of the Arts Integration Initiative by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. Aletha Spang (Dartmouth College, Department … Continue reading Art’s Integration Grants Awarded to Rural Rivers Project Collaborators

Sereena Knight Dartmouth College ’24 Over the past year, I have been researching the complex dimensions behind the destruction from the 2023 summer floods in Vermont.   Much of my interest in this subject … Continue reading Anything But Natural: The Unnatural Factors that Led to the Climate Disaster of Vermont’s 2023 Summer Floods

After joining the research team for meetings and community events in the summer, I started my role as a research assistant with Dr. Charis Boke in the fall. My research aims to investigate how … Continue reading Recap: Fall 2024 Research Assistantship

It’s been a busy few weeks here at the Rural Rivers project! Students in Dr. Boke’s Anthropology of Disaster class have been hard at work with their community partners, determining what will be the … Continue reading Newsletter – Two Weeks in the Rural Rivers Project

A collaboration between Dartmouth College and Black River community organizations At A Glance Community Science: How community science collaborations build local resilience Vermont towns facing repeat flooding events are watching their rivers, and approaching … Continue reading Newsletter: Rural Rivers in Vermont

Last Saturday Dr. Sarah Kelly and Cavendish VT community partners taught students about river corridor planning from the perspective of recreators, watershed planners, and dragonflies. The lesson guided students from Greven Field, through areas … Continue reading River Lesson: Anthropology of Disaster Students Engage with Community Partners 

Our research design starts from grounding in trauma-informed research, and researcher sensitivity to the emotional and social burden of flood-related losses. An ethical stance in the context of disasters must also include the choice … Continue reading Our Information Sheet and Ethical Approach

Here’s a quick overview of our grounding in some key disaster studies scholarship! All disaster response, recovery, mitigation, and resilience building, by our definition and that of many others, must be relational and emplaced, … Continue reading For the bibliography curious…

…to the Rural Rivers/Mapping for Resilience project, a collaboration across Geography, Anthropology, Earth Sciences, Emergency Management, and Humanitarian Engineering at Dartmouth College and Colorado School of Mines, in coordination with communities in the Black … Continue reading Welcome…