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Dr. John Douglass

Department of Geography

Paradise Valley Community College

Phoenix, AZ

Interests: Transverse drainages, drainage evolution, pediments and alluvial fans, active learning strategies in teaching geography, landslides, and backpacking

Click Here for Diagram for Deciphering Transverse Drainages and Related Paper.

Click Here to view the paper on the Marcus Landslide

Education:

Ph.D., Geography, (2005), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Dissertation Title: Criterion Approach to Transverse Drainages.

M.A., Geography, 1999, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Thesis Title: A Late Cenozoic Landscape Evolution Study of the Eastern Grand Canyon Region.

B.S., Geography and Minor in Geology, 1997, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Senior Thesis Title: GIS and Field Based Assessment of a Class V Avalanche Event on Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, Winter 1993.

Publications:

Douglass, J., Meek, N., Dorn, R., and Schmeeckle, M.W., (in press) A criteria-based methodology for determining the mechanism of transverse drainage development, with application to the southwestern USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin (in press)

Douglass, J., and Schmeeckle, M. (2007). Analogue modeling of transverse drainage mechanisms. Geomorphology 84(1-2):22-43.
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Dorn, R.I., Douglass, J., Ekiss, G., Trapido-Lurie, B., Comeaux, M., Mings, R., Eden, R., Davis, C., Hinde, E., (2005) Learning Geography Promotes Learning Math: Results and Implications of Arizona's GeoMath Grade K-8 Program. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 104:95-103. (
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Stumpf, R., Douglass, J., Dorn, R.I. (in press) An Analysis of Student Performance Learning Desert Geomorphology Virtually Versus in the Field. Journal of Geography in Higher Education (in press)

Douglass, J., Dorn, R.I., and Gootee, B. (2005) A large landslide on the urban fringe of Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Geomorphology, 65: 321-336. (click here to view PDF file)

Douglass, J., and Dorn, R.I., (2004) editors in chief, GeoMath CD, Arizona Geographic Alliance; Tempe, Arizona. (650 MB)

Meek, N., and Douglass, J., (2003) Lake-Overflow: An alternative hypothesis to explain Grand Canyon incision and development of the Colorado River. in Colorado River Origin and Evolution: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Grand Canyon National Park in June, 2000: Grand Canyon Association; Grand Canyon National Park, p. 188-204. (click here to view PDF file)