Mauri Pelto

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 is some of the most extensive water streamflow projects in the state are conducted by my science students. In Visual Communications we focus on publishing web pages and brochures for local companies and organizations, from the Boys and Girls Club to the National Park Service.

My specialty is glacier research. I have for 29 years spent every summer completing field research on glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington and in Alaska. The North Cascade Glacier Climate Project is the most extensive program for monitoring glaciers in the field in the United States.

Skiing cross country and alpine is an ongoing passion.  The goal is to ski at least  50 times in a winter.

ESCI 309   World Economic Geography, ESCI 243   Physical World
BCOM 311 Visual Communications SEM SEM 115    Global Warming
MIS 109    Computer Applications