Dr. Maria Lane

Maria Lane, Dept of Geography

1 University of New Mexico

MSC01 1110

Albuquerque, NM 87131

E-mail: mdlane@unm.edu

Tel: 505-277-4075

Fax: 505-277-3614

Office: Bandelier West 224

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Maria Lane

Department of Geography & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Dr. Maria Lane

Ph.D., University of Texas, 2006

Research Interests: historical geography, environmental knowledge, water resources, history and geography of science, critical physical geography, irrigation, dams, arid landscapes, American Southwest, Atlantic World, history of cartography

Teaching Interests: active learning, peer instruction, student-centered classrooms, field trips, nature and society, theory and methods in geography, world regions, New Mexico and the Southwest, historical geography, the Americas

Currently working on:

· An NSF-funded research project on historical transitions in water resource management in New Mexico and the arid West.

· An NSF-funded project to create and analyze a historical GIS of territorial-era water disputes in New Mexico.

· An investigation of land managers’ decision-making strategies relate to perceptions of landscape change in the Rio Grande valley and the wider American Southwest

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