John Grolle
Teaching Fields, Geography
Physical, World Cultural, Africa, North America, Remote Sensing
Research Projects
- Principal Investigator for National Geographic Research Field Based Research Project, “Identifying Famine Epicenters/Sentinel Communities in Central Niger”2001,2002.
- Co-Principal Investigator for RJL Systems Inc. “Use of Bio-electrical Impedance Analysis for Quantifying Vulnerability to Famine in the West African Sahel, 1998-present.
- "Remotely Senssed Land Cover Change and Spatial Variations in Chronic Vulnerability among Villages in Rural Nigerien Hausaland" 2004 - present
Publications
- “Heavy Rainfall, Famine and Cultural response in the West African Sahel: the ‘Muda’ of 1953-54,” GeoJournal (1998, V 43, pp 205-214).
- Physical Geography for Social Studies Teachers: A Manual of Activities (2003)
- “Research in Preparation for Major Proposal, Republic of Niger, July - August 2003,: report submitted to M. Adbou Danguiwa, Permanent Secretary for Early Warning and Crisis Management, Cabinet of the Minister, Republic of Niger.
- "Hausa Farmers' Resettlement Initiatives in Nigerian Agricultural Frontiers," manuscript in preparation.
Presentations
- “Migration and Recovery from Famine in the West African Sahel,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 1996.
- "Political Geography Perspectives on Nigeria," presented at Grand Valley State University during Geography Awareness Week, November 2000.
- "Geographic Approaches to Famine Early Warning in the West African Sahel," presented at Grand Valley State University during Geography Awareness Week, November 2000.
- "The Current Famine in Niger: Global, National, and Local Factors," Faculty Research Presentation Series, November 2005 (presented with anthropologist Dr. Scott Youngstedt).