From the Papers of Richard E. Stoiber (1911-2001)

Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library

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Biographical Sketch

Richard E. Stoiber graduated from Dartmouth, Class of 1932 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in economic geology from MIT (1937), after which he spent the rest of his career as a professor of geology and a volcanologist at Dartmouth College (1935-1989).

He spent much of his later career studying volcanoes, their fumaroles and sublimates, in Central America, specifically in Guatemala and El Salvador, mentoring a large group of students. In the mid-1960's he began organizing term-long trips -- called "stretches" -- to Central America for third-year Earth Science classes to study the geology of volcanoes.

About the Digitized Selection

Available here are 12,000 colored slides, mostly from these field trips to Central American volcanoes. Also included are slides of volcanoes found across the world, and images of three dimensional signs from his travels, a particular hobby of Stoiber's.

About the Stoiber Collection

The Richard E. Stoiber Papers, of which these slides are a part, comprise of 23 boxes of material (34.5 linear ft.), and also contain books, manuscripts, class lectures, published articles and abstracts, correspondence, student papers and research reports, photographs, negatives, videotapes and films, annotated maps, and personal realia.

A guide to the entire collection is available online.

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