Doug Powell (geographer)

Douglas R. Powell (1920–2006) was a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for being one of the first snow surveyors in the world. He worked with the California Cooperate Snow Survey for28 years and established snow surveying programs in Afghanistan and Chile. His "fabled" Geography 197 field course, which he taught from 1967 until 1989, is fondly remembered by generations of Berkeley geography graduates.