Daniel W. Gade

Daniel Wynne Gade (September 28, 1936 – June 15, 2015) was a professor of Geography at the University of Vermont and a prominent member of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.

His main interests were in the fields of cultural geography and historical geography, as well as ethnobotany, cultural ecology, and mountain research.

His regional focus was on the Central Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; moreover, Gade also investigated cultural landscapes of francophone Canada, Spain and Portugal, highland Madagascar, southern France and northern Italy.

His dissertation on human plant use in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru was published in the series Biogeographica, then edited by German geographer Josef Schmithüsen.

During his travels in South America, he also met the Nazi scientist Heinz Brücher and analyzed his work in a publication.