Geography & Environmental Science
Our people
Department Chair
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Academic Department Associate
Faculty Inside
(front row left to right) Cynthia Berlin, Joan Bunbury, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Daniel Sambu
(back row left to right) Niti Mishra, Colin Belby, John Kelly, Anita Willis-Frels, Steve Fulton, Jeff Kueny, Brian Pompeii
Inside of Prairie Springs Science Center 1031
Faculty Outside
Brian Pompeii, Joan Bunbury, Cynthia Berlin, John Kelly, Jeff Kueny, Colin Belby, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Niti Mishra, Daniel Sambu, Steve Fulton, Anita Willis-Frels
Outside Prairie Spring Science Center
Department People
Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Professor
2027 Cowley Hall
cberlin@uwlax.edu
608.785.8340
Specialty areas:
Environmental Conservation, Aerial Photograph Interpretation & Mapping, Meteorology, Climatology
Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338
Specialty areas:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Urban Analytics, and Machine Learning.
Associate Professor
2023 Cowley Hall
jkelly@uwlax.edu
608.785.8341
Specialty areas:
rural Latin America; indigenous cultures, territorialities, and property rights; forest-agriculture dynamics; participatory research mapping; protected areas
Associate Teaching Professor
2030 Cowley Hall
jkueny@uwlax.edu
608.785.8337
Associate Professor
2026 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
Assistant Teaching Professor
2020 Cowley Hall
bpompeii@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674
Specialty areas:
My specialty areas include water resource management, environmental justice, sustainability, and hazards.
Associate Professor
2024 Cowley Hall
dsambu@uwlax.edu
608.785.8342
Specialty areas:
Water Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation, Community Livelihood, Conservation photography
Lecturer
1002 Cowley Hall
skarkunsen@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674
GIS Lab Manager
GIS Lab Manager
241 Cowley Hall
sfulton@uwlax.edu
608.785.8336
Specialty areas:
Managing GIS lab and research computers and software.
Emeritus Faculty and Academic Staff
| NAME | YEARS | BACKGROUND |
| Dr. Rafique Ahmed (deceased) | 1984-2015 | Ph.D. in Geography: Ohio State University |
| Dr. Mehmet Aritan | 1979-2009 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Kentucky |
| Dr. Margaret Chew (deceased) | 1945-1979 | Ph.D. in Geography: Clark University |
| 1993-2010 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Hawaii-Manoa | |
| Dr. Harold Classen (deceased) | 1954-1983 | Ph.D. in Human/Cultural Geography: University of Nebraska |
| Dr. Georges Cravins | 1988-2020 | Ph.D. in Geography: Clark University |
| Jerry Culver (deceased) | 1956-1993 | M.S. in Geography: University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| John Hoefer (deceased) | 1966-1990 | M.S. in Human/Cultural Geography: University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Dr. Virgil Holder | 1965-2002 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Minnesota |
| Dr. George Huppert (deceased) | 1979-2001 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Northern Colorado |
| Dr. Hank Nelson | 1968-1979 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Nebraska |
| Karen Ott | 1993-2016 | |
| Dr. Harun Rasid | 2004-2009 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Saskatchewan |
| Dr. Paul Stoelting | 1986-2004 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Paula Wade | 1966-1979 | M.A. in Geography: Indiana University |
| Dr. Ronald Weinkauf (deceased) | 1979-1999 | Ph.D. in Geography: Oregon State University |
| Dr. Edward Weinzierl (deceased) | 1963-1993 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Nebraska |
| Dr. Clayton Whitney (deceased) | 1915-1952 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Chicago |
| Dr. Dean Wilder | 1978-2008 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Colorado-Boulder |
| Dr. Robert Wingate | 1965-2005 | Ph.D. in Geography: University of Minnesota |