Our people
A page within River Studies Center
Center Director
- Biology
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- estrauss@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8262
Specialty areas:
Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality
Associate Director
- College of Science & Health Dean
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- cbelby@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Leadership Team
- Microbiology
- Associate Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- bbratina@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6994
Specialty areas:
Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry
- Sociology & Criminal Justice
- Associate Professor
- 437J Wimberly Hall
- adriscoll@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6801
Specialty areas:
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy
- Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Professor
- L4 Cowley Hall
- krolfhus@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8289
Specialty areas:
Environmental and analytical chemistry
- Biology
- Associate Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- dschumann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8242
Specialty areas:
Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, movement ecology.
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
- Academic Affairs
- Dean Grad & Extended Learning
- 205C Morris Hall
- mthomsen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8245
Specialty areas:
Academic leadership; graduate program support; credit and non-credit outreach program development. Primary contact for thesis/dissertation; graduate faculty status.
Membership
- Institute of Professional Studies of Education
- Director - IPSE
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Learning Sciences
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cosmopolitan Literacies
Critical Literacies
Community Literacies
Reading Instruction
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Assistant Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- rbhowmick@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Climatology, meteorology, natural hazards and extreme events, risk assessment, GIScience, machine learning
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- jbunbury@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8338
Specialty areas:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Urban Analytics, and Machine Learning.
- Biology
- Associate Professor
- L4 Cowley Hall
- adavelos@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8239
- Biology
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- jfreund@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6455
Specialty areas:
Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Stream Habitat Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Associate Professor
- 4015 Cowley Hall
- kgorres@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5284
Specialty areas:
Biochemistry, Virology, Reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus
- Biology
- Assistant Professor
- 3014 Cowley Hall
- agrupeii@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8253
Specialty areas:
Mycology, fungal biodiversity, truffles, fungal symbiosis, plant-fungal interactions, co-cropping economic nut trees with truffles, and fungal ecology. Please contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate research in these or other areas.
- Biology
- Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- tking-heiden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6463
Specialty areas:
Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology.
- Sociology & Criminal Justice
- Associate Professor
- 437H Wimberly Hall
- pmarina@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6770
Specialty areas:
Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Deviance & Transgression, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Sociology of Culture, Social Inequalities, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Associate Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- nmishra@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Professor
- L1 Cowley Hall
- jpeirce@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6604
Specialty areas:
Mathematical Ecology and Differential Equations
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Assistant Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- bpompeii@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6674
Specialty areas:
My specialty areas include water resource management, environmental justice, sustainability, and hazards.
- Sustainability and Environmental Studies
- Teaching Professor
- 4106 Centennial Hall
- aremsburg@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5250
Specialty areas:
service learning, forest ecology, dragonfly and damselfly ecology, forest and riparian socio-ecological systems, conservation biology
- Geography & Environmental Science
- Associate Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- dsambu@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8342
Specialty areas:
Water Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation, Community Livelihood, Conservation photography
- Biology
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- gsandland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6982
Specialty areas:
Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology
- Biology
- Assistant Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- aschneider2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6977
Specialty areas:
Parasitic plants
Native plants of Wisconsin
Plant taxonomy and systematics
Natural history collections
Citizen science (e.g. iNaturalist)
Currently seeking undergraduate and graduate research students.
- English
- Professor
- 426F Wimberly Hall
- ksultzbach@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6930
Specialty areas:
20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Climate Literature, Questions of Place and Identity, Law and Literature
- Biology
- Assistant Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- rvandervorste@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6978
Specialty areas:
aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Professor
- 1009 Cowley Hall
- cvidden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5214
Specialty areas:
- Intersections of mathematics and AI / big data
- Machine learning, AI, and data science with applications in various fields of study
- Applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computational mathematics
- Undergraduate research