Our people
Center Director
Assistant Center Director & Web Moderator
Professor
2033 Cowley Hall
estrauss@uwlax.edu
608.785.8262
Specialty areas:
Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality
Personnel
Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Colin Belby's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Zoom (https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/my/cbelby). Feel free to stop by outside of scheduled office hours to see if I am available or email me at cbelby@uwlax.edu to set up a meeting.
Professor
1028 Cowley Hall
bbennie@uwlax.edu
608.785.6605
Specialty areas:
Applied statistics, game theory
Professor
2027 Cowley Hall
cberlin@uwlax.edu
608.785.8340
Specialty areas:
Environmental Conservation, Aerial Photograph Interpretation & Mapping, Meteorology, Climatology
Cynthia Berlin's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Office Hours are by Zoom and in 149 Cowley (Lab)
Associate Professor
3029 Cowley Hall
bbratina@uwlax.edu
608.785.6994
Specialty areas:
Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry
Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
Joan Bunbury's office hours
Assistant Professor
1027 Cowley Hall
wbungula@uwlax.edu
608.785.6608
Specialty areas:
Topological Data Analysis (TDA), TDA Mapper, Computational Topology, Topology
Wako Bungula's office hours
Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338
Specialty areas:
GIS, Urbanization, Network Analysis, Spatial Simulation Modeling, and Cartography, and Machine Learning.
Associate Professor
4032 Cowley Hall
adavelos@uwlax.edu
608.785.8239
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
Adam Driscoll's office hours
Lecturer
2036 Cowley Hall
jfreund@uwlax.edu
608.785.6455
Specialty areas:
Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Stream Habitat Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Jason Freund's office hours
Professor
2044 Health Science Center
lharmon@uwlax.edu
608.785.8213
Specialty areas:
My primary areas of research are social-psychological outcomes of nature-based recreation including how we come to know and get connected to places, technology and the outdoors, and the scholarship of teaching & learning. I particularly enjoy the work I do using underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to get youth and adults connected to aquatic environments.
Laurie Harmon's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Virtual appointments are an option. Please contact me at lharmon@uwlax.edu if you'd like to schedule a virtual meeting.
Professor
3028 Cowley Hall
tking-heiden@uwlax.edu
608.785.6463
Specialty areas:
Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology. In my lab, we strive to bridge the gap between ecotoxicology (fish) and human health. Students interested in earning a MS degree should email me.
Associate Professor
2004 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
Niti Mishra's office hours
Professor
2031 Cowley Hall
jpeirce@uwlax.edu
608.785.6604
Specialty areas:
Mathematical Ecology and Differential Equations
James Peirce's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Office Hours on M, Tu, and Th are virtual. See connection information in Canvas.
Teaching Assistant Professor
2020 Cowley Hall
bpompeii@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674
Specialty areas:
My specialty areas include water resource management, environmental justice, sustainability, and hazards.
Brian Pompeii's office hours
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
Alysa Remsburg's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Zoom or phone meetings also welcome. Please use the calendly link to schedule
Professor
4022 Cowley Hall
krolfhus@uwlax.edu
608.785.8289
Specialty areas:
Environmental and analytical chemistry
Kristofer Rolfhus's office hours
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
Daniel Sambu's office hours
Professor
2032 Cowley Hall
gsandland@uwlax.edu
608.785.6982
Specialty areas:
Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology
Assistant Professor
2034 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!
David Schumann's office hours
Professor
4108 Centennial Hall
ksultzbach@uwlax.edu
608.785.6930
Specialty areas:
20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Questions of Place, and Law and Literature
Kelly Sultzbach's office hours
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.
Assistant Professor
3032 Cowley Hall
rvandervorste@uwlax.edu
608.785.6978
Specialty areas:
aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology