Our people
Faculty Outside PSSC
(front row left to right) Cynthia Berlin, Joan Bunbury, Gargi Chaudhuri, Brian Pompeii
(back row left to right) Niti Mishra, Daniel Sambu, Jeff Kueny, John Kelly, Colin Belby
Outside of Prairie Springs Science Center
Faculty inside PSSC
(Front row left to right ) Joan Bunbury, Cynthia Berlin, Jeff Kueny
(Back row left to right) Steven Fulton, John Kelly, Daniel Sambu, Brian Pompeii, Colin Belby, Niti Mishra
Inside Prairie Spring Science Center 1031
Department Chair
Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination
Colin Belby's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Feel free to stop by my office anytime to see if I am available to meet. Email me at cbelby@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting.
Academic Department Associate
Academic Department Associate
2004 Cowley Hall
awillis-frels@uwlax.edu
608.785.8333
Department People
Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination
Colin Belby's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Feel free to stop by my office anytime to see if I am available to meet. Email me at cbelby@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting.
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)
Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
Joan Bunbury's office hours
Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338
Specialty areas:
GIS, Spatial Simulation Modeling, Land use and land cover change, Network Analysis, and Cartography.
Gargi Chaudhuri's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Virtual meetings: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/3051722295
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
John Kelly's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Virtual (Zoom) appointments are an option. Email me at jkelly@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting, preferable during office hours.
Associate Teaching Professor
2030 Cowley Hall
jkueny@uwlax.edu
608.785.8337
Associate Professor
2004 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
Niti Mishra's office hours
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.
Brian Pompeii'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
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.
Steven Fulton's office hours
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 |