Our People
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
Academic Department Associate
Academic Department Associate
2004 Cowley Hall
karendt@uwlax.edu
608.785.8333
Kelsey Arendt's office hours
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
Professor
2027 Cowley Hall
cberlin@uwlax.edu
608.785.8340
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Vegetation Mapping, Climatology and Meteorology
Cynthia Berlin's office hours
Associate Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
Joan Bunbury's office hours
Associate 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
Associate Lecturer
2030 Cowley Hall
rgood@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674
Specialty areas:
Human–environment geographies; sustainable development; environmental justice; environmental science and Earth system science; Africa
Ryan Good's office hours
Associate Lecturer
2020 Cowley Hall
mislam@uwlax.edu
608.785.6675
Specialty areas:
Synoptic Climatology, Monsoon climate. Earth and Environment Science and GIS
Md Islam's office hours
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
Associate Professor
2004 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
Niti Mishra'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
Retired Faculty
| Dr. Georges Cravins - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography Clark University Years of teaching service: 1988 - 2020 |
| Dr. Rafique Ahmed- Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography Ohio State University Years of teaching service: 1984 - 2015 |
| Dr. Greg Chu - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Hawaii - Manoa Years of teaching service: 1993 - 2010 E-Mail: chu.greg@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Mehmet Aritan - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Kentucky Years of teaching service: 1979 - 2009 E-mail: aritan.mehm@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Harun Rashid - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Saskatchewan Years of teaching service: 2004 - 2009 E-mail: rasid.haru@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Dean Wilder - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Colorado - Boulder Years of teaching service: 1978 - 2008 E-mail: wilder.dean@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Robert Wingate - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Minnesota Years of teaching service: 1965 - 2005 E-Mail: wingate.robe@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Paul Stoelting - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Years of teaching service: 1986 - 2004 E-mail: stoeltin.paul@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Dr. Virgil Holder - Emeritus Ph.D. in Geography University of Minnesota Years of teaching service: 1965 - 2002 E-mail: holder.virg@eagle.uwlax.edu |