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:
Environmental Conservation, Natural Habitat Mapping, Aerial Photograph Interpretation, Climatology
Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
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 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
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 |