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Department Chair

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Professor
2027 Cowley Hall
cberlin@uwlax.edu
608.785.8340
Specialty areas:

Remote Sensing, Vegetation Mapping, Climatology and Meteorology

Academic Department Associate

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Academic Department Associate
105 Graff Main Hall
dgerke@uwlax.edu
608.785.8333

Department People

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Associate Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas: Geomorphology, Rivers, Water Resources
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Professor
2027 Cowley Hall
cberlin@uwlax.edu
608.785.8340
Specialty areas:

Remote Sensing, Vegetation Mapping, Climatology and Meteorology
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Assistant Professor
2024 Cowley Hall
dsambu@uwlax.edu
608.785.8342
Specialty areas:

Water Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation
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Associate Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338
Specialty areas:

Geographic Information System and Science, Spatial Simulation Modeling, Land use and land cover change, Network Analysis, and Cartography.
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Professor
2015 Cowley Hall
gcravins@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674
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Associate Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:

Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
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Lecturer
232 Cartwright Center
jkueny@uwlax.edu
608.785.8337
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Assistant Professor
2020 Cowley Hall
preyerson@uwlax.edu
608.785.6675
Specialty areas: Soils, geomorphology, biogeochemistry, paleoenvironments
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Assistant Professor
2004 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:

Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
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Assistant 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

GIS Lab Manager

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Gis Lab Manager
241 Cowley Hall
sfulton@uwlax.edu
608.785.8336

Retired Faculty

Dr. Rafique Ahmed - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
Ohio State University
Years of teaching service: 1984 - 2015
E-Mail: rahmed@uwlax.edu
Dr. Greg Chu - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Hawaii - Manoa
Years of teaching service: 1993 - 2010
E-Mail: chu.greg@uwlax.edu
Dr. Mehmet Aritan - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Kentucky
Years of teaching service: 1979 - 2009
E-mail: aritan.mehm@uwlax.edu
Dr. Harun Rashid - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Saskatchewan
Years of teaching service: 2004 - 2009
E-mail: rasid.haru@uwlax.edu
Dr. Dean Wilder - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Colorado - Boulder
Years of teaching service: 1978 - 2008
E-mail: wilder.dean@uwlax.edu
Dr. Robert Wingate - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Minnesota
Years of teaching service: 1965 - 2005
E-Mail: wingate.robe@uwlax.edu
Dr. Paul Stoelting - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Years of teaching service: 1986 - 2004
E-mail: stoeltin.paul@uwlax.edu
Dr. Virgil Holder - Emeritus
Ph.D. in Geography
University of Minnesota
Years of teaching service: 1965 - 2002
E-mail: holder.virg@uwlax.edu
Mr. John Hoefer
M.S. in Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Years of teaching service: 1966 - 1990