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Department Chair

Colin Belby  Profile of Colin Belby  Office hours

Colin Belby's office hours

Tuesday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday
9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Thursday
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339

Specialty areas:

Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS

Academic Department Associate

Anita Willis-Frels  Profile of Anita Willis-Frels

2004 Cowley Hall
awillis-frels@uwlax.edu
608.785.8333

(front row left to right) Cynthia Berlin, Joan Bunbury, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Daniel Sambu (back row left to right) Niti Mishra, Colin Belby, John Kelly, Anita Willis-Frels, Steve Fulton, Jeff Kueny, Brian Pompeii Inside of Prairie Springs Science Center 1031 Faculty Inside (front row left to right) Cynthia Berlin, Joan Bunbury, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Daniel Sambu (back row left to right) Niti Mishra, Colin Belby, John Kelly, Anita Willis-Frels, Steve Fulton, Jeff Kueny, Brian Pompeii Inside of Prairie Springs Science Center 1031
Brian Pompeii, Joan Bunbury, Cynthia Berlin, John Kelly, Jeff Kueny, Colin Belby, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Niti Mishra, Daniel Sambu, Steve Fulton, Anita Willis-Frels Outside Prairie Spring Science Center Faculty Outside Brian Pompeii, Joan Bunbury, Cynthia Berlin, John Kelly, Jeff Kueny, Colin Belby, Shrobona Karkun Sen, Niti Mishra, Daniel Sambu, Steve Fulton, Anita Willis-Frels Outside Prairie Spring Science Center

Department People

Colin Belby  Profile of Colin Belby  Office hours

Colin Belby's office hours

Tuesday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday
9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Thursday
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339

Specialty areas:

Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS

Cynthia Berlin  Profile of Cynthia Berlin  Cynthia Berlin saysMeet with me

Faculty/Emeritus

cberlin@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Meteorology & Climatology

Joan Bunbury  Profile of Joan Bunbury  Joan Bunbury saysMeet with me  Office hours

Joan Bunbury's office hours

Monday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday
1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402

Specialty areas:

Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments

Gargi Chaudhuri  Profile of Gargi Chaudhuri  Office hours

Gargi Chaudhuri's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338

Specialty areas:

GIS, Remote Sensing, Urban Analytics, and Machine Learning. 

John Kelly  Profile of John Kelly  Office hours

John Kelly's office hours

Tuesday
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
11 p.m. to noon

Remote office hours offered: Virtual (Zoom) appointments are an option. Email me at jkelly@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting, at least two hours before 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

Jeffrey Kueny  Profile of Jeffrey Kueny

Associate Teaching Professor
2030 Cowley Hall
jkueny@uwlax.edu
608.785.8337

Niti Mishra  Profile of Niti Mishra  Office hours

Niti Mishra's office hours

Monday
10 a.m. to noon
Wednesday
noon to 2 p.m.

Associate Professor
2026 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334

Specialty areas:

Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience

Brian Pompeii  Profile of Brian Pompeii  Office hours

Brian Pompeii's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
12:30 p.m. to 2:05 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
2:10 p.m. to 3 p.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
12:30 p.m. to 2:05 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

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. 

Daniel Sambu  Profile of Daniel Sambu  Office hours

Daniel Sambu's office hours

Monday
11 a.m. to noon
Wednesday
11 a.m. to noon
Friday
11 a.m. to noon

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

Shrobona Karkun Sen  Profile of Shrobona Karkun Sen  Office hours

Shrobona Karkun Sen's office hours

Monday
noon to 1 p.m.
Tuesday
1:10 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.
Wednesday
noon to 1 p.m.
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Remote office hours offered: A Teams link will also be open for students to connect virtually during office hours on Mondays and Wednesdays. I will be hosting the office hours on Tuesday on Teams platform only. Check syllabus or send me an email for the link.

Assistant Teaching Professor
2031 Cowley Hall
skarkunsen@uwlax.edu
608.785.6674

Specialty areas:

Research areas: Urban and Regional Land Systems, Multi-method research in Geography, Infrastructure and Urbanization, Urban Sustainability, Urban Megaregions, India

Technology: GIS, Remote Sensing, Cartography, Spatial R

GIS Lab Manager

Steven Fulton  Profile of Steven Fulton  Office hours

Steven Fulton's office hours

Monday
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

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

Specialty areas:

Managing GIS lab and research computers and software.

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. Cynthia Berlin 1999-2024 Ph.D. in Geography: Indiana State University
Dr. Margaret Chew (deceased) 1945-1979 Ph.D. in Geography: Clark University

Dr. Greg Chu

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 1993-2010 Ph.D. in Geography: University of Hawaii-Manoa
Dr. Harold Classen (deceased) 1954-1983 Ph.D. in 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 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

Directory of UWL Emeriti

https://www.uwlax.edu/info/emeriti-directory/