Our people
A page within River Studies Center
Center Director
Professor
2033 Cowley Hall
estrauss@uwlax.edu
608.785.8262
Specialty areas:
Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality
Professor
2021 Cowley Hall
cbelby@uwlax.edu
608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Faculty/Emeritus
cberlin@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Meteorology & Climatology
Associate Professor
3029 Cowley Hall
bbratina@uwlax.edu
608.785.6994
Specialty areas:
Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry
Professor
2025 Cowley Hall
jbunbury@uwlax.edu
608.785.8402
Specialty areas:
Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments
Assistant Professor
1027 Cowley Hall
wbungula@uwlax.edu
608.785.6608
Specialty areas:
Topological Data Analysis (TDA), TDA Mapper, Computational Topology, Topology
Professor
2022 Cowley Hall
gchaudhuri@uwlax.edu
608.785.8338
Specialty areas:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Urban Analytics, and Machine Learning.
Associate Professor
4032 Cowley Hall
adavelos@uwlax.edu
608.785.8239
Associate Professor
437J Wimberly Hall
adriscoll@uwlax.edu
608.785.6801
Specialty areas:
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy
Assistant Teaching Professor
2036 Cowley Hall
jfreund@uwlax.edu
608.785.6455
Specialty areas:
Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Stream Habitat Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Professor
2044 Health Science Center
lharmon@uwlax.edu
608.785.8213
Specialty areas:
My primary areas of research are social-psychological outcomes of nature-based recreation including how we come to know and get connected to places, technology and the outdoors, and the scholarship of teaching & learning. I particularly enjoy the work I do using underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to get youth and adults connected to aquatic environments.
Professor
3028 Cowley Hall
tking-heiden@uwlax.edu
608.785.6463
Specialty areas:
Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology. In my lab, we strive to bridge the gap between ecotoxicology (fish) and human health. We use small fish models (typically zebrafish and fathead minnows) to study the effects of embryonic exposure to various environmental contaminants of emerging concern on development, behavior, metamorphosis, cardiovascular health, immune response and reproductive health.
Students interested in doing Undergraduate Independent Research or earning a MS degree should email me, especially if you hold marginalized identities within the field of environmental science.
Associate Professor
2026 Cowley Hall
nmishra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8334
Specialty areas:
Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience
Professor
1028 Cowley Hall
jpeirce@uwlax.edu
608.785.6604
Specialty areas:
Mathematical Ecology and Differential Equations
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.
Teaching Professor
4106 Centennial Hall
aremsburg@uwlax.edu
608.785.5250
Specialty areas:
service learning, forest ecology, dragonfly and damselfly ecology, forest and riparian socio-ecological systems, conservation biology
Professor
4022 Cowley Hall
krolfhus@uwlax.edu
608.785.8289
Specialty areas:
Environmental and analytical chemistry
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
Professor
2032 Cowley Hall
gsandland@uwlax.edu
608.785.6982
Specialty areas:
Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology
Assistant Professor
2034 Cowley Hall
dschumann@uwlax.edu
608.785.8242
Specialty areas:
Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, movement ecology.
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
Professor
426F Wimberly Hall
ksultzbach@uwlax.edu
608.785.6930
Specialty areas:
20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Climate Literature, Questions of Place and Identity, Law and Literature
Dean Grad & Extended Learning
205C Morris Hall
mthomsen@uwlax.edu
608.785.8245
Specialty areas:
Academic leadership; graduate program support; credit and non-credit outreach program development. Primary contact for thesis/dissertation; graduate faculty status.
Assistant Professor
3032 Cowley Hall
rvandervorste@uwlax.edu
608.785.6978
Specialty areas:
aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology