Distinguished Professor Mark Schwartz is named an AAG Fellow for his strategically important research and for his successful effort to defend and promote geographic research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.… Continue Reading »
Mark Schwartz to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Mark Schwartz has been selected for the AAG 2019 Climate Specialty Group Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations! … Continue Reading »
Professor Rina Ghose Received Distinguished Community Scholar Award
Professor Rina Ghose has received the Distinguished Community Scholar Award from Citizen Science GIS. Read the opening remarks from the award presentation here.… Continue Reading »
Professors Mansson McGinty and Sziarto Awarded C21 grant
Professors Anna M Mansson McGinty and Kristin M Sziarto, in collaboration with Professor Caroline Seymour-Jorn (FICL, Director of Global Studies) have been awarded a C21 grant for their Muslim Milwaukee Project, a multi-stage demographic and ethnographic project exploring the complexity of Muslim … Continue Reading »
Professor Donnelly Partners with International Space Agencies to Study Shrubs
Geography Professor Alison Donnelly’s team use satellite data, in situ observations, and lab analysis to study the contribution of shrubs to forest phenology to better understand carbon budgets…… Continue Reading »
Donna G Genzmer, GISP, GIS Interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
In the lead up to UW-Milwaukee’s annual GIS Day event, Donna G Genzmer, Director of the Cartography & GIS Center, was interviewed about GIS (geographic information systems) on Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Larry Meiller Show on November 13, 2018.… Continue Reading »
Amitav Ghosh Lecture
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Join us at 7pm for “Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean,” a lecture by Amitav Ghosh. UWM Peck School of Arts Music Recital Hall. Reception starts at 6:00 pm. Vilas Distinguished Lecture/George F. Kennan Distinguished Lecture.… Continue Reading »
Geography PhD candidate on 50th Anniversary Video of Riveredge Nature Center
We are pleased to share the 50th anniversary video of the Riveredge Nature Center in which UWM Geography Ph.D candidate, Jana Viel, was featured. Jana has been doing fieldwork for the Nature Center’s Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program.… Continue Reading »
Geography fieldwork students assist with invasive species research
This summer, 19 Geography students worked with Professor Linda McCarthy and 5 mentors from the Southeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium (SEWISC) in nature preserves throughout southeastern Wisconsin.… Continue Reading »
Mark D. Schwartz to receive 2019 AMS Outstanding Achievement Award
We are proud to announce that Dist. Prof. Mark D. Schwartz will be receiving the 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology Award from the American Meteorological Society.
The award recognizes Schwartz’s “innovative advancements in phenological modeling and observations, and exceptional achievements in promoting knowledge and applications of phenology for the benefit of research and society”.… Continue Reading »