To keep the largest water system in America clean and healthy, contaminated areas around the Great Lakes, known as “Areas of Concern,” need a lot of care from local stakeholders. But, just how do you find stakeholders to participate in the clean up? And once you have them, how do you keep them? Geography associate professor Ryan Holifield tackles those questions in his latest research paper.
UWM Geography associate professor Dr. Woonsup Choi has co-authored a study about the North Korean environmental crisis. See post for an excerpt from and several links to coverage of his work by news outlets!
Geography faculty Anna Manson McGinty and Kristin Sziarto with research collaborator Caroline Seymour-Jorn (FICL) and Global Studies participated in the Choir Project, organized by Global Studies and supported by Geography, C21, and other units. The Choir Project is a unique transnation arts project begun during the Arab Spring in Cairo, Egypt.
The UW Geography Department and MUGS Planning Committee are excited to welcome this year’s keynote speaker, Anne Bonds, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UW-Milwaukee. Saturday, April 27, 2019 in Madison, WI.
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.
Professor Mark Schwartz has been selected for the AAG 2019 Climate Specialty Group Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations!
Professor Rina Ghose has received the Distinguished Community Scholar Award from Citizen Science GIS. Read the opening remarks from the award presentation here.
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 …
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…
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.