Dr. Nick Schulke is a Great Lakes Social Scientist at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. I began my journey in geography during a year of post-baccalaureate studies at UWM. I was drawn to the field of geography due to the breadth of discipline across the physical and social sciences, and also because I’m a …
Dr. Rama Mohapatra is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Minnesota State University, Mankato and serves as a Graduate Program Coordinator for the GIS Certificate Program. Being born and brought up in the flanks of Eastern Ghats (Hills) in India, since my childhood, …
My path to UWM was non-traditional. Nearing the end of a long career as a physical scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, I started thinking about what I would enjoy doing when retired. I combined my love for science and research …
I recently started a new position as a Geospatial Analyst with the National Zoning Atlas (NZA), a nationwide initiative to compile, standardize, and map zoning codes across the United States, making this complex data more accessible to researchers, policymakers, and …
Dr. Xinyue Ye received the 2025 AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honor for his groundbreaking contributions at the crossroads of geography, urban planning, and data science. As the Harold L. Adams Endowed Professor in Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, he has …
I decided to study geography because geography and the workings of the world have always been of great interest to me. UWM Department of Geography has a ton of information on what studying geography would look like and what one might …
I graduated from UWM in 2019 with a BA in Geography and a focus on GIS. I also was very interested in and took many of the urban geography and globalization courses. What prompted you to study geography? As cliche …
I am a PhD student at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in Russian, Indigenous, Imperial, and Environmental History, with a particular focus on Siberia and the North Pacific. I graduated in the spring of 2022. I was most interested in and …
In my undergraduate program, I jumped from major to major because I had many interests and was curious about many different things. As I started to develop an interest in the city, I stumbled over the geography department at Bowling …
I joined the UWM geography department in 2004. I had recently completed my MS in GIS and wanted to pursue a doctoral degree and focus on a research topic at the intersection of GIS, Society, and Technology intersections. I was …
