Chair's Blog

Dr. Joe Hupy with teaching his field methods class The Department of Geography and Anthropology is excited to learn that our colleague Dr. Joe Hupy has just been selected as one of three 2016 UW System Regent Scholars .  The Scholarship is intended to encourage and reward cutting-edge undergraduate research and collaboration that has the potential to spur regional economic development and entrepreneurial possibilities.  The scholarship comes with summer funding to support research and scholarly activities while stimulating innovation and industry outreach.   Specifically, Dr. Hupy's research involves using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for economic and environmental applications in the mining, and has the potential for much wider geospatial applications in construction, insurance, real estate, and beyond.  For more details on Dr. Hupy and his work related to the grant, see the UW-Eau Claire news article .  To learn about how to geographically apply U...

Two years ago, our department embarked on a department to department relationship with the Geography and Environment Department at the University of Aberdeen.  In summer of 2014, I visited to Aberdeen to initiate this unique and mutually beneficial relationship.   St Mary's Hall - Home of Geography at University of Aberdeen In Spring 2015, Piotr Niewiadomski, a human geographer at Aberdeen, visited our campus to give a couple of lectures and get to know UW-Eau Claire and our department, faculty, students, and programs. We explored ways of growing the relationship, making student exchanges more accessible and, maximizing the mutual benefits to our students and programs.  As examples, Aberdeen is interested in having their students participate in our geospatial certificate program and we are interested in exploring the feasibility of taking a GEOG 368 to Scotland.  This year, we have two students from Aberdeen in Eau Claire and four of our geograph...