Student Groups
HERD
The Human-Environment Research Discussion/Debate/Dialogue is a group designed to talk about pertinent issues in the sub-field or people-environment geography. Its core is comprised of the people-environment faculty and graduate students(though there are participants from other sub-fields), which meets on a bi-weekly basis to present and discuss our work, to discuss recent articles or books, and to talk more generally about all things human-environment related. Meetings are on Tuesdays from noon to one in the Hartshorne Conference Room on the second floor in the back of the Geography Library.
Herd meets from 12-1pm in the Hartshorne Room, 2nd floor (back of the library), Science Hall
For information or to join the HERD mailing list please contact Leif Brottem at brottem@wisc.edu.
PGIG
Physical Geography Interest Group (PGIG) meets to discuss topics relevant to physical geography. The group meets from 12 – 1pm Mondays, 230 Science Hall.
Please contact Sam Greene (greene1@wisc.edu) for more information.
MACDAD
MACDAD (Madison Area Cartographic Design and Dissemination) is an informal student group interested in cartography and geovisualization. It meets twice a month at 12:00 noon in room 450, Science Hall.
To join the MACDAD mailing list, please contact Tim Wallace at twallace2@wisc.edu or send an email to join-macdad@lists.wisc.edu
Beer 'n Loafing
Beer 'n Loafing events are held in the Paul Bunyan Room in the Union and usually meet at 5pm pm on Friday. Posters go up in the halls for advertisement, and we have a webpage on the department website. The slide shows still cover almost every aspect fo student life--trips, classes, recreation, conferneces--with a fine witty flavor, but are now on laptops and PowerPoint presentations, sometimes supplemented with music, annoying sound effects, or video clips. Each semester, two grads volunteer to be the Beer and Loafing coordinators, alternating between begging and bullying for presenters to get on the program.
2010 – 2011 Beer & Loafing Coordinators: Sam Greene & Katie Wirka
Read a History of Beer and Loafing.