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The 10th Annual Cart Lab Design Challenge: Co-Creating a Historical Atlas of Racial Violence

The 10th Anniversary of the UW Cartography Lab’s annual Design Challenge kicked off with a Yi-Fu Tuan lecture on February 16, 2024, with Faculty Director…

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New Staff Profile: Janelle Greene

Title: Communications Specialist- GIS Professional Programs Start Date: December 1st, 2023 Can you tell us more about your path to UW-Madison and your new role…

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Geography students, faculty, and staff participate in 2023 International Cartographic Conference

By: Graduate students: Alicia Iverson, Nuzhat Tabassum Nawshin, and Chelsea Nestel; Professor Robert Roth and Cartography Lab Creative Director Alicia Cowart In August 2023, Ph.D….

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New Staff Profile: Tino Kaltsas

Title: System Engineer III, GNP IT Start Date: June 12, 2023 1. Can you tell us more about your path to UW-Madison and your new…

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New Staff Profile: Alicia Cowart

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography welcomes Alicia Cowart as the new Creative Director in the Cartography Lab. We interviewed Alicia to learn more…

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New Staff Profile: Daven Howard

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography welcomes Daven Howard as a new Technical Support Specialist. We caught up with Daven to learn a bit…

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Welcome to the new academic year from Dept. Chair Jack Williams

Fall in Madison… leaves flushing to red and gold, students rushing to find their classrooms, and, over here in Science Hall, teams of carpenters, electricians,…

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Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office: Heritage Oaks Project

By Michael Hasinoff and Howard Veregin of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office In 1976, local conservationist, preservationist, writer and assistant to the Wisconsin DNR secretary,…

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Research Team from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Create Habitat Map of St. Louis River Estuary

By Howard VereginAugust 24, 2023 A team of researchers from Wisconsin and Minnesota has been awarded a $139,000 grant from NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve…

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Identifying Wisconsin’s Cartographic Phantoms

By: Michael Hasinoff and Howard Veregin of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office A “cartographic phantom” is a community that appears on a map but does…

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