On a crisp, sunny day in October 2025, a large group of our undergraduate and graduate students took a field trip to the aerial mapping…

Associate Professor Christian Andresen’s interdisciplinary Earth Sense Lab focuses on the impacts of climate change on land-atmosphere carbon dynamics. For Geography graduate students in the…

A few months ago we asked you to share your memories of Science Hall—and you delivered! Here’s a taste of what we’ve heard. We’ll share…

On the afternoon of September 18, the bustle of a group of middle school students from Madison’s Wingra School animated Science Hall. The students, working…

Greetings, everyone. It’s hard to know where to begin! The past few months have presented some of the most significant, coordinated challenges to higher education…

For most of us, summer camp is a fond memory. Adventures, campouts, popsicles, lazy days floating on a lake… it’s all in the distant past….

For over a decade, the UW Cartography Lab has planned and hosted a yearly Design Challenge. Always a highlight of the department’s year, the Design…

This fall, the Department of Geography invites undergraduates to make sense of the world in a new, data-driven way. For the first time ever, we’re…

This July, visitors from across the state—and even across the country—made the trek to the Robinson Map Library to see a unique set of maps….

Travel to Middle-earth, Narnia, and beyond!  In 1981, Karen Wynn Fonstad authored The Atlas of Middle-earth, the official geographic guide to the world of author…