Dr. John (Jack) W. Williams

Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and Environment

Professor
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

email | website

• Faculty Affiliate, Center for Climatic Research
• Faculty Affiliate, Land Tenure Center
• Faculty Affiliate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

• Research Associate, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota 2003-2004
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, 1999-2003
• Ph.D., Brown University, 1999

• Vegetation dynamics
• Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology
• Vegetation-atmosphere linkages

Jennifer Marlon email | website

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison


• "Understanding the coupled response of vegetation and fire to climatic variation since the Last Glacial Maximum"

• Ph.D., Geography, University of Oregon
• M.S., Geography, University of Oregon
• B.S., University at Albany, State University of New York

• Fire in the Earth system
  
• Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology
  
• Global climate change

Alejandro Ordonez email

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Climatic Research and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), 2011
• M.A., Evolutionary biology, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), 2007
  
• Operations manager, PRODYCON S.A. (Colombia), 2003-2007
  
• B.S., Biology, Pontificia universidad Javeriana (Colombia), 2004

• Community Ecology
  
• Mechanism driving of community compositions
  
• Phylogenetic community patterns
  
• Species distribution modeling (SDM's)
  
• Global climate change
  
• Invasive species

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, starting July 2011

• Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 2011
• B.Sc., Plant Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, 2003

• Quaternary paleoecology
  
• Paleoclimate reconstruction using pollen

Samuel Munoz email | website

• Ph.D. Student, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

• M.Sc., Geography, University of Ottawa, 2010
  
• B.Sc., Physical Geography and Geomatics, Carleton University, 2008
  

• Late Quaternary paleoecology
• North American prehistory
• Human-environment interaction

Yue Wang email

• M.S. Student, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, starting August 2011
  

• B.S., Geography, Peking University, 2011
  

• Vegetation dynamics
• Pollen analysis

Grace Schellinger

• B.S. Candidate, Biology & People/Environment Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Charcoal analysis of Silver Lake, OH
• Charcoal analysis of Kirchner Marsh

Chad Zirbel email

• B.S. Candidate, Biological Aspects of Conservation & Physical Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Certificate in Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Sediment description and loss-on-ignition analysis
• Pollen preparation

Jonathan Kershner email

• B.A. Candidate, People/Environment Geography & International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Pollen preparation of Horseshoe Lake, Illinois
• Pollen preparation of Grassy Lake, Illinois

Brigitta Rongstad email

• B.S. Candidate, Physical Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Certificate in Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Charcoal analysis of Anderson Lake, TN

Kelly Kohrs email

• B.S. Candidate, Physical Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Charcoal processing of Anderson Lake, TN

Jessica Blois email | website

• Jessica is now an Assistant Professor  in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced.

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Climatic Research and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 2009
• M.A., Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, 2005
• B.S., Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, 2000

• Quaternary paleoecology of mammals and vegetation
• Ancient DNA
• Mammalian body size across space and time

Jacquelyn Gill email | website | blog

• Jacquelyn is now a Vos postdoctoral researcher at Brown University
• She has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Maine

• Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• M.S., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
  
• B.A., Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic, 2005
  

• Using Quaternary paleoecology to inform ecological theory
• Pollen & charcoal analysis
• North American megafaunal extinction, causes and consequences
• Late glacial no-analog vegetation
• Quaternary refugia and post-glacial migrations

Karen Russ email | website

• Ph.D. Student, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with Joe Mason

Background:

• M.S., Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011


• Technical Paper: "Response of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming in a Transient Simulation of the Last 22,000 Years"


• M.S., Geography, Northern Illinios University, 2002
  
• B.S., Geography, Northern Illinois University, 1996
• B.S., Microbiology, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 1980

Nancy Parker email

• M.S., Physical Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison


• "The Influence of Aridity on the Production, Dispersal, and Preservation of the Megafaunal Proxy Sporormiella in Modern Lake Sediments"
  

• B.S., Geology, Lafayette College, 2009
  

Jenna Bonavia email

• B.S., Comprehensive Honors in Biology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jenna is starting a PhD in Anthropology at University of Texas, San Antonio

Sam Veloz email

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Climatic Research and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis, 2009
• Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2008
• B.A., Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997

Sam is now a spatial ecologist with PRBO Conservation Science, though he continues to work on several projects with the Williams Lab

Jeremiah Marsicek email | website

• Post-baccalaureat Research Technician, Williams Lab
• B.S., Physical Geography (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• 2007 Pathways Scholars Program
  

Jeremiah is attending graduate school at the University of Wyoming (Department of Geology and Geophysics), where he works with Bryan Shuman

Leila M. Gonzales, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Department of Geography (2009), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dominique Alhambra

B.A.in Anthropology & Spanish (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dominique is currently an Anthropology Collections Intern at the Chicago Field Museum in Acquisitions Collections curation.

Katherine Lininger email

B.A. in Physical Geography & Political Science (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Katherine completed her Honors Thesis in December 2007. In Spring 2008, she participated in a tropical conservation study-abroad program in Ecuador. In 2008, she was an intern at National Geographic.