Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography Alyson Fleming is the director of public-private partnerships for the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. With a background in oceanography, Dr. Fleming has worked in academia and policy, researching top predators and climate change, developing federal policy recommendations, and contributing to international fora across fisheries, climate, and protected species management. Prior to joining UW–Madison, …
Biography Holly Gibbs is passionate about leading Land Systems Science that matters for the world. She directs a large research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she is a professor in the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies’ Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. She uses interdisciplinary methods including GIS, …
Departmental Website Departmental Profile Biography Dr. Goldstein is broadly interested in the gendered aspects of human and nonhuman health, a quickly heating planet and environmental racism. Her current book project Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold Along the Interoceanic Highway examines the socio-environmental consequences of transnational infrastructure projects and climate change along Latin America’s recently constructed thoroughfare, La Interoceánica, …
Biography Thomas M. Grist, MD, FACR, received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, in 1981, and his doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1985. He completed his radiology residency at Duke University in Durham, NC. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department …
Biography Paul Kelleher is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Philosophy. He received a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Program in Ethics & Health at Harvard University. Professor Kelleher …
Biography Dr. Klinger’s research focuses on the dynamics of global resource frontiers and space-based technologies with particular emphases in China, Brazil, and the United States, where she has conducted extensive ethnographic, qualitative, and quantitative fieldwork over the past 15 years. Her research examines how diverse forms of violence and strategies for survival shape land use, …
Biography My research examines the environmental politics of energy transitions, with a focus on electricity infrastructure. How can we think spatially about justice, democracy, expertise, and participation in and through energy transitions and infrastructure systems? I explore how “green-on-green” conflict arises when the need for decarbonization comes into friction with mandates for greater public participation …
Biography Dr. Larson’s research and extension interests include all areas of biological waste including manure management, handling and treatment of agricultural waste, diffuse source pollution, agricultural sustainability, and waste-to-energy technologies including biogas production from anaerobic digestion.
Biography Dr. Loheide leads the Hydroecology and Ecosystem Engineering research group, which is interested in science and engineering aspects of the movement of water through the environment as related to the complex and changing interactions among water needed for municipal and industrial uses, agriculture, and natural ecosystems. Much of the group’s efforts are focused on …