Michael J. Day, Professor

Office: Bolton Hall 456
Phone: 414-229-3942
Fax: 414-229-3981
Email: mickday@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
Professor Michael J. Day
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Education:
D.Phil., Geomorphology, Oxford University, England, 1978
B.Sc., Geography, Birmingham University, England, 1973

Current Courses: Spring 2008
Geography (GEOG) 424
MW 9:30-10:45am

Office Hours:
By appointment only

Research and Teaching Interests:
Geomorphology, especially Karst Landscapes
Conservation, Protected Areas
The Caribbean and Central America
Southeast Asia

Representative Publications:
Karstic problems in the construction of Milwaukee's Deep Tunnels, Environmental Geology, 45(6), 2004, pp. 859-863.

Military campaigns in tropical karst terrain: the Maroon Wars of Jamaica, In Studies in Military Geography and Geology, edited by D.R. Caldwell, J. Ehlen and R.S. Harmon, Kluwer, Dordecht, 2004, pp. 79-88.

The karstlands of Trinidad and Tobago, their land use and conservation (with M.S. Chenoweth), The Geographical Journal, 170(3), 2004, pp. 256-266.

Landform differentiation within the Gunung Kidul kegelkarst, Java, Indonesia (with E. Haryono), The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 66(2), 2004, pp. 62-69.

An assessment of karstic collapse hazards at Mount Rosser, Ewarton, Jamaica, In Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, edited by B.F. Beck, American Society of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Special Publication 122, 2003, pp. 40-49.

Faunal associations with karst landscapes: a preliminary assessment of bird observations, Belize, Cave and Karst Science, 30(3), 2003, pp. 101-106.

The role of valley systems in the evolution of tropical karstlands, In Evolution of Karst: From Prekarst to Cessation, edited by F. Gabrovsek, Zalozba ZRC, 2002, pp. 235-241.