!Geography Faculty Information
This list of Geography Faculty involves mainly just the faculty members who have the most direct contact with the helpdesk, through recurring computer issues or software needs. 
!Amy Burnicki
Her office is directly below ours and you may hear her answering machine from time to time.  She has a pretty awesome computer, but needs old [Arcview] extensions installed, as well as statistical modeling programs which we don't seem to have. She teaches map reading. I always get her confused with Kim Coulter, but other people don't.
!Jim Burt
Jim has pretty high expectations for the functionality of the [380] lab.  He's a pretty adept computer programmer,  his office is between Bob Kaiser and Jack Williams' on the 4th floor.  His needs include, making sure that the instructor computer in 380 looks and functions EXACTLY like the student computers and ensuring that all the computers are turned on. 
!Leila Harris
She's got a computer with a DVD burner that never works, she calls fairly regularly, but never stops by the office
!Mark Harrower
He teaches the GIS classes and is in charge of one of the campus map projects.  His classes require that ARCGIS workstation, and more specifically ArcMap, functions properly. He also is the person who wants Google Earth and other Geovisualization tools installed on the computers. His office is on the second floor. He has a Macintosh G5 with a flakey hard drive. 
!Bob Kaiser
His office is on the 4th floor in the north east corner of the building.  He's got a nice laptop which occasionally has problems connecting to a projector.  The video card for his laptop has special software which should automatically detect a projector plugged in, but it gets overridden by the windows desktop manager.
!Jim Knox
Jim's office is on the second floor right next to the men's bathroom.  His office is really a suite of offices with a number of ancient computers and soil samples in the other room.  His computers are a monsterous Dell and a Dell laptop.  He has occasional problems connecting to the internet and his email settings get messed up occasionally.  Some day he's going to need new drivers for his Nikon slide scanner, remember it only works in windows 2000. 
!Joe Mason
He went to China in 2006 and needed to connect to our mail server.  He also is constantly using Erdas 9.0 (probably the only one) 
!Lisa Naughton
She occasionally has projector problems.  Occasionally she has brought her laptop in to have her data archived. 
!Kris Olds
He has an intel mac which works a lot better than his old mac.  His main complaints have been email related, but should die down since we switched to wiscmail plus.  His office is around the corner from the 380 lab
!Bob Sack
He hasn't had too many problems recently. But when he does, it's a good idea to fix them quick.
!Matt Turner
Matt Turner is the department chair and he brings his wife's laptop in for us to fix from time to time. He has an office on the third floor and first floor. 
!Jack Williams
Jack has two offices (one on the second floor and one on the fourth) Also, he has a PC (2nd floor office), a Laptop and a Macintosh G5 (4th floor office). His PC and laptop are custom made by a company from northern minnesota.  It is pretty tough to find drivers for his machines, so ask him for all the CD's and updgrade from those drivers.  He needs SSH connection to his modeling file server [Mamaduck].  He requires that EdGCM, a climate change modeling program, be installed and up to date on an unfrozen partition on all lab machines.  You will need to coordinate this with him as it may involve unfreezing computers so they don't reboot over night.
!A-Xing Zhu
He rarely has any dealings with us, but his class requires Python to be run from ArcCatalog, which gets messed up when newer versions of Arc are installed. 
!Karl Zimmerer
Karl was the department chair before Matt Turner. His office is very close, so never hesitate to pop on down when he's on the phone.  His issues include:
*Printing to M376 color printer.
*Scanning in slides with his TA.
*Printing to his own printer.
*Accessing and updating networked drives.
*Finding the right email, web browsing and firewall software.
*Installing air conditioning.