Robert (Bob) Kuzelka

Robert (Bob) Kuzelka

Contact Information

TitleEmeritus - Environmental Planning
Faculty RankAssociate Professor Emeritus
Address No Address NE


Off Campus
E-mailrkuzelka1@unl.edu

 

Contact Preference

Phone Numbers: Primary: 402-417-9424 | Secondary: 402-475-0221

Office Hours

By Appointment Only

My Story

Bob Kuzelka likes water and natural resources especially their policy aspects and is an associate professor emeritus in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

He holds degrees in architecture from UNL; and Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin and conducted post-graduate research in Town and Country Planning at Sydney University in Australia, under a Fulbright Post Graduate Fellowship.

Bob served as an officer in the U S Army.

His professional experience includes work as an architect, a planner for a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a policy coordinator on the staff of the Nebraska State Office of Planning and Programming (now the Governor's Policy Research Office).

He was a full-time faculty member at UNL from in 1979 to 2004. During those years he was affiliated with the Conservation and Survey Division; Department of Community and Regional Planning; Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife; University of Nebraska Water Center; and the School of Natural Resources. From 2001 to 2008, he served as the director of UNL's interdisciplinary environmental studies program.

Bob's academic research interests are in the areas of public policy and planning. He still advises undergraduate and master's level students in thesis and professional projects for topics that interest him.

Bob's outside interests include architecture, cemeteries, chamber music, cities, cycling, opera, swimming and travel.

Selected Publications

Kuzelka, R., Leonard, R., Seacrest, S. 2000. Global Climate Change and Public Perception: The Challenge of Translation. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 36(2):253-263.
Flowerday, C. A., Kuzelka, R. D., Pederson, D. T. (1998). The Groundwater Atlas of Nebraska, Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska, Resource Atlas 4a, 44 p
Kuzelka, R.D., Flowerday, C.A. 1993. Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water. Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska. pp. 291. Online
Kuzelka, Robert D. 1969. The Tiger's Back "A Report on Australian Organizations for Metropolitan Planning Administration" The Planning Research Centre, University of Sydney Online

Background

Education

DegreeMajorInstitutionYear Awarded
Other Town and Country Planning Sydney University, Australia 1968
Master of Arts Community and Regional Planning University of Texas 1967
Bachelor of Arts Architecture University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1962

 

Affiliations

 

Awards

TitleAwarded byYear Awarded
Maurice Kremer Groundwater Achievement Award The Groundwater Foundation 2014
Lincoln-Lancaster Environmental Leadership Award 2011

 

Professional Organizations

NamePosition
American Institue of Certified Planners
American Institue of Certified Planners Life Member (2004)

 

Websites

 

SNR Program Areas

  • Environmental Science