| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.32 |
| Liaison | R. Johnston |
| Submission Date | Nov. 30, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Missouri, Kansas City
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research
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10.00 / 10.00 |
R. Kaye
Johnston Sustainability Coordinator Campus Facilities |
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The number of faculty members engaged in sustainability research:
11
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The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
24
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Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
Jimmy Adegoke
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Climate variability, climate change impacts, satellite climatology, regional climate modeling, environmental remote sensing and urban meteorology.
E-mail:adegokej@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2978
Raymond M. Coveney Jr.
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental chemistry, sustainability of natural resources, metamorphic hosted gold ores, Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits, and metalliferous black shales
E-mail: coveneyr@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2980
Caroline Davies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environmental science, biogeography, paleoclimatology, climate change geoarchaeology, and human-landscape relationships
E-mail: daviesc@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1335
Steven L. Driever
Professor
Research Interests: Geography of Spain and Latin America, literature and environment, cultural geography, and historical geography
E-mail: drievers@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2971
Syed E. Hasan
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental and engineering geology, waste management & medical geology
E-mail: hasans@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2976
Daniel P. Hopkins
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Historical geography of the colonial world, history and philosophy of cartography
E-mail: hopkinsd@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2973
Wei Ji
Professor
Research Interests: GIS, remote sensing, landscape ecology, land use planning, resource assessment
E-mail: jiwei@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2981
Jejung Lee
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, hydroinformatics, environmental geophysics, computational modeling, geostatistics.
E-mail: leej@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-6495
James B. Murowchick
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Research Interests: Geochemistry, environmental chemistry, instrumental analysis including x-ray diffraction and ICPMS, ore deposits, metallic sulfide minerals, and ore petrology
E-mail: murowchickj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2979
Tina M. Niemi
Professor
Research Interests: Neotectonics, Quaternary and environmental geology, and geoarcheology
E-mail: niemit@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5342
Julie Urbanik
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Role of gender in environmental politics and impact of controversial technologies like genetic engineering on animal bodies.
E-mail: urbanikj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5150
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Analytical instrumentation: inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS), X-ray diffraction and fluorescence, atomic absorption, gas chromatography, infrared spectroscopy, particle size analyzer, Geographic Information System (GIS), uni-axial compression tester and other geotechnical testing equipment
Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modeling: Two Computer laboratories with state-of-the-art Geographic Information Science (GIS) and Satellite Image Processing Software are available to support the research of CAER affiliated faculty and students. A 24-node PC-based computing cluster for regional climate modeling is housed in the Laboratory for Climate Analysis and Modeling (LCAM). This cluster and other high-end Unix computers support CAER's climate impact research.
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