Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.32
Liaison R. Johnston
Submission Date Nov. 30, 2012
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University of Missouri, Kansas City
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 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

The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
24

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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Brief descriptions of up to 4 recent notable accomplishments by faculty engaged in sustainability research, including names and department affiliations:
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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