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Center for Applied Environmental Research (CAER)
CAER was established in 1996 and is part of the Department of Geosciences. The mission of the Center is to provide excellence in environmental education, training, and research using an interdisciplinary approach. CAER draws upon the expertise of UMKC faculty belonging to its 13 schools/colleges that include, the physical, mathematical and biological sciences; social and human sciences, law; medicine; pharmacy; nursing; and education. The intellectual resources available to CAER cover a wide spectrum in the environmental field including atmospheric pollution, global warming, hazard assessment and mitigation; disaster preparedness, environmental economics, law, and policies; environmental health, waste management, pollution abatement, and resource conservation. Prof. Syed Hasan serves as the Director of the Center.
Faculty Research
Geosciences faculty members are engaged in research programs designed to advance knowledge of both natural and human environments. Current efforts include earthquake research in California, the American Midwest, and the Middle East; investigations of mineral resources around the globe; historical studies of environmentally-centered political and aesthetic movements in Europe in the nineteenth-century and the significance of Enlightenment-era natural history and cartography in colonialism; the development and dissemination of techniques of assessing and containing the risks of hazardous wastes; geochemical tracking and analysis; climate modeling and prediction studies; wetlands and ecosystem dynamics research; and paleoclimate studies.
Geosciences faculty have been the recipients of grants from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Fund, U. S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. In addition, external grants from the following sources have been awarded during the past few years: NASA, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Eisenhower Fund of the State of Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education, the Geological Society of America, the Institute of Instructional Development of the State of Missouri, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.