The Faculty
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respective profiles.
Raymond M.
Coveney, Jr. Ph.D. (Michigan).
Professor and Chair, metamorphic hosted gold
ores, Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits, and metalliferous black
shales.
Steven L.
Driever Ph.D. (Georgia).
Professor, geography of Spain and Latin
America, literature and environment, cultural geography, and historical
geography.
Syed E. Hasan
Ph.D. (Purdue).
Professor, environmental and engineering
geology, waste management.
Daniel P.
Hopkins Ph.D. (Louisiana State).
Associate Professor, historical geography of
the colonial world, history and philosophy of cartography.
Wei (Wayne) Ji
Ph.D. (U. of Connecticut)
Associate Professor, GIS (geograhic
information systems), remote sensing, landscape ecology, land use planning,
resource assessment.
James B.
Murowchick Ph.D. (Penn State).
Associate Professor, geochemistry, ore
deposits, metallic sulfide minerals, and ore petrology.
Tina M. Niemi
Ph.D. (Stanford).
Associate Professor, neotectonics, Quaternary
and environmental geology, and geoarcheology.
Caroline Davies
Ph.D. (Arizona)
Assistant Professor, environmental science,
biogeography, paleoclimatology, human-landscape relationships, and climate
change.
Jimmy Adegoke
Ph.D. (Penn State)
Assistant Professor, environmental science,
land surface-climate interactions, satellite- climatology, climate modeling,
and boundary layer meteorology.
Jejung Lee Ph.D. (Northwestern)
Assistant Professor,
environmental science, hydrogeology, geophysics,
contaminant transport and remedial design, environmental geophysics,
hydroinformatics, computational modeling, geostatistics.
Emeritus Faculty
Richard J. Gentile Ph.D. (Missouri-Rolla).
Professor Emeritus, cyclical stratigraphy and
paleontology of Pennsylvanian rocks of western Missouri.
Edwin D. Goebel Ph.D. (Kansas).
Professor Emeritus, conodonts and fluid
inclusions in Paleozoic rocks of the Midwest.
Paul L. Hilpman Ph.D. (Kansas).
Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center
for Underground Studies, fluid movement (water, radon, and hazardous wastes)
in the shallow subsurface environment of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Adjunct Faculty
Dale W. Blevins M.S., hydrology (Arizona).
Passede Calabi Ph.D., environmental sciences
(Boston) Visiting professor.
Anil Misra Ph.D., civil and environmental
engineering (Massachusetts).
Deborah J. Mossman Ph.D., civil and
environmental engineering (Iowa).
Jerry Richardson Ph.D., civil and
environmental engineering (Colorado State).
Staff
Sophie Sherman
Department Office Manager