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The Faculty

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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

                                                                                                               

 

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