Office: 420G Flarsheim Hall

Phone: 816 2352979

Email: murowchickj@umkc.edu

 

Associate Professor James Murowchick, MS & Ph.D., Penn State, specializes in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. His most recent research focuses on iron sulfides, including formation and transformation reaction mechanisms. These are investigated using X-ray diffraction, computational chemistry, and petrographic methods. Dr. Murowchick also has published stable isotope, petrographic, and ore genesis research on Cambrian black shale-hosted Ni-Mo deposits in southern China, and stable isotope studies of gold deposits in southern British Columbia. For the past 12 years, he has investigated a variety of problems related to the use and deterioration of architectural use of stone. Currently, he is involved with a geochemical study of urbanized streams, especially Brush Creek in the Kansas City area. Dr. Murowchick teaches courses in mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, polarized light microscopy, geology field camp, X-ray diffraction methods, and analysis using the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. He has been a councilor with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and is currently a Councilor with the Council on Undergraduate Research. He is also the principal graduate Advisor for Geosciences at UMKC, and directs Students Engaged in Artistic and Academic Research (SEARCH), which promotes and supports undergraduate research at UMKC.

 

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