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Laboratories
On August 13, 1999, the Department of Geosciences moved into the new Robert H. Flarsheim Hall, the largest construction project ever completed on the UMKC campus. In this 194,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art building, the Department of Geosciences has nine research laboratories and five teaching laboratories. Please click here for additional information on our research and teaching laboratories.
Museum
The Geosciences Museum, which was recently relocated to 271 Flarsheim Hall, holds more than 3,000 specimens from around the world. Particularly noteworthy exhibits include magnificent 290 million year old crinoid fossils collected during the construction of the Emery Bird Thayer department store in downtown Kansas City in the early part of the last century, a massive fulgurite, “fossil lightning bolt” collected 3 years ago in Clay County Missouri, and a dinosaur egg from the Gobi Desert of China. In addition to relief maps of the continents and a unique relief model of the geology of Kansas City, the museum also contains examples of antique scientific instruments and interactive displays utilized in science courses.The benefactor and founder of the Geosciences Museum was Richard L. Sutton, Jr., M.D., physician and adjunct Professor of Geology, UMKC. The museum hours are 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m Monday through Friday.
Equipment
The Department has a wide variety of field and laboratory equipment. Recent equipment additions include a Rigaku X-ray diffract meter, a Coulter laser diffraction particle size analyzer, 15 dedicated Dell PC's for the Department's GIS lab, another 15 Dell PC's for the Environmental Science teaching lab, two field vehicles (including a four-wheel drive off the road SUV), various GPS devices covering a full range of precision from reconnaissance to the sub centimeter level, a total station, and a Varian 600 ICPMS.
Libraries
Linda Hall Library, a preeminent independent research library of science and technology, is located a few steps from Flarsheim Hall