Faculty
Jimmy Adegoke
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Climate variability, climate change impacts, satellite
climatology, regional climate modeling, environmental remote sensing and urban
meteorology.
E-mail:adegokej@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2978
Raymond M. Coveney Jr.
Professor
Research Interests: Metamorphic hosted gold ores, Mississippi Valley-type
lead-zinc deposits, and metalliferous black shales
E-mail: coveneyr@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2980
Caroline Davies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environmental science, biogeography, paleoclimatology,
climate change geoarchaeology, and human-landscape relationships
E-mail: daviesc@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1335
Steven L. Driever
Professor
Research Interests: Geography of Spain and Latin America, literature and
environment, cultural geography, and historical geography
E-mail: drievers@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2971
Syed E. Hasan
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental and engineering geology, waste management
& medical geology
E-mail: hasans@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2976
Daniel P. Hopkins
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Historical geography of the colonial world, history
and philosophy of cartography
E-mail: hopkinsd@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2973
Wei Ji
Professor
Research Interests: GIS, remote sensing, landscape ecology, land use planning,
resource assessment
E-mail: jiwei@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2981
Jejung Lee
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, hydroinformatics, environmental geophysics,
computational modeling, geostatistics.
E-mail: leej@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-6495
James B. Murowchick
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Geochemistry, ore deposits, metallic sulfide minerals, and
ore petrology
E-mail: murowchickj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2979
Tina M. Niemi
Professor
Research Interests: Neotectonics, Quaternary and environmental geology, and
geoarcheology
E-mail: niemit@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5342
Julie Urbanik
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Role of gender in environmental politics and impact of
controversial technologies like genetic engineering on animal bodies.
E-mail: urbanikj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5150