RSS 1.0Department of Geosciences (UMKC)
The Geosciences Department offers coursework in most of the major fields within the geosciences leading to undergraduate degrees in environmental science, environmental studies, geography and geology
Students have the opportunity to study different facets of the environment including: environmental issues and geospatial methods, natural hazards, environmental remediation, waste management, air and water pollution, resource evaluation and management, geoarcheology, historical geography and urban land use planning.
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Conformational and Structural Investigation of Substituted Hydrocarbons and Ring Compounds by Vibrational and Microwave Spectroscopy
(2016)The physiochemical properties of a molecule of interest are usually obtained from its molecular structure, and it involves the orientation of one part of the molecule about a particular bond with respect to the rest ... -
Structure and Mechanical Properties of Cement and Intermetallic Compounds via ab-initio Simulations
(2015)Calcium silicate hydrates comprise a class of minerals formed synthetically during Portland cement hydration or naturally through various geological processes. The importance of these minerals is immense since they are the ... -
Raman, Infrared and Microwave Spectra, Conformational Stability, R₀ Structural Parameters and Vibrational Assignments of Some Organoamines, Organophosphines, Alcohols And Substituted Four And Five Membered Rings
(2014)The infrared and Raman spectra of compounds with amino, phosphours, silane and hydroxyl functional groups, as well as some with cyclic skeletal structures have been recorded of the gas and in condensed phases. Temperature ... -
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)-Based Conjugated Macrocycles and Polymers For Electronic Applications
(2014)Due to the high tendency to form π-stacked ordered phases, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are attractive building blocks for the assembly of conjugated systems for electronic applications. The body of this ... -
Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)Climate change and climate variability affect all sectors of the environment, but agriculture is the most impacted because food production is highly sensitive to weather. The impact of changing climate is evident in the ... -
Scientific Evidence on the Environmental and Health Effects of Land Application of Biosolids
(2015-08-12)The study is an objective evaluation of the controversy on whether the practice of land application of biosolids for soil enrichment and restoration poses significant harm to the environment, human and animal health. ... -
Effect of Cooling Rates on Mineralization in Portland Cement Clinker
(2015-08-12)The rate at which cement clinker is cooled as it exits the kiln has long been known to be an important factor in cement quality. Cooling rate is one of the variables that has a significant impact on the minerals produced ... -
Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
(2015-08-11)This dissertation centers on the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change ... -
Preparation, Characterization and Performance Study of Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals for the Lithium-Ion Battery
(2015-08-04)The lithium-ion battery is one of the most widely used rechargeable batteries in today’s life. As an energy storage device, it can convert the stored chemical energy into electrical energy when it is being used. Titanium ... -
New applications of STEPL watershed modeling of CAFO feedlot runoff and implications of surface water impacts
(2015-07-27)Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) cattle feedlot runoff is hydrologically modeled using the Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutants Load (STEPL). STEPL estimates the annual nutrient load of nitrogen and ... -
Conformational and Structural Determinations of Substituted Four and Five Membered Rings by Infrared, Raman, and Microwave Spectral Studies
(2014)Studies of the structure and conformational stabilities of molecules have become increasingly important due in part to advances in the fields of biochemistry and nanochemistry. Specifically the conformation of organoamines ... -
Effects of Selected Contaminants on the Physical, Chemical, and Geotechnical Properties of Aquifer Solid
(2014)The primary objective of this study was to investigate the potential effects of hydrocarbons on the geotechnical properties of sand. A series of laboratory experiments were carried out to ascertain the influence of some ... -
Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Scoured Bridge Systems
(2014)Bridges are a vital infrastructure component of the transportation networks in both rural and urban areas. Damaged or destroyed bridges can affect the reliability and resilience of transportation networks that are critical ... -
Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
(2014-09-30)This study employed an integrated approach to investigate drivers and impacts of environmental change from the 1980s to 2012 using geospatial and statistical analyses of atmospheric, climate, land use land cover, and ... -
Assessment of Seismic Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Aqaba
(2014-09-26)Aqaba and Elat are very important port and recreation cities for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Israel, respectively. The two cities are the most susceptible to damage from a destructive future earthquake because they ... -
A Knowledge-based approach of satellite image classification for urban wetland detection
(2014-07-30)It has been a technical challenge to accurately detect urban wetlands with remotely sensed data by means of pixel-based image classification. This is mainly caused by inadequate spatial resolutions of satellite imagery, ... -
Evolution of the Bahamian coastal environment of San Salvador Island over the last 3,500 years based on triangle pond sediment cores
(2014-07-25)The multiproxy examination of ten soft sediment cores extracted from Triangle Pond was used in order to establish alterations in the northwestern coastal environment of San Salvador Island, The Bahamas over the last 3,500 ... -
Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology along the Southern Dead Sea Transform in Wadi 'Arabah Near the municipality of Aqaba, Jordan
(2013)The southern Wadi ‘Arabah Valley in Jordan provides an ideal location to investigate both the paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of the region because it is situated directly along the active Dead Sea transform, and ... -
Impacts of Precipitation, Land use Land cover and Soil type on the Water Balance of Lake Chad Basin
(2013)Lake Chad Basin (LCB) has experienced drastic changes in land cover and poor water management practices during the last 50 years. The successive droughts in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in a decrease in surface water and ... -
The Ebb and flow of policy, economics, and science: an analysis of policy drivers in the Missouri River Basin
(2013)The Missouri River basin underwent a major transformation when the United States Congress approved the Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project of 1945. Generations removed from those ...