User:Raymond coveney

Raymond Martin Coveney Jr. is a professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, he holds a B.S. degree in geology from Tufts University. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the tutelage of Professor William C. Kelly. Coveney has worked in mineral exploration for the New Jersey Zinc Company in Hanover, NM and as a geologist for the Dickey Exploration Company at the Oriental mine in Alleghany, CA, but for 42 years (1971-2013) was a professor of geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research focuses on Mother Lode-type gold ores, hyperenriched metalliferous black shales in the USA and China, fluid inclusions in ores, and chemical pollutants in China. Professor Coveney is a National Science Foundation grantee who has published more than 50 articles on mineral deposits and the environment in professional journals. He served as interim dean of the UMKC College of Arts & Sciences 1992-1993 and as chair of the Department of Geosciences 1990-1991 and 1995-2004, interim chair of the Sociology Department in 2010 and of the Art and Art History Department from 2012 to 2013. He is a senior fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Society of Economic Geologists. Coveney can be contacted at coveneyr@umkc.edu or through the Department of Geosciences, UMKC, Kansas City MO 64110 USA (tel. +1 816 235 1334).