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Name Raymond Coveney Ph.D.
Title
Professor
Research Description
Metal pollutants from the weathering of black shales in Kansas City area.
Research related to Life and Environmental Sciences:
Prof. Raymond Coveney received the N.T. Veatch Award in 1986 for work on the geochemistry of American black shales, funded by the Weldon Springs Endowment Fund of the University of Missouri and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Along with American and Chinese collaborators Coveney has been involved with tracking pollutants, including metals and organic compounds, emanating from shales and industrial sources in Asia and North America.
Coveney has supervised the programs of 15 MS and 2 PhD graduates, most of whom have studied the occurrence of heavy metals in shales of the Midwest and China. Coveney’s group has greatly expanded the known extent of enriched amounts of Zn, Cd, V, Se and other heavy metals in black shales of the Midwest beyond what was previously known. Coveney and associates have studied unique platinum-bearing Ni-As-Mo deposits in Cambrian shales in China that formed around the time of the Explosion of Life around the start of the Cambrian. It is no mere coincidence that the Chinese deposits are located in a region well-known for substantial health problems involving thousands of individuals that result from the heavy concentrations of As, F, Mo, and Hg.
Email coveneyr@umkc.edu
Office
402-f Flarsheim Hall
Personal Web Page
CV
R Coveney CV2 NSF 05-2009.pdf
Degrees
B.S., M.S., PhD
Schools
Tufts ; U Michigan – Ann Arbor
Research Area
Geology, Mineral Resources, Environmental Geochemistry
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