Focus Areas

Revegetation Post Mining
Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems
- Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
- Kwangmin Kim – dust control
- Jaeheon Lee – metal recycling from e-waste
- Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
- Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse

Mining Slope Failure
Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Tailings
- John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
- Kwangmin Kim – fragmentation, excavation, tailings containment
- Moe Momayez—slope failure prediction
- Brad Ross – geotechnics, slope failures

Conducting an electrical resistivity study
Geophysical Sensing Techniques
- Gail Heath – resistivity, electrical methods
- Moe Momayez – electrical resistivity
- Ben K. Sternberg – ground-penetrating radar, electrical methods

Mine Health and Safety
- Moe Momayez – heat stress monitoring, mine ventilation
- Brad Ross – risk analysis, safety

Drone equipped with sensors at mine site
Mine Sensor Technology

Groundprobe slope stability radar technology in action
Mine Technology and Automation
- John Kemeny – image analysis, software implementation
- P.H.S.W. Kulatilake – neural networks
- Moe Momayez – smart mining, distributed sensor networks, machine learning
- Victor Octavio Tenorio – underground mine planning, automation, fleet management, immersive simulation, autonomous equipment, digital mining, control rooms, virtual & augmented reality

Grad student using the SEM lab
Mineral and Chemical Characterization
- Isabel Barton – electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, hyperspectral sensing, ore deposit characterization
- John Kemeny – lidar, contact probe scanning
- Kwangmin Kim – hyperspectral sensing, lidar
- Jinhong Zhang – atomic force microscopy

Metallurgy in action
Mineral Processing, Geometallurgy and Extractive Metallurgy
- Isabel Barton – process mineralogy, geometallurgy
- J. Brent Hiskey – hydrometallurgy, leaching kinetics, electrochemistry
- Jaeheon Lee – bioleaching, bio-oxidation, hydrometallurgy, novel lixiviants
- Jinhong Zhang – comminution, flotation chemistry
Space Mining, Underwater and Deep Mining
- Victor Octavio Tenorio – centralized supervision, tele-command, moon mine planning, off-the-earth mining methods, underwater robotic systems

Solar panels being installed at a mine site
Sustainable Mining and Development
- Moe Momayez – renewable energy, energy efficiency
- Rosa Rojas – diversity in mining
- Brad Ross – artisanal mining, community engagement, sustainability
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