Focus Areas

Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems

• Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
• Jaeheon Lee – metal recycling from e-waste
• Dean Riley – mapping acid mine drainage
• Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
• Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse

Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Tailings

• Angelina Anani – analysis and visualization of rock displacement data
• John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
• Moe Momayez – slope failure prediction
• Dean Riley – correlation of spectroscopic measurements with rock’s mechanical and physical properties, underground facility characterization
• Brad Ross – rock fall detection and monitoring
• Muhammad Waqas – geomechanics, water in mine operations, slope stability, rock excavation

Geophysical Sensing Techniques

• Gail Heath – resistivity, electrical methods
• Moe Momayez – electrical resistivity
• Dean Riley – magnetics, gravity, radiometrics, remote sensing (VNIR-SWIR, MWIR-LWIR), synthetic aperture radar, thermal imaging
• Ben K. Sternberg – ground-penetrating radar, electrical methods

Mine Health and Safety

• Angelina Anani – risk analysis for decision support
• Eric Lutz – operational risk management, exposure science, industrial hygiene, safety, leadership development
• Moe Momayez – heat stress monitoring, mine ventilation
• Kray Luxbacher – risk management, mine fire prevention and simulation, ventilation engineering, occupational health
• Brad Ross – risk analysis, safety

Mine Sensor Technology

• Isabel Barton – hyperspectral imaging, infrared spectroscopy, remote sensing
• Gail Heath
• John Kemeny
• Moe Momayez
• Dean Riley – hyperspectral imaging, synthetic aperture radar, gps, remote sensing, unmanned aerial systems, unmanned ground vehicles, lidar, image analysis, software automation, data science and analytics, sensor fusion and integration, gas emissions
• Muhammad Waqas – equipment operations, surface mine planning

Mine Technology and Automation

• Angelina Anani – mine planning and production scheduling tools, application of AI and immersive simulation (VR) technology, discrete event simulation, equipment reliability studies
• John Kemeny – image analysis, software implementation
• Pinnaduwa Kulatilake – neural networks
• Kray Luxbacher – ventilation on demand technology, design of automated systems
• Moe Momayez – smart mining, distributed sensor networks, machine learning
• Victor Tenorio – underground mine planning, automation, fleet management, immersive simulation, autonomous equipment, digital mining, control rooms, virtual & augmented reality

Mineral and Chemical Characterization

• Isabel Barton – electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, hyperspectral sensing, ore deposit characterization
• John Kemeny – lidar, contact probe scanning
• Dean Riley – ore deposit characterization, raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, reflectance and emittance imaging spectroscopy, mineral chemistry, lidar, XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, EPMA, SEM, correlation of a rock’s spectroscopic measurements with its chemical and mineral-chemical properties
• Jinhong Zhang – atomic force microscopy

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
• Dean Riley – process mineralogy, geometallurgy
• Jinhong Zhang – comminution, flotation chemistry

Space Mining, Underwater and Deep Mining

• Victor Tenorio – centralized supervision, tele-command, moon mine planning, off-the-earth mining methods, underwater robotic systems

 

Sustainable Mining and Development

• Angelina Anani – environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), mine impact analysis
• Moe Momayez – renewable energy, energy efficiency
• Dean Riley – renewable energy, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), community relations, critical and strategic minerals including supply chain risk management
• Brad Ross – artisanal mining, community engagement, sustainability