Critical Minerals and Materials: A Community Science Campaign Meeting (November 2025)

Описание: The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) convened a two-day meeting at which researchers worked to identify and prioritize critical minerals and materials (CMM) research needs aligned to EMSL's goals and the research priorities of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program.

EMSL welcomed three keynote speakers:

Heileen Hsu-Kim
🔹Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
🔹Presentation: “Resourcing Critical Minerals from Waste Streams: Lessons Learned from Extracting Rare Earths from Acid Mine Drainage”

Rene Boiteau
🔹Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
🔹Presentation: “Mining Environmental Microbiomes for Selective Metallophores”

Scott Angle
🔹Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Florida
🔹Presentation: “Phytomining: Past, Present, Future, and Gaps”

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EMSL supports science at scale to accelerate fundamental breakthroughs that cannot be achieved by individual researchers and teams. Community science campaigns mobilize the collective strength of the research community and leverage cutting-edge capabilities to generate large-scale structured data that supports better process understanding and physics- and AI-based analysis and modeling.

Visit EMSL's website to learn more: https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction to EMSL
4:20 Community Science Campaigns Overview
8:20 Environmental Transformations and Interactions Campaigns
18:07 Resourcing Critical Minerals from Waste Streams
57:27 Mining Environmental Microbiomes for Selective Metallophores
1:40:18 Phytomining: Past, Present, Future, and Gaps
2:16:35 Keynote Speaker Roundtable Discussion
2:28:22 Conclusion