Keyword Topic: Environmental Policy

Iris Bahar, PhD

Iris Bahar, PhD

Computer Science

Department Head & Professor

ribahar@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Foundations | Frontiers

Research Focus Areas: Innovation in Computing | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Robotics for the Modern World | Transforming Engineering Education & STEM Workforce

Keywords: Embedded Systems | Engineering Educational Innovation | Environmental Policy | High Performance Computing | Human Robot Interaction | Interdisciplinary Education | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Robot Architectural Design | Robot Grasping & Manipulation | Robot Perception | Security & Privacy | Sustainable Resource Management

Jared Carbone

Jared Carbone

Economics & Business

Professor

jcarbone@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Energy | Environment

Research Focus Areas: Carbon Management & Air Quality | Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Energy in Global Context | Environment Climate & Society | Environmental & Climate Data Science

Keywords: Climate Adaptation | Climate Change | Data Science | Decarbonization Strategies | Energy Efficiency | Energy Policy | Energy-Water Nexus | Environmental Policy | Human Dimensions of Environment & Climate Changes | Industrial Emissions Monitoring & Control | Reducing Emissions | Regulatory Policy | Renewable Energy | Watershed Management

Hojun Choi, PhD

Hojun Choi, PhD

Economics & Business

Assistant Professor

hojun.choi@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy | Environment | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Energy in Global Context | Environment Climate & Society | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Natural Resource Geopolitics & Economics

Keywords: Conflict & Resource Management | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Energy Policy | Environmental Policy | Global Supply Chains | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Supply Chain Resilience | Sustainable Resource Management

Will Fleckenstein, PhD, PE

Will Fleckenstein, PhD, PE

Global Initiatives

Director of Strategic Business Development, Office of Global Initiatives and Business Development

wflecken@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy | Environment

Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | Managing Earth's Water Resources | Optimizing Fossil Fuels

Keywords: Advanced Resource Recovery | Clean Technology Innovation | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Decarbonization Strategies | Energy Storage | Energy Systems Optimization | Energy-Water Nexus | Enhanced Mineral Extraction | Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery | Environmental Policy | Fracturing Acidizing & Stimulation | Geothermal Exploration & Energy Technologies | Glaciology | Groundwater Contamination | Human Health Risk Assessment | Hybrid Energy Systems | In-Situ Recovery | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Reducing Emissions | Renewable Energy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Subsurface Fluid Dynamics | Systems for Extreme Environments | Unconventional Reservoirs

Ben Gilbert, PhD

Ben Gilbert, PhD

Economics & Business

Associate Professor

bgilbert@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Energy | Environment | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Carbon Management & Air Quality | Communication & Public Engagement | Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Energy in Global Context | Engineering Global Sustainability | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Environment Climate & Society | Environmental & Climate Data Science | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance

Keywords: Economic Modeling | Energy Economics | Energy Policy | Environmental Policy | Innovation Adoption Barriers | International Trade & Energy Markets | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Policy Analysis | Reducing Emissions | Resource Economics

Kathleen Hancock, PhD

Kathleen Hancock, PhD

Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Associate Professor

khancock@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Energy | Environment | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Environment Climate & Society | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | International Relations & Global Studies | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance

Keywords: Climate Change | Community Engagement | Energy & Society | Energy Justice | Energy Policy | Energy Transition | Environmental Justice | Environmental Policy | Geopolitics | International Development | International Trade & Energy Markets | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Policy Analysis | Renewable Energy | Resource & Sustainability Policy

Heather Lammers, PhD, QP

Heather Lammers, PhD, QP

Mining Engineering

Assistant Teaching Professor

hlammers@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Environment

Research Focus Areas: Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Earth & Planetary Processes | Engineering Solutions for a Safer Planet | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Environment Climate & Society | Environmental & Climate Data Science | Global Climate System | Managing Earth's Water Resources

Keywords: Climate Variability | Climate-Resilient Water Management | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Earth System Modeling & Prediction | Environmental Policy | Geotechnical Engineering | Integrated Water Resource Management | Mine Waste / Tailings to Resources | Mineral Resource Assessment | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Risk Assessment & Management | Rock & Soil Mechanics | Space Resources Development | Sustainable Resource Management

Patrick Leach

Patrick Leach

Economics & Business

Professor of Practice

peleach@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Engineering Global Sustainability | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Ethics & Values | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance

Keywords: Circular Economy | Climate Resilience | Corporate Social Responsibility | Data Ethics | Decarbonization Strategies | Economic Modeling | Energy & Society | Energy Economics | Environmental Justice | Environmental Policy | Ethics in STEM | Policy Analysis | Public Trust in Science & Technology | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Social Impacts of Science & Technology | Sustainable Resource Management | Systems Thinking | Techno-Economic Analysis

Aaron Malone, PhD

Aaron Malone, PhD

Mining Engineering & Payne Institute for Public Policy

Research Assistant Professor

amalone@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy | Environment | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Energy in Global Context | Engineering Global Sustainability | International Relations & Global Studies | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance

Keywords: Community Development | Community-Based Research | Conflict & Resource Management | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Cross-Cultural Collaboration | Energy & Society | Energy Transition | Environmental Justice | Environmental Policy | International Development | Policy Analysis | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Social Accountability & Acceptance | Sociotechnical Integration | Sustainable Resource Management

John McCray, PhD

John McCray, PhD

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Professor

jmccray@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Environment

Research Focus Areas: Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Environment Climate & Society | Exploring the Subsurface through Modeling & Mapping | Managing Earth's Water Resources | Soil Health & Human Wellness

Keywords: 3D Geological Models | Bioremediation | Borehole Data Interpretation | Climate Change | Climate-Resilient Water Management | Contaminant Fate & Transport | Energy-Water Nexus | Environmental Policy | Geochemistry | Geospatial Data Analysis & Mapping | Groundwater Contamination | Hydrogeological Systems | Hydrology | Integrated Water Resource Management | Landscape Evolution | Modeling & Simulation | Natural Hazard Prediction & Mitigation | Nuclear Remediation | Per- & Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | Soil Remediation Technologies | Subsurface Fluid Dynamics | Subsurface Imaging & Mapping | Subsurface Inversion & Tomography | Sustainable Remediation Practices | Sustainable Resource Management | Water Quality Monitoring | Water Reuse & Recycling | Water Treatment Technologies | Watershed Management

Hugh Miller, PhD, QP

Hugh Miller, PhD, QP

Mining Engineering

Associate Professor

hbmiller@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Keywords: Autonomous / Robotic Mining Systems | Enhanced Mineral Extraction | Environmental Policy | In-Situ Recovery | Innovation in Engineering | Mineral Resource Assessment | Product & Business Development | Project-Based Learning | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Responsible Innovation | Socially Responsible Engineering | Sustainable Resource Management | Techno-Economic Analysis | Technology Transfer

Steven Smith, PhD

Steven Smith, PhD

Economics & Business

Associate Professor

ssmith1@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Environment | Foundations

Research Focus Areas: Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Managing Earth's Water Resources

Keywords: Energy-Water Nexus | Environmental Policy | Integrated Water Resource Management | Policy Analysis | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Sustainable Resource Management

John Spear, PhD

John Spear, PhD

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Professor

jspear@mines.edu

Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Environment | Frontiers | Fundamentals

Research Focus Areas: Carbon Management & Air Quality | Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Earth & Planetary Processes | Engineering at the Interface of Biology & Technology | Environmental & Climate Data Science | Exploring the Subsurface through Modeling & Mapping | Managing Earth's Water Resources | Robotics for the Modern World | Soil Health & Human Wellness | Space Exploration & Resource Development | Underground Infrastructure Development

Keywords: Biochemistry | Bioinformatics | Bioremediation | Carbon Capture & Storage | Climate Change | Climate Systems Interactions | Contaminant Fate & Transport | Energy Efficiency | Energy-Water Nexus | Environmental Microbiology | Environmental Monitoring | Environmental Policy | Environmental Toxicology | Genetics | Geochemistry | Glaciology | Groundwater Contamination | Materials for Extreme Environments | Methane Emission Reduction | Mine Water | Molecular Biology | Nuclear Remediation | Robot Architectural Design | Soil-Plant Interactions | Space Exploration | Subsurface Imaging & Mapping | Watershed Management