Conference: Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals, Rolla, MO, August 7-8, 2024

会议：关键矿物的弹性供应，密苏里州罗拉，2024 年 8 月 7-8 日

• 批准号: 2418193
• 负责人: Marek Locmelis
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2418193&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Resilient; Supply; Critical; Minerals

The United States is import- reliant for most of the 50 materials that are currently classified as "critical minerals." Removing materials from the critical minerals list requires a multi-disciplinary approach that encompasses mineral exploration, material flow analysis, sustainability, mining methods, public policy, mineral economics, extractive metallurgy, and production processes. To provide a discussion platform for stakeholders from academia, the private sector, and government agencies that represent these disciplines, Missouri S&T will hold a hybrid in- person/virtual workshop on August 7-8, 2024, on the Missouri S&T campus in Rolla. Themed topical sessions will discuss the resilient supply of critical minerals from cross-disciplinary, convergent perspectives, including mineral exploration, mineral processing and recycling, policy making and supply chain economics, and critical minerals workforce development. Leaders in their respective fields will give keynote presentations that will discuss the current state of knowledge and highlight potential strategies to address the critical minerals research needs. The keynotes will be followed by oral presentations of participants to introduce additional concepts and/or perspectives. Every topical session will have a breakout session to facilitate discussions towards charting a course for multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral research and practical collaborations. It is anticipated that the workshop will help develop and nurture professional relationships among participants from academia, government agencies, and the private sector – thus facilitating multi-disciplinary collaborations in critical minerals research.Increasing the resiliency of critical mineral supply chains is important to the economy and national safety of the United States. Existing research has yet to comprehensively theorize, examine, and evaluate the cross-disciplinary nature of approaches available to enhance supply chain resilience. Furthermore, economic, environmental, and social components associated with critical minerals are usually discussed separately with little convergence between technology and policy fields. Similarly, the need to build a diverse and strong critical minerals workforce, particularly in rural areas, is often neglected, but will be addressed through a topical session at the workshop. It is expected that the workshop will provide a unique platform for discussions among engineers, geoscientists, economists, political scientists, and politicians/staffers representing academia, the private sector, and government agencies. The workshop will help nurture a budding national community with a wide range of expertise in critical mineral supply resilience, spanning academic, industry, and government actors. Travel grants, particularly for students and early-career researchers, will help build a community that spans generations and ensure the meeting’s lasting impact. A specific focus of the breakout sessions will be formation of task forces that will meet regularly after the workshop to draft documents that, for example, can be used to help educational boards modernize K12 curricula and inform lawmakers for policy making. The workshop findings will be summarized and disseminated in a workshop report.This award is co-funded by CBET/ENG's Environmental Sustainability program and EAR/GEO's Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry program and Petrology and Geochemistry programThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国对目前被列为“关键矿物”的 50 种材料中的大多数都依赖进口。将材料从关键矿物清单中删除需要采取多学科方法，包括矿物勘探、物质流分析、可持续性、采矿方法、为了为来自学术界、私营部门和代表这些学科的政府机构的利益相关者提供一个讨论平台，密苏里州科技部将举办一次面对面/虚拟混合研讨会。 2024 年 8 月 7 日至 8 日，在密苏里州罗拉科技园区举行的主题专题会议将从跨学科、融合的角度讨论关键矿物的弹性供应，包括矿物勘探、矿物加工和回收、政策制定和供应链经济学。以及关键矿产劳动力发展等领域的领导者将发表主题演讲，讨论当前的知识状况并强调解决关键矿产研究需求的潜在策略。介绍更多的概念和/或观点。每个专题会议都会有一个分组会议，以促进讨论制定多学科和跨部门研究和实际合作的课程，预计研讨会将有助于发展和培养参与者之间的专业关系。来自学术界、政府机构和私营部门的合作，从而促进关键矿产研究中的多学科合作。提高关键矿产供应链的弹性对于美国的经济和国家安全至关重要。此外，与关键矿产相关的经济、环境和社会组成部分通常是单独讨论的，而技术和政策领域之间需要建立很少的融合。多样化和强大的关键矿产劳动力，特别是在农村地区，经常被忽视，但研讨会将通过专题会议来解决这一问题，预计研讨会将为工程师、地球科学家、经济学家、政治家之间的讨论提供一个独特的平台。科学家，该研讨会将帮助培养一个在关键矿产供应弹性方面拥有广泛专业知识的新兴国家社区，涵盖学术界、工业界和政府机构，特别是针对旅行补助金。学生和早期职业研究人员将帮助建立一个跨越几代人的社区，并确保会议的持久影响，分组会议的一个具体重点将是组建工作组，该工作组将在研讨会后定期开会起草文件，例如：可用于帮助教育委员会使 K12 课程现代化并为立法者制定政策提供信息。研讨会的结果将在研讨会报告中进行总结和传播。该奖项由 CBET/ENG 的环境可持续发展计划和 EAR/GEO 的地球生物学和低温地球化学计划以及岩石学和地球化学共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。