Simon Jowitt, Director of CREG (NBMG)

Simon Jowitt is currently the tenured Director of the Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology and the Arthur Brant Chair of Exploration Geology with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG). NBMG serves as the state geological survey of Nevada and is a department within the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada Reno, Nevada. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Geology from the University of Edinburgh, an M.Sc. in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines, and a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, all in the UK. Simon also spent eight years at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, initially as a three-year postdoctoral research fellow working with Anglo American before moving to spend seven years as an Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor of Economic Geology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses on the use of geochemistry to unravel geological processes in a variety of settings with direct application to understanding not only mineralizing systems but also igneous petrology, mineral exploration, global tectonics and the links between magmatism and metallogeny. He has also undertaken extensive research on mineral economics, global metal resources and the security of supply of the critical elements, and the “economic” side of economic geology, as demonstrated by a number of recent publications on global base, precious, and critical metal and mineral resources and the impact of the energy transition and COVID-19 on the global minerals industry. Simon also studies the environmental impact of mining and the potential uses of mining and other wastes for metal production and CO2 sequestration. He has published more than 110 scientific papers and peer-reviewed book chapters since 2010, is currently the Vice-President for Student Affairs for the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and was awarded the SEG’s Waldemar Lindgren Award in 2014.

John Muntean

John Muntean is an Associate Professor with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG). He decided to become a geologist in high school with the goal of applying science to the discovery of ore deposits, and has tried throughout his career to straddle the boundary between exploration and research. He received his BS from Purdue University, his MS from the University of Michigan, and his PhD from Stanford University. Before joining UNR in 2005, John worked 12 years in the mining companies exploring for gold mainly in Nevada, including Santa Fe Pacific, Homestake and Placer Dome. At Placer Dome, he provided technical support for Placer’s worldwide near-mine and long-term generative exploration efforts. He has published extensively on epithermal, porphyry, and Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada and Latin America. His research is field based backed by appropriate laboratory analyses. It is aimed at understanding ore controls and ore-forming processes. The goal of his research is to assist industry in where to look to for ore-bearing hydrothermal systems, and once in the right location, how to vector into ore. At NBMG he has also been involved in mineral assessments, mapping projects, database compilations, and reporting on mineral exploration activities in Nevada. In addition at UNR, he has supervised graduate students, helps teach the undergraduate field camp, and teaches graduate courses in economic geology. He is an active member of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Society of Nevada.

Chris Henry

http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Staff/Henry.html | chenry@unr.edu

John Louie

http://www.unr.edu/geology/people/john-louie | louie@seismo.unr.edu

Paula Noble

http://www.unr.edu/geology/people/paula-noble | noblepj@unr.edu

Simon Poulson

Simon Poulson is a Research Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering at the University of Nevada Reno.  He started off in science with an interest in chemistry at high school, then got introduced to geology during his BSc studies at the University of Cambridge, and has been working on a combination of both (as geochemistry) ever since.  He received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University, with subsequent post-doctoral positions at Dartmouth College and the University of Wyoming, before joining UNR in 1998.  His interests are in the general fields of stable isotope geochemistry and low temperature geochemistry, but he's been around enough ore deposit research (at UNR, and also at Penn State where he worked with Prof. Hiroshi Ohmoto) for long enough that an interest in economic geology has rubbed off on him.  Specific economic geology interests include studying the geochemical behavior of sulfur in igneous systems, and the environmental geochemistry aspects of ore deposits and mining.

http://www.unr.edu/geology/people/simon-poulson | poulson@mines.unr.edu

Lisa Stillings

stilling@usgs.gov