Name: EMSL Community Science Campaign Meeting: Critical Minerals and Materials
Start: 2025-11-04T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-05T16:30:00-08:00
Location: EMSL is located on the campus of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Washington 99352

EMSL Community Science Campaign Meeting: Critical Minerals and Materials

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is holding the EMSL Community Science Campaign Meeting: Critical Minerals and Materials (Nov. 4-5).
Register to attend in-person or online: https://bit.ly/4oJxaU6
(Please note: The online portion is limited to the morning of Nov. 4)
Researchers who are experts in the fields of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and molecular microbiology focused on biomining, phytomining, metalloproteins, metal-binding metabolomics, and critical mineral-relevant multi-omics, are encouraged to attend.
The goals of the meeting are to:
Identify and prioritize knowledge gaps, research needs, and barriers, to understanding fundamental geochemical, microbial, and pore-scale transport processes that control solubilization, mobilization, and transformation of critical minerals and materials in sediments and unconventional source materials, including soils, mine tailings, mine-drainage materials, and bioreactors.
Generate focused science questions to shape EMSL’s community science campaigns.
This meeting supports the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program’s research priority to advance bioinspired approaches for critical mineral and material extraction and separation from low-grade ores and unconventional source materials.