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Organization   Investigator Name   Investigator Title   Organization Type   Area of Expertise   Topic   Background, Interest, and Capabilities   Contact Information   State     Loading… Loading…   Loading…   Katz Water Technologies Gary Katz CEO & Founder Small Business Resource Sustainability   Katz Water Technologies seeks to develop its microbial biosorption process to enable the recovery of Li and other critical material from wastewaters including oil and gas-produced waters, geological formation waters including geothermal brines, and mine tailings. We can combine this with our patented thermal distillation technology that can purify water and concentrated brine to over 300,000 TDS. We are currently collaborating with Texas Southern University a local HBCU and are getting encouraging results in the lab. We are open to creating a team or joining a team to apply for this grant. Website: www.katzwatertx.com Email: gary@katzwater.com Phone: 8327239528 Address: 11391 Meadowglen Lane, Suite K, Houston, TX, 77082, United States TX   Cornell University Maha Haji Assistant Professor Academic Resource Sustainability   My background includes the passive harvesting of critical minerals from seawater. Some preliminary sampling done by my group in collaboration with the Gulf Offshore Research Institute suggests that concentrations of minerals key to battery technology (such as lithium) may be 4x higher in the Gulf of Mexico than reported by literature. This would be a substantial resource for securing our battery materials supply chain. As such, I am interested in an effort to assess the resources of the Gulf of Mexico, both onshore and offshore. I am looking to join a larger team and provide support for the analysis of seawater samples in the Gulf. Website: https://sea.mae.cornell.edu Email: maha@cornell.edo Phone: 607-255-1738 Address: 555 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States NY   Duke University Heileen Hsu-Kim Professor Academic Resource Sustainability Coal combustion residuals My team published one of the early datasets of rare earth element (REE) contents in U.S. coal fly ashes (Taggart et al., 2016, ES&T). This work demonstrated that the REE contents and extractability from fly ash are strongly linked to the regional origins of the coal feedstock that produced the combustion ash. We are now using these findings to establish a historical 'resource reserve' dataset of combustion ashes produced by major U.S. coal fired power stations based on coal purchase records of the last 45 years. This dataset could be extended to evaluate the REE reserve potential at legacy coal ash disposal impoundments across the U.S. Website: https://hsukim.pratt.duke.edu/research/waste-to-resource Email: hsukim@duke.edu Phone: (919) 660-5109 Address: Box 90287, 118A Hudson Hall, Durham, NC, 27708, United States NC   Michigan Technological University Snehamoy Chatterjee Associate Professor of Academic Resource Sustainability Mineral exploration using remote sensing I have expertise in remote sensing and AI for mineral exploration. We are also doing some research on REE exploration from coal and coal byproducts using spatial statistics and machine learning. Website: https://www.mtu.edu/geo/department/faculty/chatterjee/ Email: schatte1@mtu.edu Phone: 9064872516 Address: 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, 49931, United States MI   University of Alaska, Fairbanks Geophysical Institute Jessica Larsen Professor, Volcanology and Petrology Academic University Training and Research Critical Minerals I have two areas of expertise relevant to this FOA: 1) Electron Microprobe, Spectroscopy (X-ray and FTIR/RAMAN), and other advanced analytical methods. 2) Experimental petrology expertise which can be applied to REE, lithium, and other critical element partitioning systematics. I am the chair of the steering committee for the UAF Geophysical Institute Advanced Instrumentation Lab (AIL) which oversees and maintains a JEOL 8530F Field Emission Electron Probe Microanalyzer; PanAlytical Axios X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer; FEI Quanta Scanning Electron microscope; and X'Pert MRD Materials Research X-ray Diffractometer: https://www.uaf.edu/ail/instrumentation.php This lab has served multiple research, state, federal, and industry clients in economic geology and critical minerals related geological materials research for decades. As Steering Committee Chair for AIL, I help facilitate analytical work in geological materials analysis for the lab and its management personnel. As the lead for the UAF GI Experimental Petrology Lab, I oversee and facilitate high pressure and temperature experimental geological materials research focused on volcanology (magma storage), and new interests in mineral-melt REE, Li, and other critical element partitioning and fluid inclusion research, as well as developments in carbon capture and storage rock-CO2 reaction studies. My current appointment is joint between the Department of Geosciences (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) and the Geophysical Institute, where I also serve as Associate Director on the Leadership team. I have a PhD in Geophysics (Mineral Physics) from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1996), and since have been a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CalTech and UAF (1996-1999), Research Faculty in the Volcanology Group at the UAF Geophysical Institute, and am currently a tenured full professor with a joint GI-CNSM appointment. While my research focus has largely been on active volcanoes in Alaska, I also have participated in research relevant to geothermal energy, and other areas of petrology and geochemistry. Website: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/research/volcanology Email: jflarsen@alaska.edu Phone: 907-474-7992 Address: 2156 Koyukuk Drive, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, United States AK   Electroflow Technologies Eric McShane CEO Small Business Resource Sustainability   As a PhD student at UC Berkeley, I studied degradation modes of lithium-ion batteries under fast charging conditions. I then completed my postdoc at Stanford University where I studied electrochemical ammonia synthesis, after which I co-founded Electroflow Technologies in late 2023. At Electroflow, we're building electrochemical hardware to convert low grade (<200 ppm Li) brines to battery grade lithium chemicals. We aim to implement our technology on naturally occurring brine resources and on unconventional resources, such as oil-produced waters. Please reach out to me at eric@eflowtech.com if you'd be interested in collaborating with us. Website: www.eflowtech.com Email: eric@eflowtech.com Phone: 1111111111 Address: Burlingame, Burlingame, CA, 94010, United States CA   Waste Analytics LLC Jonathan Blake Scott President Small Business Resource Sustainability Oil and Gas Drill Cuttings For over 25 years, I owned an oilfield service company that disposed and recycled drilling waste in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Wyoming. The drilling wastes we managed were freshwater drilling waste, saltwater drilling waste, and oil-based drilling waste. Management of this waste stream included sampling and testing for pre and post treatment environmental contaminants, pre and post treatment sampling and testing for geotechnical properties, state permitting for the waste's final disposition, and performing the chosen management method. I also own a data company that has collected and derived drilling waste generated onshore by all publicly traded oil and gas companies for wells drilled onshore from 2017-2022 broken down by quarter. This dataset includes the states in which the waste was generated, the volumes of the waste by type, and the disposal method used for each waste type generated. Finally, I have SOPs on how to collect this data for each operator in each state. Website: www.wasteanalyticsllc.com Email: jbscott@wasteanalyticsllc.com Phone: 903-663-8640 Address: P.O. Box 6215, Longview, TX, 75608, United States TX   Atalco Gramercy LLC Steven Wicks Head of Risk Large Business Other   Atlantic Alumina ("Atalco") is the last alumina refinery operating in the United States. It has the ability to produce Gallium from its liquor circuit and rare earth minerals from its tailings from over 65 years of operation. We would consider potential research projects from interested parties regarding quantification and extraction of these critical minerals. Website: https://www.atalco.com/ Email: steven.wicks@atalco.com Phone: 00442038793951 Address: 1111 East Airline Hwy, GRAMERCY, LA, 70052, United States LA   University of Alaska Lee Ann Munk Professor of Geochemistry Academic Resource Sustainability Lithium in brines and volcanic sedimentary deposits, REEs 25+ years experience in environmental and exploration geochemistry, global lithium expert and emerging critial minerals focus. I have extensive industry partnerships across the lithium space but also offer Alaskan connections and research expertise. Website: www.hygeolab.org Email: lamunk@alaska.edu Phone: 9073519601 Address: 3101 Science Cir, Anchorage, AK, 99508, United States AK   The University of Texas at Dallas Kristina L Butler Assistant Professor Academic University Training and Research lithium resources, sedimentary mineralogy and geochemistry, aqueous geochemistry I research sediment- and brine-hosted lithium deposits globally. My expertise is in sedimentary geology including sediment mineralogy and geochemistry with growing expertise in aqueous and isotope geochemistry. I have active projects on several lithium deposits including: closed-basin lithium brine at Clayton Valley (Nevada), Salar de Atacama (Chile) and Pastos Grandes (Argentina); lithium oil field brines in Alberta (Canada), and volcano sedimentary deposits of the Barstow Formation (California). My lab is currently focused on understanding lithium sequestration & release in clay minerals. We are set up to characterize the clay-sized fraction of sedimentary lithium resources by XRD, XRF, and SEM. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. I received my PhD in sedimentology/tectonics from the University of Texas at Austin (Jackson School of Geosciences) and my undergraduate degree at the University of Alaska Anchorage. My postdoctoral positions at Brown University and the University of Washington were supported by the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with a focus on sedimentary geochemistry and isotope methods. Website: https://profiles.utdallas.edu/kristina.butler Email: kristina.butler@utdallas.edu Phone: 972-883-2444 Address: 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX, 75080, United States TX   Brown University Daniel Ibarra Assistant Professor Academic University Training and Research Lithium Resources from Sedimentary Basins Biogeochemist working on low and high temperature lithium resources. Focus on clay and brine deposits. Research group has geochemical and isotopic capabilities, including Li, Sr and U isotopes, plus light stable isotopes. ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS facility for analyses available through my group as well as XRD and other clay mineral characterization methods (e.g., microprobe). Current research in multiple basins in Nevada and southern California funded by NSF and industry collaborations. Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/dibarra Email: daniel_ibarra@brown.edu Phone: 6507145097 Address: 324 Brook Street, Providence, RI, 02912, United States RI   Ohio University Jason Trembly Russ Professor Academic Resource Sustainability Carbon-based products Ohio University has an extensive background in the research and development of carbon-based products, using both coal and reclaimed coal from impoundment wastes. Our expertise covers a range of areas including the development of carbon composites for building products, additive manufacturing for tooling and building applications, and the production of graphite and graphene for ultra-conductors and energy storage devices. We also conduct techno-economic and lifecycle analyses for these manufacturing processes. Additionally, we engage in community benefits and workforce development programs related to carbon-based product manufacturing in the Appalachian region. Website: https://www.ohio.edu/engineering/ Email: trembly@ohio.edu Phone: 7405026805 Address: 263 Stocker Center, Athens, OH, 45701, United States OH Loading…