Keynote talk by Dr. Adam Simon at the NSF-funded 3rd Annual National Workshop on 'Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals'. More information on speakers and the workshop series can be found at (criticalminerals.mst.edu)

Adam C. Simon is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He earned degrees in geology and geochemistry from the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. His scholarly work focuses on the global flow of energy and mineral resources with an emphasis on the geologic availability of energy critical metals. Adam has co-authored the textbooks Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, and Earth Materials: Components of a Diverse Planet and published extensively in the field of energy and mineral resources. Adam has done research and given invited lectures on all seven continents, including a TEDX talk in 2022.
He has earned numerous awards for under-graduate teaching including the University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize.