Time

Session

Speaker / Lead

8:00 – 9:00 AM

Arrival, Coffee, and Light Refreshments

-

9:00 – 9:05 AM

Welcome

Taylor Randall

(U of Utah)

9:05 – 9:50 AM

Panel: Federal Agency Programs Panel & Q&A

5 min from Tom Wagner

5 Min from Collin Williams

5 min from David Hockey

30 min Panel on the status of Critical Mineral Work for the US Civil Agency’s

Thomas Wagner (NASA)

Collin Williams (USGS)

David Hockey

(EPA)

9:50 – 10:30 AM

Break and Networking

-

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Overview of GEMx & EMIT

Raymond Kokaly, Dana Chadwick

10:45 – 11:45 AM

Hands on workshop - data access points

M. Thornton, E. Bolch, R. Kokaly, D. Chadwick

11:45 – 1:15 PM

Networking Lunch

-

1:15 – 2:30 PM

Track 1: Understanding Mineral Mapping Workshop -

GEMx, EMIT, and Earthdata

Basics, QGIS, Python, USGS-MICA and ENVI

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Track 2: Resources and funding

opportunities specifically earmarked for collaborative critical minerals research.

Track 3: Interdisciplinary Data Integration: benefits of combining spectral data with other geoscience resources, such as airborne geophysics, geochemistry, and geological mapping.

2:30 - 2:45 PM

Participant Survey and Feedback

Workshop Leads

2:45 – 3:15 PM

Break and Networking

-

3:15 – 4:00 PM

Panel: Industry & Academic Engagement

5 Min NSF CASERM – Thomas

5 Min Critical Mineral Institute – Mike

Example of Spectral Data Use from EMIT

30 Min Panel on Academia and Industry

Thomas Moenecke

(CSM)

Michael Free

(UofU)

Chris Maddox

(Rio Tinto)

4:15 – 5:00 PM

Customer Discovery for Federal Partners & Wrap-up

Workshop Leads