Montana Technological University Graduate School: Micro-Credentials

Mine Management: Chris specializes in mine scheduling, optimization, and pit limit definition, Geometallurgical uncertainty and risk modeling, Open pit/underground interaction and transition, Ore control and mine operations, Equipment selection, operation, and cost modeling, Simulation​.

Mining Engineering: Scott has over 30 years of work experience in surface mining gold, copper, iron ore, and coal while living in the USA, Australia, Indonesia and Argentina. Scott has held senior positions in mine engineering, production, and mine management with a strong commitment to improving safety practices. ​

Extractive Metallurgy & Mineral Processing: Jerry is a registered professional engineer with active licenses in Colorado and Montana. His 40+ years of professional experience includes industrial operations, applied process research and development, and corporate management. His technical expertise includes chemical and metallurgical thermodynamics, thermal processing, materials synthesis and processing, and hazardous materials treatment.​

Maureen specializes in the synthesis and processing of ultra-hard, high temperature ceramic materials. Throughout her 10 years of metallurgical and materials research experience, she has also worked on rare earth metal aqueous processing and extraction, and the carbothermal reduction of iron from copper smelting slag.

Exploration: Chris is an expert in aqueous geochemistry at high and low temperatures, economic geology, acid mine drainage, stable isotopes.

Hydrogeology: Glenn is an expert in groundwater and surface water interactions in mountain systems, environmental tracers for ground-surface water interactions, physical hydrologic field methods and groundwater flow modeling.

Ms. Beaucamp has a Bachelor's Degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences and a Geology Master's Degree focusing on metallogeny. She worked as an Exploration Geologist in the Timmins-Val d'Or greenstone belt and along the West coast of Ungava Bay, Nunavik. She also worked as a Production Geologist and Geotechnical Engineer in Northeast Nevada. After moving to Montana in 2015, she worked as an Adjunct Professor for the Environmental Sciences and Mathematics Departments of the University of Montana Western, as a geology of Yellowstone tour guide for Road Scholar, and as the Executive Director for the Beaverhead Trails Coalition in Dillon, Montana. Wanting to pursue teaching at the university level, she started her PhD in Montana Tech’s brand-new Earth Science and Engineering in Fall 2020 and is now all but dissertation. Her research focuses on historic mining districts in Montana.

Permitting, Restoration, Reclamation: Robin researches environmental remediation, site reuse, beneficial waste reuse and renewable energy generation on brownfield sites. She has over 30 years of industrial experience in mining, pulp and paper and oil and gas prior to her 9-year career in academia. In industry, she rose from project management, through head of decommissioning for oil and gas and mining operations, Director for natural resource damage for the Deepwater Horizon spill and Vice President for a mid-size oil and gas corporation. ​