UZRAM project personnel-short bios

DR. CLIFF D. TAYLOR
•Economic geologist, over 35 years with
the USGS, stationed in Denver,
Colorado
•Ph.D. in economic geology from the
Colorado School of Mines
•Extensive experience leading mineral
resource assessments in the U.S.,
Africa, Australia, and Europe. GMRAP
(2004-2010) global sed-Cu assessment
team leader and coordinator for the
African continent
•Leader of recent mineral deposit research
projects in Alaska, Idaho-Montana,
Mauritania, and Algeria
•Experience with a wide variety of mineral deposit types, with particular expertise
in volcanogenic massive sulfides, sediment-hosted Cu, MVT Pb-Zn-fluorite,
intrusion-related carbonate replacements, porphyry Mo-Cu, banded iron
formation, and peralkaline granite-hosted U-Th-Nb-Ta-REE
DR. CAROL A. FINN
•Geophysicist, over 35 years with the
USGS, stationed in Denver, Colorado
•Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of
Colorado
•Extensive experience leading projects to
interpret geophysical data for mineral
resource and volcano hazards studies
•Leader and member of mineral deposit
research projects in Montana,
Minnesota, South Africa, Greenland,
China, Mauritania
•Leader of projects to investigate volcano
hazards in Washington, Alaska,
Antarctica, Australia, Japan and
Yellowstone.
•Past President of the American
Geophysical Union.
Mauritania, 2014
MR. STEVEN M. SMITH
•Exploration/Environmental Geochemist, over
35 years with the USGS, stationed in Denver,
Colorado
•M.Sc. specializing in exploration geochemistry
from the Colorado School of Mines
•Over 30 years of experience in geochemical
exploration methodology, geochemical
applications for mineral resource
assessments, and geochemical data
management
•Mineral resource assessments of US National
Forest lands, BLM Wilderness areas, Native
American Reservations, Sage grouse habitat
of the western US, Alaska, Mexico, and
Mauritania
•Chief of the USGS National Geochemical
Database project
DR. FEDERICO SOLANO
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Research Geologist for the USGS in
Reston, VA for the last 10 years
Ph.D. in Earth Systems and
GeoInformation Sciences from George
Mason University
• Recent/Current Projects:
• Integration of Remote Sensing Alteration Mapping
and Regional Geochemistry in the SW U.S.
o zbekistan Rare Minerals Assessment
o Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative
o NASA VIPER mission
o NASA RESOURCE mission
o Duluth PGE assessment
o Greater Antilles Archipelago Assessment