Karen Hudson-Edwards, 2019 Distinguished Lecturer
Karen Hudson-Edwards is based in the Environment & Sustainability Institute and the Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter, where she is a Professor of Sustainable Mining. Her research focuses on understanding the character and geochemical mobility of mine wastes, and on designing management and remediation schemes to lessen their impacts on ecosystem and human health. Over the past 25 years she has worked all over the globe, studying the aftermath of tailings dam failures, the geochemistry, mineralogy and microbiology of different types of mine wastes and the effectiveness of remediation and management schemes. Her work has been supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, Science and Technology Facilities Research Council, Royal Society, EU and industry. She is an Editor of the AGU journal GeoHealth, and Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry section of the journal Minerals. She has contributed to sustainable mining public displays at the UK Science Museum and the Eden Project. Currently she supervises a research group of eight post-docs and PhD students working on a variety of projects, including bioleaching of Ni-Cu-Co ores, the characterisation of metal-organic pollutants for remediation of mining environments and the global implications of acid mine drainage.
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