Technologies, especially batteries, require metals like cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel. One way can we do that is to electrify our light vehicle fleet around the world. We’re fighting an uphill battle of trying to limit the impacts of climate change by bringing on renewable energy sources. I tell young people that are getting into geology, ‘if you want to save the world, become and exploration geologist. One of my greatest successes thus far was that I was on a team that discovered the largest undeveloped underground gold deposit in Nevada.ĭo you have any career advice for members of our Camp community? Most of 2022, I was out working in the field in Canada but I’m based in Salt Lake City, Utah now. My job is to use geology to predict where metal deposits of whatever commodity of interest we’re looking for may exist and then to drill for them to see if they’re there.

Almost the entire periodic table of elements is used to make a cell phone and so many things we use daily and we have to mine those elements that we use every day in the modern world. I immediately liked it because it was so tangible and fun to be outside.Ĭan you tell us about your current work and your career aspirations? These were things you read about in a text book and then you go out and see it in the flesh. Sewanee is a great place to study geology because you’re up on this big isolated plateau and you can literally walk outside of the classroom and see amazing outcrops of sedimentary rocks to learn things about depositional environments or structural geology. Stuart became interested in Sewanee because of Grant and then I followed my brother there.

My brother, Stuart was close with Grant Thomas who was a counselor at Sea Gull for a long time and he really looked up to him. I went to Sewanee University of the South and that was through a Sea Gull connection. What drew you into geology as a career and how did you get started on your professional path? Geologist, KoBold Metals (since June 2021) Counselor – Aquatics (2 summers), Assistant Head Camp 4, Lake ChiefĬurrent Profession and Title/Years in role:

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