Education

Education is central to building community in the initiative. Such education will consider Science and Society. Science relates to the technical matters of mineral exploration and resource definition, and Society relates to educating each other about the challenges & solutions to building a sustainable energy future based on minerals.

Science

We provide education through course & workshops based on two text-books covering areas of decision making, data science and artificial intelligence for mineral exploration and resource definition, available for free on YouTube

• Scheidt, C., Li, L. and Caers, J.., 2018. Quantifying uncertainty in subsurface systems (Vol. 236). John Wiley & Sons.
• Wang, L., Yin, Z. and Caers J., 2023. Data Science for the Geosciences, Cambridge University Press

Our current teaching courses at Stanford

• Data sciences for Geoscience (both undergraduate and postgraduate levels)
• Uncertainty quantification for subsurface systems (postgraduate course)  

Society

We plan to build a community of teachers from all walks of life to teach about all aspects of the mineral resources for energy transition, beyond exploration science including aspects of law, environmental justice, policy and international security.

We plan to introduce a new course at Stanford in 2023-2024 on “Critical Minerals and Energy Justice”