Sessions of 2025 Summer Conference: Chris Earnest
Earnest, Chris
Program Coordinator: Education Outreach
Chris Earnest has served as the Educational Outreach Coordinator since September 2019 where he creates educational materials, demonstrations and activities to help stimulate interest in and understanding of mineral resources and the mining industry. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a BS in Geosciences and a minor in Spanish. As well as English, Chris speaks Japanese and Spanish. As a senior teacher of English as a foreign language in Japan, Chris has over a decade of experience of classroom teaching grades 1-6 as well as experience teaching secondary students and adults in both classroom and small-group settings. Chris also has experience instructing teenagers in basic geologic principles while volunteering for the Boy Scouts of America, Scout Association of Japan, and the Society of Earth Science Students. As a member of those organizations, he instructed teenagers in basic geologic principles such as: rock and mineral identification and classification, concepts of structural geology, the concept of superposition and the fundamentals of orienteering. Prior to teaching in Japan, Chris worked at the Arizona Radiogenic Helium Dating Lab Preparing and processing mineral samples for U-Th-He thermochronologic age dating and was responsible for preparing and maintaining lab standard samples, managing lab supplies, and collection and categorization of hazardous waste.
Sessions:
5062: Maximum Profit, Minimum Impact: Mine Design and Engineering
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Westin La Paloma
- Construction Science Technologies
- Engineering, Manufacturing
- Interdisciplinary
Presented by the University of Arizona School of Mining and Mineral Resources, this lesson focuses on the twin imperatives of a mining engineer: remove copper from the earth while spending less money, leaving the smallest impact on the environment. Teachers will review mathematical formulas and principles for describing area, volume, mass, and density, to apply these concepts in a competition to design a mine that maximizes profits for its investors while minimizing the impact on the environment. This lesson requires at least a 6th-grade proficiency in math but is adaptable to calculus. (ADE Sponsored)
