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Karen Hudson-Edwards
Karen Hudson-Edwards is Professor in Sustainable Mining at the Camborne School of Mines and the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, UK. 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. Currently she supervises a research group of eight post-docs and PhD students working on a variety of projects, including legacy wastes in the coastal zone, 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.
