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Adriana Guatame-García
@adrianaguatame.bsky.social
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Assist. Prof. in Critical Mineral Resources at the University of Calgary | Science & Policy | GeoLatinas | 🇨🇴🇳🇱🇨🇦 | she/her/ella
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This reminds me of Blake Lively's dress on a MET gala. Beautiful copper oxidation!
Blake Lively's dress at the MET 2022 Gala. Comparisson of the copper and oxidized copper looks between the dress and the statue. "Blake’s transformation gown was an ode to New York’s Statue of Liberty constructed during the Glided Era. The outside copper look represented the monument’s original colour which is now transformed into an oxidized green, mirroring the transformed look."
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The call for abstracts for @egu.eu 2026 is open.
Share your work on #CriticalRawMaterials #CriticalMinerals with us!
𝐄𝐑𝐄𝟒.𝟑 “𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
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Flyer with information about the session. Text: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS SESSION ERE4.3 Towards Responsible and Innovative Critical Raw Materials Supply: From Primary Extraction to Extractive Waste Valorization Conveners: Antonello Aquilano, Adriana Guatame-Garcia, Feven Desta, Giovanna Antonella Dino Topics: From rocks to resources: CRMs from primary and secondary deposits Turning waste into value: Revalorization of extractive waste Innovation in action:New technologies for exploration & reprocessing Smarter mining: Al, automation & multiscale modeling Clean and responsible: Environmental and geotechnical solutions Policy & people: Legal, social, and economic dimensions of CRMs extraction Submit at https://www.egu26.eu/home.html Deadline: 15 jan 2026, 13:00 CET
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Mineral security shift
How focusing on human security, not just national security, shapes mineral policies.
Mineral security shift comparing several aspects between National security vs. Human security Information segregated row by row Aspect: Terms National security: Critical minerals or critical raw materials Human security: Mineral security or mineral poverty Aspect: Definition National security: Essential to economy and at risk of supply disruption Human security: Sufficient and affordable access by all people to the minerals necessary for human development Aspect: Subject National security: Industrialized importing states Human security: All people — universal Aspect: Perspective National security: State-centred Human security: Human-centred Aspect: Objective National security: National economic development, defence, energy, digital technology Human security: Human development and human needs (sustenance, shelter, energy, mobility, communication) Aspect: Focus National security: Manufacturing Human security: Mineral-enabled utilities and mineral-based products Aspect: Policy themes National security: Geopolitics: on-shoring and friend-shoring, value addition, supply diversification Human security: Poverty reduction, universal access, affordability
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Hey folks in Calgary! #YYC
Do you want to learn some cool facts about #Mars?
My friend and colleague Ben Tutolo from @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social will give a #TapTalk (aimed at a broad audience) this Thursday at Tool Shed Brewing. You can't miss it!

www.taptalks.ca#upcoming-eve...
Poster promoting an event. At the half top, there is a photo of a man posing in front of a large image of Mars. His arms are crossed, and he is smiling. In the top right corner, there is the Tap Talks logo. On the bottom half of the At the half bottom, the information about the event. The text reads: Topic on tap: Want to live on Mars? What Martian Rocks tell us about life in space. Dr. Benjamin Tutolo Tool Shed Brewing Co., Calgary, AB September 11, 2025, 8:00 PM
September 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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😱
Mineral cup current results showing a tie between kosmochlor and azurite with 478 votes each
September 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Move to Calgary they said…
It’s the sunniest city in North America they said…
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Just completed 2000Km on my e-bike, mostly commuting! 🚴‍♂️💪

2000Km in which I was not using unnecessary space on the roads or burning gas. I have ridden trough sun, rain and snow, from -30 to +30C.

Whish there were more (safe) bikelanes, though #yycbike
Screen on the handlebar of an e-bike showing total distance 2000Km, speed 00.0Km/h. The biker is on a bike lane, waiting to cross a road next to a traffic light.
July 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I was born and raised in Bogotá 🇨🇴, home now is Calgary 🇨🇦

I show these two graphs to my students to illustrate how global warming affects some regions more than others. Sadly, those most badly affected are the ones emitting less CO2.

#ShowYourStripes

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Blue to white stripes showing the temperature change in Bogotá since 1891 Blue to white stripes showing the temperature change in Calgary since 1850
June 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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When you are at a SciComm workshop, and one of the participants happens to be already an excellent communicator.
Thanks @watershedlab.bsky.social for explaining to us - and the rest of the community - the causes of the terrible landslide yesterday in Banff
A man in front of a small audience, pointing at a photo of a landslide on a screen
June 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Testify! It was smokey out there today #yyc
Skyline of Calgary with a brown haze from wildfire smoke
June 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Finished this puzzle by Rocky Mountain Creators. Not only is a photo of beautiful Moraine Lake, but did you notice the very Canadian shapes of the puzzle pieces? I’m obsessed!
May 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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One problem with #DeepSeaMining is that it distracts the conversation and efforts from improved land-based extraction and recycling—there are more resources than we think!

DSM risks & uncertainties are too high. We should not even be thinking about touching the seabed.

www.un.org/scientific-a...
Potential deep sea mining diagram. Different layers represent the depth of the ocean. On the surface, a ship with a pipe extending to the bottom ends in a tool to grab minerals from the seabed. Source: https://www.un.org/scientific-advisory-board/en/deep-sea-mining
May 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Happening this afternoon at #EGU25
Come to see great contributions on exploration and processing of #CriticalRawMaterials

📍 Room -2.43
🕣 16.15-18.00

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Orals Wed, 30 Apr | Room -2.43 Assessing the Global Availability of Platinum Group Metal Resources Yongguang Zhu •CRM potential of EU sedimentary basins: Insights on Estonian phosphorites and black shales Sophie Graul •Clay Hosted Rare Earth Element Deposits in Australia: A case study from Western Australia Nathan Reid •Redox-Sensitive (V-U-Mo) Element Enrichments in Lower Miocene Coals from Alatepe area of Mugla Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkiye) Naside Merve •Environmental and economic perspectives on Fe-oxyhydroxide and atacamite at seafloor massive sulphide deposits Christian Bishop Multi-physics Inversion by Gradual Deformation of Non-stationary Gaussian Processes Juan Pablo Daza •Future Mining Scenarios: A Forward-Looking Exploration of the Mining Industry through 2050 Christopher Keane •Critical metal extraction from laterite ores using reductive dissolution and Fe(II) catalysed recrystallisation Maximilian Mann •Balancing between environmental pollution and unutilized resource potential: mine wastes of North Macedonia Tamara Đorđević •Innovative Training in Critical Raw Materials: The IMMERSE Project's Role in Advancing Education for the Clean Energy Transition Evangelos Machairas
April 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Loved this clip from the psychology majors working on coping with stress in earthquake-prone regions (btw, our lecture time was at midday)
April 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Yesterday we had the final presentations of our Intro to Earth Sciences course for non-majors.
We had topics from the influence of geology on literature & languages to policy for climate change and hazard prevention, and even a mock panel on nuclear energy.
I think I learned as much as they did! ⚒️🍎
Students making a presentation on a a stage. The slide on the screen reads: Interview question 3: Hoe does geological setting influence the way authors construct environmental themes in ecocritical literature? Students making a presentation on a a stage. The students are wearing smart clothes and props simulating an international discussion panel. Students making a presentation on a a stage. The slide on the screen reads: The impacts of earthquakes on archaeological sites.
April 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Heading to #EGU2025?
I'm convening the ERE4.2/GMPV6 session "Sourcing critical raw materials: Methods, challenges, and opportunities"
We have amazing talks and posters on exploration, processing, & mine waste management.
Hope to see you there! 🧪⚒️

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EGU General Assembly 2025 Session details ERE4.2 Sourcing Critical Raw Materials: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities EDI, co-organized by GMPV6 Convener: Adriana Guatame-Garcia Co-convener: Feven Desta, Sara Kasmaee, and Hernan Flores Orals Wed, 30 Apr, 16:15-18:00 Room -2.43 Posters on site Thu, 01 May, 10:45-12:30 Hall X4 Posters virtual Thu, 01 May, 14:00-15:45 vPoster
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Exactly one year ago, I came to Calgary for the first time; it was for a job interview. I was so awfully nervous that I went downtown for a stroll to calm down a bit and took this photo.
Spoiler alert: I got the job. I live now in Calgary, and I’m very happy!
Two buildings on the foreground with the Calgary tower on the background
April 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Joining the Eclipse-versary! Last year, I was lucky to be in the path of totality for the solar eclipse in Kingston, ON. This is one of the most wonderful things I have ever witnessed 🥲 (yes, I cried!)
April 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Scientists who are migrants in the US & from minoritized groups cancelling their participation in @egu.eu because they are afraid if they leave the country, they might not be able to go back (screenshot of a @geolatinas.bsky.social chat group; translation in the alt text)
Español: chicas, al final no iré a EGU. Está todo muy aterrador acá y me recomendaron no viajar fuera del país. Espero ir en otra oportunidad. Mi advisor va a presentar mi trabajo en una charla el viernes en la sesión de tectonic geomorphology, si alguien está interesadx en eso. Un abrazote English: girls, in the end, I won’t go to EGU. Everything here is terrifying, and I was advised not to travel outside the country. I hope I can go in another opportunity. In case anyone is interested, my advisor will present my work in a talk on Friday in the tectonic geomorphology session. Big hug
April 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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New profile photo! Now you can actually see my face 😅
I had the same profile photo since I opened my Twitter account... many years ago! It was time for a change
Headshot of a woman with a smile and a blue jacket. Snowy mountains in the background
April 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Can anyone remind me why the train crosses Calgary right in the middle of the city with barely any safe pedestrian/bike crossings? I’ve been waiting here longer than usual #yyc #yycbike
A train crossing on the background, traffic red light blinking. Handlebars of a bike on the foreground.The train rails cut the bike lane impeding crossing
March 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Initially, the definition of #CriticalMinerals included only metals needed for green technologies, but in practice it also includes metals for "defence applications".

Not everyone interested on getting critcal minerals cares about a green economy.

www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
Title: Supply risk fro critical raw materials in military applications. Applications: fighter aircraft, main battle tank, missile, submarine, corvette, artillery, ammunition, torpedo, assault riggle. Legend: red, very righ risk; orange, high risk; yellow, medium risk; green, low risk. Metals include: Aluminium Beryllium Cobalt Gallium Germanium Graphite Lithium Manganese Platinum Rare Earth Elements Titanium Tungsten
March 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Current mood 🙍

(add to that that I also had to submit a grant this week)
Comic strip with two panels: Left panel title: The student view A student holds his head, looking at a pile of papers and empty coffee cups in desperation. The thought balloon reads "ahh!" I have to take an exam tomorrow". Tight panel panel title: The professor view A professor holds her head, looking at a pile of papers and empty coffee cups in desperation. The thought balloon reads "ahh!" I have to give an exam tomorrow!". Credits to Jorge Cham (2018) and www.phdcomics.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#yycbike report. 12 Av from Sunalta heading downtown: some snow cover, nice and grippy. Bike lane moving way faster than the car lane.

-25C! My coldest ride so far
A woman wearing a sky helmet and goggles. In the background, there is a bike lane with a snow cover cut by some bike tire marks.
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM