Hi All (with apologies for cross-posting) We invite you to submit an abstract to the session T9. Battery and Energy Metals: Mineral Potential of the Southwestern USA during the 2022 GSA Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Joint Section Meeting. This meeting will be held on 15–17 March 2022 at the UNLV campus in central Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Further details of the meeting can be found here: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Section_Meetings/GSA/Sections/cd/2022mtg/home.aspx This session focuses on the battery and energy mineral and metal potential of the southwestern USA. The global minerals industry is currently seeing the effects of a rapid increase in demand for the raw materials required to implement emergent low- and zero-CO2 solutions for energy and transportation needs. We encourage submissions focused on the economic potential of the southwestern U.S. as a source for these key and often critical commodities, including research focused on primary mineral deposit genesis and exploration, the potential for battery and energy mineral and metal extraction from secondary sources such as mine and processing waste, and other associated topics. We also strongly encourage submissions from early-career scientists, including undergraduate and graduate students. The abstract submission deadline is 7th December 2021, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, and abstracts should be submitted at the following link: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022CD/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=52255 Hope to see you in Las Vegas! Session chairs Simon Jowitt and Brian McNulty -- Dr. Simon Jowitt Assistant Professor - Economic Geology Department of Geoscience University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 simon.jowitt@unlv.edu Office: +1-702-895-2447 --------------------------------------- geoscience.unlv.edu/people/department-faculty/simon-jowitt/ Twitter: twitter.com/The_Jow Editor, Applied Earth Science <https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yaes20> Associate Editor, Economic Geology <http://economicgeology.org> Associate Editor, Ore Geology Reviews <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ore-geology-reviews> VP - Student Affairs, Society of Economic Geologists <https://www.segweb.org/> VP, IAVCEI Large Igneous Provinces Commission <http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org>