Talks

Canada’s Critical Minerals – Investing in a Sustainable Economy AND Climate

Veronica Di Cecco is a Collections Technician at ROM, where she is responsible for the analysis and identification of the Museum's inorganic natural history collections – rocks, minerals, gems and meteorites. In addition to collections care work and running the mineralogy laboratory, her research projects include studies in mineralogy and geochemistry of critical mineral ore deposits, meteorites, and sediments.  
In addition to holding an MASc and BSc from the University of Toronto in mineralogy and economic geology, she is a professional geoscientist with PGO, and has lectured at the University of Toronto, Scarborough on the geologic history of Canada.
 

Dr. Soren Brothers is the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change at ROM.. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Soren’s research examines the effects of climate change on lakes, and how changes in aquatic systems can influence their greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. More broadly, he is interested in understanding how feedback loops and the transdisciplinary study of lakes can help us better understand and predict global tipping points that may accelerate anthropogenic climate change.

Ryan MacDonald is a senior editor with the Report on Business at The Globe and Mail, where he has held editorial positions since 2007. He leads a team of award-winning journalists focused on resources and energy issues that are critical to the Canadian economy. In 2023, he launched Mission Critical, a series of stories that looked at the issues around whether Canada can become a critical minerals mining superpower.