Sara Post

Profile Sara Post
Professional Title
Senior Staff Scientist/Engineer
Sara Post, PE, is a Research Engineer with an environmental and geological engineering background. Her research activities have included by-product reuse in pothole repair materials and mineland reclamation, mineral particulate matter characterization (especially in lake sediments), lake sediment chemistry, and geologic resource mapping. Other research interests include geologic hazards, groundwater, stormwater management, and environmental remediation.

Education

  • BS, Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2010

Featured Research Projects

Developing a durable road repair patch utilizing taconite tailings, the waste rock left over from the iron ore mines on Minnesota's Iron Range.

NRRI News Articles

Three people in safety vests stand along a roadside behind a car observing equipment on road.

NRRI tests taconite byproduct as a safe and readily available high friction road aggregate.

A woman and man stand behind a desk looking at a large map.

NRRI plays key role in collecting critical minerals data for USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative.

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After graduating from the Colorado School of Mines, Sara Post brings environmental consulting expertise to varied projects at NRRI