Overview

Montgomery Simus

Biography	Monty Simus’s interdisciplinary PhD research centres on one of the world’s primary sites of contemporary water cultures in profound conflict: Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska. His project explores the new, global dependence on energy transition minerals; how Indigenous and non-Indigenous imperatives intersect within debates on their potential development; and what Pebble Mine — one of the largest known undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum deposits in the world that sits aside Bristol Bay, the world’s largest salmon fishery — can teach the world about growing tensions between decarbonization and conservation.
Research Interests	Monty’s broader research interests comprise water ownership, First Nations, climate-adaptive finance, natural resources, and the blue-green trade-offs that must be evaluated to make informed policy and economic decisions. In the summer of 2024, he presented a paper examining clean energy’s ‘wicked problem’ at the British Academy’s “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge” event held at the University of Oxford, as well as, a paper on conservation, decarbonization, and green colonialism at the Roosevelt Institute of American Studies in the Netherlands.

Biography

Monty Simus’s interdisciplinary PhD research centres on one of the world’s primary sites of contemporary water cultures in profound conflict: Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska. His project explores the new, global dependence on energy transition minerals; how Indigenous and non-Indigenous imperatives intersect within debates on their potential development; and what Pebble Mine — one of the largest known undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum deposits in the world that sits aside Bristol Bay, the world’s largest salmon fishery — can teach the world about growing tensions between decarbonization and conservation.

Research Interests

Monty’s broader research interests comprise water ownership, First Nations, climate-adaptive finance, natural resources, and the blue-green trade-offs that must be evaluated to make informed policy and economic decisions. In the summer of 2024, he presented a paper examining clean energy’s ‘wicked problem’ at the British Academy’s “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge” event held at the University of Oxford, as well as, a paper on conservation, decarbonization, and green colonialism at the Roosevelt Institute of American Studies in the Netherlands.