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About Candidate
Geophysicist, Water and GIS Specialist with extensive experience in natural resources exploration, and more recently surface and groundwater management and monitoring. Experienced with data management and analysis, including numerical modelling and geospatial analysis. Actively seeking opportunities to combine any (ideally all) of my specialties in earth, water and spatial science to sustainable management of water resources and/or climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Education
Compressed 3-year undergraduate programme covered physics, mathematics and geology foundations before focussing on diverse geophysical concepts in year 3. Fourth year Honours program included broad base of geophysical theory and geology as well as Remote Sensing and GIS and a small research project related to improving signal quality in induced polarisation surveys.
Online certificate program provided a broad exposure to the principles and applications of GIS, developing a strong foundation in GIS and Remote Sensing theory and techniques and GIS software skills, particularly with ArcMap.
Thesis research focussed on the impact of deforestation on water quality in an Eastern Ontario watershed through statistical and numerical modelling analysis. The research applied the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to historical and potential deforestation contexts in an extensively farmed watershed, including consideration of the use of best management practices. Coursework covered river hydraulics and sediment transport, hydrogeology and geochemistry, wastewater treatment, and evaluation of geotechnical hazards and risks. Thesis available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25193
Work & Experience
Working primarily in the Sustainable Groundwater business unit, I provided analysis and worked with hydrogeologists on interpretation of geophysical surveys for groundwater projects in Somalia and Angola. In a broader capacity, provided technical advice on survey and workflow approaches, and equipment acquisition for groundwater projects elsewhere in East Africa as well as techniques for site evaluation and monitoring for aquifer recharge pilot projects in The Netherlands.
As a member of the Hydrotechnical Support Unit, I worked with a specialist team of water engineers, spatial scientists and earth/water scientists on the analysis and monitoring of Canada's vast freshwater environment as well as contributing hydrological expertise for Environmental Impact Assessments requested by the Impact Assessment Agency. During my time at NHS, our team led the publication of an updated edition, including new analyses and new data, of the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Index for Water Quantity. At ECCC, I continued to develop skills with ArcGIS, QGIS and Python as well as R for statistical and geographic analyses.
Primarily worked on GIS analysis of land use change around the edges of towns and cities as part of a multi-year project to develop a Canadian scheme for Environmental and Ecosystem Accounting. This role allowed me to properly apply and expand the skills I acquired through my University of Toronto course with ESRI (ArcMap/ArcGIS) products, as well as adding QGIS and starting to use Python for GIS analysis tasks.
In almost 10 years with Fugro Airborne (later CGG), I worked on the acquisition of airborne electromagnetic surveys in Australia, India, Algeria, Uganda, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the USA, and collaborated on the processing and interpretation of these and many more EM and magnetometric surveys primarily in Australia, North America and West Africa. Developed skills with Geosoft Oasis montaj, Python and supported in-house software development through testing, and worked in diverse locations with highly skilled and specialised professionals.
