Geologist

MICHAEL ANDERSON

Coeur d' Alene, ID ***** • 970-***-**** • ***********@*****.***

DILIGENT GEOLOGIST

Veteran. Honorably discharged

Professional Staffing Positions

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Senior Geologist • Program Advisor • Sr. Scientific Researcher • Project Manager

Volcanology Research • Hazards Analysis • Underground Mine Geology • Rock Mechanics/Geotechnical Investigations and Innovations

Operations safety

Assessed Mineral Resources • Mentored Geologists • Delivered Instruction • Minimized Risks to Mining Personnel

Prior DoD, EPA, DOE, NRC responder with program and regulatory experience

Chemical analysis QA/QC

Experience with JEOL electron

microscopes and transition

electron microscopes.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Multiple Agencies 2017 - 2022

Wildland Fire-Fighter Summer Season

●Served as on-call wildland firefighter for various agencies, responding to numerous large and small fires across the United States and the world.

●Earned certification for the international response team.

EPHEMERIS, United States 2014 - 2015

Investigator

●Studied current volcanic, landslide, and earthquake hazard communications processes.

●Researched ways to combine various eruption associated effects into a single software package for scientific activity planning, and later for federal and state emergency response entities.

●Seismically induced landslide events, ash fall prediction, and evacuation parameters based on eruptive scale and type of volcanic system.

●Presented geological and mineral resource materials to executives.

●Investigation of the Gold King Mine Incident

●Studies for mine closures

Utilized near-surface seismic, resistivity, and ground penetrating radar systems, LIDAR, a Scintrex CG5 gravimeter, pXRF, TerraSpec infrared mineral analyzer, CL microscopes. Through recent collaborations, several light stable isotope instruments. Other instrumentation utilized includes a JEOL JSM-6500F SEM, a JEOL JSM2100F TEM, and an XRD.

Geophysicist/Drilling Engineer-Geothermal 2012-2015

Geothermal Resource Exploration Programs- Specialized drilling, borehole temperature gradient studies in older volcanic systems associated with rift volcanism related geothermal. Designed and developed drilling program and syllabus for drilling intdormant volcanic complex in the Marianas Islands. Funding Cuts.

Kazakh Parties, Kazakhstan/ Siberia 2010 - 2012

Senior Exploration Geologist/Geotechnical

●Worked on mining safety issues in underground gold mine in deep tectonically stressed drop fault block ore body mining at +1 kilometers underground investigating rock properties and geomechanical conditions as a result of injuries abd fatalities from falling back as well as rock bursts, including review and interpretation of field maps, field logs, test data, and other field documentation. Resulted zero incidents since.

●Led multi-million-dollar exploration projects for gold, silver, moly, tungsten, zinc, and more.

●Studied in-situ rock mechanics problems associated with said regional tectonic regimes.

●Achieved a combined zero-defect safety margin based on my recommendations using balanced mining practices and proper bolting and screening at + 1-kilometer depth.

●Numerical analysis using programs such as Leapfrog, Surpac, Rockworks, DIPS, UNWEDGE, SWEDGE, UDEC, FLAC, Plaxis, Phase2, SEEP/W and SLOPE/W

●Determined the stratigraphic, structural, and magmatic evolution of terrains through field mapping and compilation of geotechnical data.

Ephemeris, Fort Collins, CO 2009 - 2016

Geothermal Researcher

●Identified ways to reduce drilling costs in geothermal exploration and development.

●Investigated coupled processes relating to active deformation and volcanic processes at plate boundaries in support of field and laboratory-based programs.

●Implemented quantitative methods in structural geology, paleo-seismology, tomography, tectonic geomorphology, core logging, geo-technical, analogue, and numerical modeling data.

●Produced data that increasingly indicated results consistent with hypothesis.

Sultan Minerals, British Columbia 2006 - 2007

Senior Project Exploration Geologist

●Produced 3-D geophysical surveys, drill core interpretation, and layouts, driller reports, assays to NI-43-101 for the Jersey Mine Project using Rockworks, Leapfrog, and other software.

●Completed a very successful underground drilling program of approx. 14,000 linear feet.

●Completed geo-technical activities, core rough logging, detail logging, and cost issues.

●Maintained environmental compliance and tailing-mine waste.

●Tracked and monitored project costs and equipment, including one drill.

●Supervised up to 8 personnel, coordinating workflows and resolution of program issues.

●Performed project costing including costing for coring, casing, moving drill tear down & setup, operations costs, standby, crew, equipment, trucks, all associated drill costs, transportation. meals, and accommodations, as well as consumables.

●Developed and modified workflows based on drill results and other factors.

Prior Experience

1999-2000: GIS Specialist Demonstrated technical support skills in projects requiring

increasing levels of technical Responsibility in global positioning system GPS and

geographical information system [GIS] for forest resource Management programs Use

of arc view 3.2, spatial analyst, and 3-D analyst, use of arc view 3.1-3.2 and spatial

analyst, GPS-GIS system use for data control and data point accuracy in creating

models for determining crustal stress factors related to earthquakes on a regional and

global scale

1996-1999: Research Scientist in Physics and Geophysics,

Addressed various aspects of nuclear weapons and high explosive phenomenology with

specific applications to strategic and tactical weapons system effects and test ban treaty

verification.

Assisted in defining properties of explosion point media, and conducted analysis and

interpretation of solid-earth, rock property, or shock wave data in tomography studies

and early LIDAR.

Ability to infer physical characteristics of shallow seismic sources from analysis of

ground motion data sets i.e., source region, regional, and tele seismic accelerations,

velocity or displacements). In depth use of geology, geophysics, structural geology, and

sedimentology, combined with hydrodynamics, hydro code application and

development, fluid mechanics, shock wave physics, and numerical methods-

Ability to lead a technical effort. Ability to realistically model propagation of earth shock

and seismic waves in geologic media. -Seismic instrumentation, deployment, and data

recording and analysis.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1991-1993. EPA Technical Assistance Team Responder

Geologist role. Phase 1 and Phase II project management, site and drilling oversight.

1990, Senior Safety Engineer, Trained to Occupational Safety and Health

Administration [OSHA] and Mine Safety Health Administration [MSHA] regulations zero

defect safety program.

1988-89, Undergraduate at a National Laboratory. Contributed to and edited the

geological and geophysical aspects of prototype test programs for the GTUF

experimental drift tunnel at the Yucca Mountain Repository Project, Nevada.

1987- Explosives Blaster. Drilling patterns, loading, tying in, and shooting benches and

rounds.

1986- 1987 Geo-technical, RZA; Geo technical in civil construction applications,

including Arctic permafrost geotechnical operations. Early experiments in permafrost

imaging [tomography with GPR]

1986- Explosive training and use safety certification to Mine Safety Health

Administration [MSHA].

1983-1985 Geology and support in an underground shaft uranium mine, at 2,520 ft

working level. New Mexico.

1982: Drilling engineer, shaft sinking [with two 136-foot Lee C Moore Jack up rigs face

to face with common crown and block 2.5-million-pound load capacity] 20' diameter

shaft x 1,000 feet. NM.

1978 Geological specialist intern; in a drift [15 x 15], with steel beam cribbing and

bracing] access underground coal mine in SW Colorado. Self-rescue training. Brass in

and out procedures, for geology geotechnical support for seam [real and inferred

reserves] and surveys for shift quantities, including roof and back safety checks for

limestone/dolomite slab spall.

EDUCATION

Private University,Graduate School of Ecology and Technological Environment

PhD, Physics Graduated 1993. GPA 4.0

College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Ecological and Technological Environment

Bachelor of Science, Physics/Geology

Graduated June 1, 1991 GPA 3.85 Full Honors

University of New Mexico, Instructor Thin Section Preparation and analysis

Colorado School of Mines, Mineralogy, Geology Colloquia

TECHNOLOGIES, PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT, & LANGUAGES

Technologies: Leapfrog, Rockworks, Arc View, Vulcan, Aqua Chem, SURFER, Relational Databases, 3D Modeling, Environmental Quality Information System

Professional Involvement: Heavy Equipment Operator Instructor

Languages: English, Icelandic, Old Norse, Norwegian, Sami, Navajo, some Russian, some Arabic

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