Meeting

Would it surprise you to learn that Golder has nearly 20 practicing geophysicists worldwide? We had most of them confined in one room in Seattle for two days last month. Good place to keep them you might say but we beg to differ.

The meeting allowed the geophysicists to meet each other, sometimes for the first time, demonstrate different skills and tools to each other, review new developments and exchange ideas and information. Examples of technologies passed between offices include:

• Combined pipe location and GPS for locating pipeline crossings beneath rivers in western Canada.
  
• Mapping clay aquitards, plumes beneath dams, changes within landslides and structures in massive retaining walls using 2D and 3D electrical imaging. Exampes from the US and Hong Kong.
• The use of borehole cameras to map fracture distribution and lithology in boreholes in northern Canada.
• A review of the latest borehole logging tools used by Schlumberger for the UK deep repository investigation.
• Detecting punctures and splits in HDPE liners. Examples came from impoundments in the US, landfills in the UK and tailings dams in Turkey and the US.
• The use of VSP and seismic tomography to map geology in mines and underground laboratories with examples from the STRIPA project in Sweden.

The last afternoon of the meeting focussed on marketing objectives, client distribution and the use of web pages by new and old clients.

Geophysicists able to attend the 1998 meeting were:

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