Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
To briefly summarize, I’m an scientist with more than 20 years of experience working in space science, geoscience and astronomy. In 2017, I moved from Norway to Canada to explore new opportunities as a technical specialist while working on my PhD at Western University. My experiences abroad helped me develop not only strong technical skills, but also provided me with the opportunity to develop interpersonal skills and a keen business sense. Over the past 25 years I have also been lucky to have worked on quite a number of interesting projects in different disciplines. With an educational background in astrophysics I started out by playing a major role in a project to refurbish and re-purpose a cold-war era satellite tracking camera as a near-Earth object discovery telescope. After the project saw 'first light', I moved with my family to Denmark and then Norway where I worked for 12 years as a geoscientist in the oil and gas industry. Along the way, I've continued to work on another satellite tracking camera retrofit and have developed a small business designing and building custom titanium bicycles. I've tracked fireballs with seismic and infrasound data and have searched for meteorites around the world. The vast majority of the work that I do now, though, is working on Space Situational Awareness (SSA). It has been an exciting few years designing, building, and deploying LEO satellite tracking systems, and am confident that things in this space are just going to continue to get more exciting over the coming years!
My work at Western University is varied - from designing and building instrumentation for meteor physics and space surveillance to the construction of robotic observatories for rapid imaging of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). When I'm not out in the field at Elginfield Observatory, I'm often analyzing data from our many instruments or writing code in Python.
I'm currently working on a 2 month project to little used algorithm to search for asteroids in archived satellite data. The work that I'm doing relies heavily on Python and, so far, is yielding results beyond what even I had expected.
* • Exploration well planning support (geophysics) for the 3/7-10S (Myrhauk) well that was drilled in 2015 * Depth conversion and processing QC on the Mackerel prospect for the Bream development team * Exploration well planning support (geophysics and pressure prediction) for the 'Myrhauk' well to be drilled in early 2015 * Responsible for exploration work on 4 operated licenses and 2 non-operated licenses * Structural interpretation and lead & prospect evaluation on held licenses and for license applications * Quantitative interpretation using spectral, inversion, AVO and other attribute-based techniques * Pore pressure prediction using both offset well and seismic based approaches * Depth conversion on various licenses in the Norwegian sector * Volumetrics work on leads and prospects in current licenses and new business venture areas * Providing coaching on various geophysical topics to colleagues * Working closely with external contractors to conduct reprocessing, inversion, and data conditioning projects * Leading and participating in partner meetings for operated and non-operated licenses
As one of my passions has always been astronomy (especially observational), I continue to consult (in my spare time) and help out where and when I can. Being one of the few people in the world who have worked with the refurbishment of Baker-Nunn cameras (see www.bakernunn.org), I occasionally get the chance to consult on the mechanics and optics of these wonderful tools. And I always look forward to the next chance...
Again, because of my astronomical interests, I like to chase fireballs and any meteorites (in my spare time) that may have made it to the ground. I like to involve myself in all aspects of the chase but especially enjoy reducing seismic and infrasound data to help understand not only where meteorites may be found on the ground, but also, where in our solar system they came from.
* Subsurface team lead for an eastern Mediterranean project (geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, well planning) * Norwegian Sea Multi-Client dataset structural interpretation * Volumes calculation for client reserves audits * Interpretation and prospect evaluation in northern Norwegian Sea * Norwegian Sea Multi-Client pore-pressure study and workflow development (in Petrel) * Prospectivity analyses on a license level * Depth conversion QA work * Seismic-based pore-pressure predictions for numerous clients in the North and Barents Seas