Daniel Engfer Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Lead Consultant, April 2024 – Present- Senior Consultant, June 2022 – April 2024Project manager, survey manager and offshore client representative providing top-quality leadership in support of geophysical and geotechnical site investigations and the planning and construction of foundations, substations, and cable routes in offshore New England and the Mid-Atlantic. • Managed BBC (big bubble curtain) operations during foundation installations for Vineyard Wind 1, both onshore as a project manager and offshore as a client representative • Engaged in daily strategy calls with installation and BBC vessel contractors to optimize SIMOPS and achieve client objectives • Ensured that foundation installations, site surveys and the related contracts met required regulatory and licensing criteria (BOEM, BSEE, NMFS, etc.) • Tasked with client relationship development and proposal writing • Prepared tenders, contracts, and scopes of work for geophysical and geotechnical surveys • Supported developers with survey procurement, including survey contractor assessment/selection • Coordinated geophysical and geotechnical site investigation survey activities and data collection for Vineyard Mid-Atlantic and Vineyard Northeast• Contributed to the development of budget and risk registers • Managed the preparation of survey-related deliverables within the technical departments, including final data and geotechnical-interpretive reportsRelevant Projects• Cajun Wind, Offshore Louisiana, U.S.• Vineyard Mid-Atlantic, Offshore New York, U.S.• Vineyard Northeast, Offshore Massachusetts, U.S.• Vineyard Wind 1, Offshore Massachusetts, U.S.

Key geophysicist collaborating with shipboard scientific crew and client representatives in offshore New York and Massachusetts on wind farming survey campaigns. Primary responsibilities included: • Performed timely quality assurance and quality control checks throughout the data acquisition process• Reviewed and enforcing technical requirements of project plans• Evaluated all data to ensure project objectives have been completed.• Compiled and delivering final deliverables to client• Wrote comprehensive project operations reports• Trained survey personnel• Processed seismic, side scan, and magnetic data using RadEx Pro, SonarWiz and Oasis Montaj respectively.• Analyzed side scan and magnetic anomaly data to identify geohazards.• Acquired side scan, magnetic, and seismic data using EdgeTech Discover, Geometrics MagLog and Innomar SESWIN respectively.• Observed all health, safety, and environmental regulations while on board geophysical survey vessels.Relevant Projects• Equinor Empire Wind, Offshore New York, U.S.• SouthCoast Wind, Offshore Massachusetts, U.S.• Vineyard Wind 1, Offshore Massachusetts, U.S.

Houston, Texas Area

Offshore Wind Development: Lead geoscientist working with client representatives and shipboard scientific crew in offshore Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey on offshore wind survey campaigns. • Analyzed site conditions, especially shallow geology to 100 m below seabed• QA/QC’d collected data during operations in cooperation with Global Mapper, Kingdom and ArcGIS • Gained extensive experience with seismic surveying for shallow geological characterizations • Participated in weekly progress meetings with the client representative and Fugro staff • Prepared workflow guides for handover to other shipboard geoscientists • Reviewed all data and disclosed final deliverables to clientHydrocarbon Exploration: Geoscientist working with shipboard scientific crew on offshore deployments in Brazil and Malaysia to detect hydrocarbon seeps. • Coordinated with client representative, survey department and ship operations to accurately complete line plans and collect multibeam (bathymetry, backscatter, water bottom) data and seismic data • Processed survey data using ArcGIS (routines and scripts) and the QPS software suite (Fledermaus, Qimera) to create interpretation deliverables for client• Interpreted geological features and hydrocarbon potential from processed survey data (bathymetry, backscatter, water column, sub-bottom, and CPT and XBT sounding logs) • Used Kingdom for the subsurface geological interpretation of sub-bottom data to detect potential hydrocarbon traps, fault (migration) conduits, core targets, etc. • Proficient in the use of ArcGIS for presentations, final client reports, and interpretation purposesRelevant Projects• Ørsted Ocean Wind, Offshore New Jersey, U.S.• Ørsted Revolution Wind, Offshore Rhode Island, U.S.• Ørsted Skipjack Wind, Offshore Delaware, U.S.• Ørsted Sunrise Wind, Offshore Rhode Island, U.S.• Petronas Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia (Island of Borneo)• TGS Brazilian Megasurvey, Campos Basin, Brazil

Houston, Texas

Provided general research technical support for the Geophysics Department. Also, responsible for investigating of the evolution of the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise South Atlantic seamount chains. • Used bathymetry and gravity data (derived from satellite altimetry data from the Cryosat 1 and Jason climatology missions) to map tectonic seafloor features in the South Atlantic with a level of precision previously not achieved.• Combined this tectonic map with gravity and magnetic isochron (crustal age) data to create a series of high-resolution tectonic-magnetic gravity maps in 0.5-million-year increments.• Integrated these maps into a movie that provided further insight into the evolution of the Rio Grande Rise (offshore Brazil/Uruguay) and Walvis Ridge (offshore Namibia) seamount chains, including detecting new seafloor anomalies and a previously unknown microplate.• Published the results of this research in multiple papers (see Publication section)

Houston

Geophysicist tasked with seismic data processing, preparing client presentations, creating analysis reports, and loading all data sets used by the office. Specific details follow:• Performed spectral (data) analyses and filtered false-event reflections from Polarcus seismic marine data using DUG Insight to better resolve signals from oil and gas prospects.• Modeled and removed diffraction effects and other noise from seismic data using Flatirons and DUG Insight to increase signal to noise ratios.• Wrote Bash scripts (on a LINUX platform) to reformat, resample, rebin, and unit-convert big (1 to 10 TB) structured and unstructured marine and land seismic data sets.• Prepared client presentations with analysis reports and insights on various projects for the North American Geosciences ManagerRelevant Projects• Polarcus, Gulf of Mexico

Houston, Texas

Processed and interpreted various geophysical data sets to detect anomalies and trends, and presented the results and recommendations to the principal researcher.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Master Of Science - Ms, Geophysics

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics