Coal exploration. Supervise drill crew, determine drilling depths, maintain safe work site; describe and interpret drill cuttings; describe and process core samples; interpret geophysical logs for gamma, density, and resistivity; maintain field notes and correlate logs for depth, thickness, and areal extent of lignite seams.

Minerals exploration; Supervise drilling crew; describe and interpret core samples for copper porphyry system; conduct field investigation and generate geologic map of study area; maintain field notes and generate reports; process and submit samples for assay analysis.

Coal exploration. Supervise drill crew, determine drilling depths, maintain safe work site; describe and interpret drill cuttings; describe and process core samples; interpret geophysical logs for gamma, density, and resistivity; maintain field notes and correlate logs for depth, thickness, and areal extent of lignite seams.

Collect and describe drill cuttings. Check samples for fluorescence. Package samples for later analysis. Set up and tore down data acquisition equipment at beginning and completion of well. Operated and maintained real-time computer-based data acquisition equipment. Kept pace of various drilling parameters such as penetration rate, oil and gas shows, location of bit in formation. Produced daily reports and liaised with company geologist.

Conducted laboratory analysis of water samples for Biochemical Oxygen Demand, ammonia, and cyanide. Maintained client data and produced reports.