Mark E. Ander Email & Phone Number

Santa Fe, Nm, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Exploration Instruments (EXI), with offices in Austin TX and Harrisburg PA, is the largest and best-known geophysical equipment rental company in North America. EXI rents a wide variety of instruments, including: gravimeters, magnetometers, electromagnetic depth sounders, ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity, radiometric, seismic, environmental, hydrological, marine sub-bottom profilers, vibration and noise mapping, utility mapping, GPS, LIDAR, surveying instruments used in land, marine, airborne, and borehole applications, and test instruments for non destructive testing. Our customers include many of the largest civil and environment engineering firms, geophysicists, hydrologists, archaeologists, and others involved in geotechnical investigations. Some examples of applications include groundwater mapping, environmental clean-up, UXO detection, non-destructive testing, concrete imaging, bridge inspection, soils analysis, and oil, gas and mineral exploration. I started this company in my garage in Santa Fe, NM. Visit our EXI LinkedIn page by clicking on our logo and visit our web site at exiusa.com.

Ander Geophysical provides R&D and exploration geophysical consulting services to a select group of clients. Ander Geophysical also serves as a platform for many of Dr. Ander’s commercial geophysical research activities.

Ander Laboratory (Austin TX) is committed to the advancement of gravimetry through applications research and instrument development. Ander Lab developed Intellectual Property for the oil Industry. I was the recipient of a prestigious Shell Oil GameChanger research grant, which helped launch Ander Lab. Ander Lab developed, analyzed, and evaluated three-dimensional gravity modeling and inversion methodologies; Designed breakthrough concepts and applications of subsurface gravimetry applied to “smart wells” and “smart fields” in petroleum exploration and production, including gravity array technology - holds the original patent on gravity arrays, gravity measurement while drilling, and gravity geosteering; Created new exploration applications for borehole gravity; Performed feasibility studies of embedded gravity sensors applied to time-lapse petroleum production monitoring; Designed a revolutionary new MEMS gravity sensor that overcomes most of the drawbacks of conventional exploration gravity sensors (stability, size, weight, speed, cost, etc.). Worked closely with several major oil companies to develop smart production monitoring technologies, including Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Aramco, Arco, etc.

New York, New York, Us

I have been a Fellow of the Explorers Club since 1987.

Member, Gravity & Magnetics Committee of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Zebra Imaging revolutionized digital holography for the display of three-dimensional data by offering an auto-stereoscopic, full-parallax display for three-dimensional digital imagery. Zebra holograms are high-quality, full-color holographic images of unlimited size with no color distortions from any angle. The images appear to be floating in midair out from or above the panel by up to several feet. The holograms are scaleable to any size and to any resolution. I introduced Zebra Imaging to the Petroleum Industry.

Houston, Tx, Us

Chairman, “Noise in Gravity Data”, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Gravity & Magnetic Workshop, Society of Exploration Geophysics 72nd Annual International Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 6-11, 2002.

Founded in 1939 in Austin Texas, L&R holds a unique position, with tremendous brand name recognition, throughout the globe as the oldest and largest manufacturer and researcher of high precision gravimeters. Gravimeters are among the highest precision instruments in the world. I purchased L&R in 1998 with a business plan to leverage its existing core competency to launch new breakthrough technologies. I developed the Graviton EG-Meter - also known as the Aliod Meter, a state-of-the-art software driven gravimeter that sets today’s standard in gravimetry; Developed the Air/Sea Gravity System II, the first new commercial marine gravity meter in over 25 years; Developed the Deep Porosity-Density Logging tool; Increased the overall L&R gravity sensor resolution by nearly an order of magnitude; Increased production capacity 35% to 300%, depending on product line, by integrating increased efficiencies with new software and hardware technologies; Created a new Logging Service Division. In 1999, while testing a new gravity meter, I set the world’s record for the highest resolution measurement ever made by measuring the earth's gravity field to roughly 1 part in a billion. That record stood for 18 years. The funny thing is that I didn't even know that I had set it until after it was broken by Kip Thorne, when he established a huge interferometer to see gravitational waves for the first time and won a Nobel Prize for his work. I sold L&R in 2000.

BOO World (Austin TX) developed an internet asian market that owned two web sites, BestOfOrient.com and BestOfKarate.com. BestOfOrient.com was an oriental shopping mall – “Shop the Orient on the net”. BOO World owned every store on the mall including: BestofKarate.com - a Martial Arts Supply Store, a Chinese Art Carvings Gallery, a Cloisonne’ Art Gallery, a Fine China Pottery Gallery, a Japanese Art Gallery specializing in the great masters of Collectable Japanese Wood Block Art, a very popular Oriental Book Store, and a Japanese Kimono Store that was also very popular. BestOfKarate.com had one of the largest catalogs of martial arts supplies on the Internet at that time and was popular. I founded this company in 1998 and sold off each of the internet stores in 2000, just prior to the crash of the internet bubble.

I helped develop and implement a gold mining exploration scenario for three sites of owned mining rights covering 2,600 square miles in rugged terrain in the Andes Mountains of southern Columbia.

Crown Mines, Za

EDCON, was a world-wide geophysical exploration company specializing in gravity and magnetics. I purchased a significant ownership position in EDCON in 1993 and I sold my interest in 1996. I was involved in international business development and marketing; and directed gravity sensor research and development.The EDCON logo is the wrong logo. It was place here by LinkedIn and I can't remove it.

Reviewed engineering design of the Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer that was being built for the European Space Agency. This instrument was later used in commercial airborne gravity surveys by ArkEx.

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Project Manager &/or principal investigator on a wide range of geophysical projects both classified & unclassified. Led geophysical exploration studies in 21 separate Geothermal Resource Areas in the US, Caribbean, & Central America; Extensive geophysical study of the crust & upper mantle beneath the central Rio Grande rift, adjacent Great Plains, Basin & Range, & Colorado Plateau as well as several other major continental rift zones; Organized & led the International Non-Newtonian Gravity Project to search for a Fifth Force of nature in experiments carried out in the Greenland ice cap and in the Pacific Ocean. This high profile program, received substantial international attention in the scientific & popular press & carried the Explorers Club Flag on its Greenland expedition. It was the first time that gravity data was ever taken using GPS & the first time that ground penetrating radar data was ever processed using seismic data processing techniques (both methods are standard today); Developed & applied 2-D & 3-D Gravity Ideal Body Analysis codes, a very valuable tool that I used to search for new anti-gravity-like forces; Performed geophysical studies for the Environmental Restoration Program & for ground water studies; Developed planetary scale tests of gravitational red shift & either drift; Helped pioneer the use of SQUID magnetometers in geophysics; Developed the first full-tensor audio-magnetotelluric system; Developed a remote reference tenser magnetotelluric system; Built three 50 kW D.C. resistivity systems; Developed the most powerful ground penetration radar system ever built, for use on the moon; Developed an Ice Penetrating Thermal Geophysical Probe; Member of the LANL Working Group for the Continental Scientific Drilling Program; Member of the LANL Operational Unit Environmental Team; Held a DOE Q Clearance & worked on numerous other classified programs/projects; Supported 16 graduate students & one post-doc. See description of projects below.

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

SAGE, Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience, is an award winning geophysical field program that was initially sponsored by the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is one of the top geophysical field schools in America today. While a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I co-founded this program in 1982 with Shawn Biehler (UC, Riverside) and Robert Reiker (Los Alamos National Lab). I taught electromagnetic geophysics during the first three summers (1982, 83, & 84).

While at LANL, I started TOR Geophysical, Inc. in 1990. It was my first company and it launched my career as an entrepreneur. This was a part-time activity while I continued to work at Los Alamos National Lab. I directed a team of part-time scientists and engineers (all from LANL) to design a new density logging technology for petroleum E&P. I sold the company in 1993.

Richardson, Texas, Us

While at LANL, I was an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Lithospheric Studies. I was Involved in a wide range of studies related to gravity exploration.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

This was a joint appointment while I was at LANL. I conducted ocean experiments in the North Pacific to measure the Newtonian gravitational constant on a 200 m to 5 km scale length. These experiments, which consisted of six voyages and included two oceanographic vessels, a US Navy submarine, and the US Navy deep-sea submersible Sea Cliff. I helped pioneer several instrument advances in marine gravimetry and in high precision marine positioning.

While at LANL, I was an advisor for exploration and development of geothermal energy in Guatemala

While at LANL, I was an advisor for geothermal exploration to Honduras. Performed geophysical exploration of six geothermal sites, including Platanares and San Ignacio, and performed a regional gravity study of Honduras.

While at LANL, I was the associate editor for Potential Field Methods for the journal "Geophysics" at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

While at LANL, I was a Geophysical Advisor for geothermal energy to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. I performed geophysical exploration of the Qualibou Caldera for geothermal energy.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

While at LANL, I was an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico for a year. I was involved in regional tectonic and gravity research with the faculty and students.

Washington, Dc, Us

Co-Chairman, Geophysics Working Group, Valles Caldera Workshop, Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 5-7, 1982.

Washington, Dc, Us

Co-Chairman, Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Exploration Workshop, Department of Energy, Division of Geothermal Energy, held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 21-23, 1982.

College Station, Tx, Us

While at LANL, I was an adjunct professor at Texas A&M. I was a thesis advisor and guided magnetotelluric studies of the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona.

Washington, Dc, Us

Committeeman, Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Applications to Geophysics Workshop, Office of Naval Research and Department of Energy, held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 14-16, 1979.

Washington, Dc, Us

U.S. Department of Energy Observer, Workshop on Modeling of Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods, Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, held at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, May 17-19, 1978.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

I was a Visiting Research Student in the Engineering Geoscience Group. I analyzed magnetotelluric data from the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico and developed magnetotelluric data processing techniques and software. I was a member of the research team that first applied SQUID magnetometers to measurements of the earth’s magnetic field. While there, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), which was operated by the University of California at Berkeley, approached me with a job offer at LASL in New Mexico and I took it. Several years after arriving at LASL, they changed their name to LANL.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Research Assistant. Involved in Geophysical investigations for geothermal energy in New Mexico.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Graduate Teaching Assistant. Taught undergraduate physics and observational astronomy laboratory.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

I designed, constructed, and tested a multiple wire proportional chamber winding machine for use in elementary particle experiments at the Mason Physics Facility Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (which is now LANL); and taught undergraduate physics and astronomy laboratories.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

I sold life and health insurance for extra income while going to graduate school.

New York, Ny, Us

I sold annuities and life and health insurance to earn enough money to return to graduate school.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Butler Junior High School Teacher. Taught 7th and 8th grade science.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Taught general physics laboratory until I was drafted into the U.S. Army.

Designed, constructed, and tested a paramagnetic resonance spin spectrometer.

Summer Job: Repaired old vacuum tube styled military aircraft radios and LORAN sets that were war damaged in the Vietnam conflict.

Summer Job: I performed prototype transformer and filter testing.

Bloomington, Minnesota, Us

First Summer Job. Sold Ice Cream bars while walking up and down the Seaside Heights Beach all day long.

Ph.D., Geophysics & Geology

Exploration And Engineering Geophysics

M.S., Physics

B.A., Physics & Mathematics

High School

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Education record