Ryan North, Phd, Pgp, Rpg, Gisp Email & Phone Number

Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States

This is my specialized consulting business where I do projects outside of the mainstream of my full time job. I do a lot of cemetery mapping, detection of clandestine burials, treasure hunting, instrument and software design and testing, and measurement of complex electromagnetic properties of materials.

Colorado

NecroSearch International is a volunteer multidisciplinary team dedicated to assisting law enforcement in the location of clandestine graves and the recovery of evidence (including human remains) from those graves.The NecroSearch mission is to assist law enforcement agencies by providing applied research, training, and on-site investigations. NecroSearch scientists and investigators work on a volunteer basis.Since 1987 we have assisted in over 300 cases in 39 states and 6 foreign countries.

Golden, Colorado, United States

I am assisting with senior design projects, available for committee work, and meeting with students to discuss career options in engineering and environmental industries.

Oxford, Mississippi

Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Vicksburg, Ms

As a geophysicist with ERDC I perform a wide range of near surface geophysical surveys in the field, including gravity, magnetics, electromagnetics, ground penetrating radar, surface nuclear magnetic resonance, and seismic reflection and refraction. These surveys support both civilian and military applications. I have performed field surveys over most of the continental US, and also Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. I have performed field surveys in several international locations to support military projects.Starting in 2008 I began development of the ERDC Near Surface Properties Laboratory. This facility can now measure most geophysical properties at a lab scale as a function of temerature, pressure, water content and can subsample geologic samples prior to measurement. As part of the NSPL development a custom scientific workflow and database was developed to manage all of the measurement capabilities and to ensure that the high quality data that we generate can be used by other scientist quickly and in format useful to them. The NSPL is now linked with out Materials Test Center and our quantitative mineralogy lab to allow measurement of a the entire spectrum of properties on the same sample. The potential of this facility is linking geology to engineering and geophysical properties in a predictive manner.

Golden, Co

I went to CSM to get an MS in geophysics thinking that I wanted to do seismic data processing. I spent the first few years as a teaching assistant for AutoCAD and FORTRAN programming. After several internships in this area I decided that this wasn't what I wanted to do. I then spent several years performing field and laboratory non-linear complex resistivity (NLCR) measurements on contaminated soil samples. This was much more interesting but didn't lead where I anticipated. I finally spent a year modeling the Biot slow wave propagation through rock cores confined in a shock tube. This was my MS thesis topic and much of the modeling was performed during my summer internship at Schlumberger-Doll Research under the supervision of Dr. David L. Johnson. My MS advisor at CSM was Max Peeters for whom I worked as a research assistant.While I was at CSM I was involved with the Graduate Student Association (GSA), first as a department representative, them as the treasurer and finally as the president. After my year as president of the GSA I attended the national meeting of the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS) and was elected ombudsman. In this role I was in charge of hiring and firing for our paid staff in the Washington, DC office.

Ridgefield, Connecticut

I spent the summer of 2001 modeling the propagation of the Biot slow wave through saturated rock cores. I used a FORTRAN 90 code written in Russia for these simulations. The goal was to see if there was any potential at detecting the Biot slow wave in actual field measurements as this would have led to the potential of a powerful new method of determining the permeability of rocks.

Lafayette, Louisiana Area

I spent a summer processing seismic data from the Gulf of Mexico to locate possible natural gas reservoirs. I had the opportunity to spend a week on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico while monitoring the well logging.

Lafayette, Louisiana

I spent the summer of 1997 performing quality control and quality assurance on marine seismic data. I spent part of the summer performing this work on an ocean bottom cable crew boat and the bullk of the summer on a streamer boat. I also learned how to rebuild and maintain all of the equipment used to perform the surveys.

Phd, Geophysics / Civil Engineering

I was on campus at CSM from August 2006 until August 2007 as part of the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Long Term.

Civil Engineering And Math

I was not in a degree seeking program at MSU. I just took some graduate level math and civil engineering courses for personal edification.

Land Surveying

I have taken several land surveying courses through the distance education program in the Civil Engineering Technology department at Old.

Ms, Geophysical Engineering

Activities and Societies: I was the President, Vice President and Department Representative for the Graduate Student Association. I.

Bs, Engineering Physics

Activities and Societies: honors program, basketball team, Bonner Scholar, Campus Activities Board, College Republicans, Intervarsity.