Terence Lai Email & Phone Number

Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

•Administers and monitors overall compliance with natural resource legislation (Indian Act), regulations (Indian Timber Regulations), policies (Operational Policy on the taking, disposition, and removal of non-metallic substances from reserves) and procedures.•Negotiates and drafts leases, permits, licences and other legal documentation.•Consults with, liaises and provides professional expertise to management, other directorates, industry, other government departments, provincial agencies, municipalities, First Nations, Tribal Councils and the general public on legislative and regulatory interpretation and requirements.•Conducts environmental screening of projects in accordance with the Impact Assessment Act (previously CEAA, 2012) and recommends screening decisions.•Pursues collection of timber dues (stumpage) and mineral royalties.•Provides capacity building and training services to First Nations.

Coquitlam, Bc

•Supervises 1 staff and occasionally a Co-op student•Develops objectives and strategies for the development of the regional gravel program•Maintains the aggregate information database for 300 gravel pits and quarries in the South Coast Region•Carries out needs analysis based on anticipated aggregate usage•Project managing the assessment, procurement and supply of aggregate for major projects•Manages the referral process for land acquisition and negotiates directly with other government agencies, first nations, regional and municipal groups, as well as private individuals or companies•Manages engineering consultants to produce geological, aggregate, archaeological, environmental investigations•Selects pit or quarry sources to make best use of gravel resources for construction/rehabilitation projects•Provides expert advice to clients on aggregate crushing/production contracts and quality control/assurance contracts, including preparation of contract language•Researches all available information on project areas, including existing topographic mapping, geological information, past studies, and historical land use•Conducts detailed field site inspections•Conducts subsurface investigations involving drilling or test pitting, detailed laboratory testing and determination of the quantity and quality of the gravel resource•Evaluation of aggregate suitability according to BC MoTI Standard SpecificationsOther related duties: •Working in remote areas•Working around heavy construction earth moving equipment•Operates field survey and GPS equipment•Preparation of letters, reports, maps and drawings •Ongoing training: geomorphology and geology, health and safety, working alone procedures, bear aware

Burnaby, Bc

•Responsible for aggregate resource data necessary for resource management, project planning, construction feasibility, environmental protection and land use applications•Aggregate exploration/prospecting•Aggregate testing: test pitting and drilling•Evaluation of aggregate suitability•Calculation of aggregate volumes •GPS surveying of stockpile and pit faces•Production of maps and plans in ArcGIS for gravel pit development and reclamation•Maintenance of a database of legal information, development history, exploration and inventory information for gravel pits and quarries•Collaboration with Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO) to streamline applications for gravel operations (e.g. Section 16 Map Reserve, Section 52 License to Cut)•Consultation with First Nations and other stakeholders related to aggregate operations

Vancouver, Canada Area

I reviewed weekly lessons, assisted with homework, and helped with exam preparation with students on a one-on-one basis.

Burnaby, Bc

•Researched GIS methods for statistically predicting landslide probability•Modelled landslides in both ESRI ArcGIS and IDRISI progams•Produced a series of maps from modelling results for thesis and journal publications•Presented research at various conferences (e.g. 2011 ICA Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modelling, Burnaby BC; Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers 2011 Annual Meeting, Burnaby BC)•Published peer-reviewed articles in "Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk" and "Earth Science Informatics"Thesis title: Modelling the spatial dynamics of landslides: integration of GIS-based cellullar automata and multicriteria evaluation methods https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd6818

Vancouver

•Analysed hydroclimatic changes in the last 30 years across Canada•Summarized results into a paper that contributed to the Ecosystem Status and Trends Report (ESTR)•Self-learned the programming language R to produce graphs and ArcGIS to produce maps•Performed significance tests and cluster analyses in R for detecting hydroclimatic trends•Produced a poster for the 2009 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference (Seattle, WA) based on a subset of hydrometric and climate stations in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin region using the same trend detection techniques in the Canada-wide study

Bedford Institute Of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Ns

•Developed an ESRI geodatabase for surficial and subsurface geological offshore features•Interpreted seabed features from georeferenced images, maps and side scan sonar images•Learned side scan sonar interpretation techniques to identify gas-related features•Digitized features such as pockmarks, till tongues, mega ripples, gas-charged sediments, buried channels and salt diapirs•Worked on a two-week research cruise for core drilling and side scan sonar surveying•Produced detailed track maps and geological core illustrations for technical cruise report

Msc, Geography (Gis)

Bsc, Physical Geography

Education record