Support

We are grateful to the companies that have donated their equipment, operators and expertise to this mission.

	GEL Geophysics, LLC, with its innovative technology and staff of expert engineers and geophysicists, is on the forefront of the geophysics community. GEL Geophysics provides state-of-the-art, near surface and down-hole geophysical services to clients throughout the United States. GEL Geophysics has aided municipalities, universities, industrial clients, and federal facilities in mapping their subsurface conditions.
	MALÅ GeoScience have been developing and producing different geophysical instruments for over 70 years and is today the world-leading manufacturer of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for many different types of applications.
	Canada Goose is committed to producing the best extreme cold weather outerwear in the world. They have been manufacturing innovative, high quality outerwear in Canada for over 45 years. TCanada Goose is absolutely confident that anyone who has ever worn one of their products will tell you that it has never let them down. Ask Anyone Who Knows.
	Founded in 1936, Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for training, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing and golf. True to it's roots, Suunto is the world's biggest compass manufacturer. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide and distributes its products to nearly 60 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Amer Sports Corporation.

2006 Expedition Members (click on the name for more information)

Kate McKinley - Gel Geophysics, LLC
Jim Cook - Mala Geosciences USA, Inc.
Gordon Scott
Bill Thuma
Matthew Wolf - Mala Geosciences USA, Inc.
Scott Carney - General Engineering Geophyics, LLC
Lou Sapienza

 

 

 

 

Kate McKinley

Kate McKinley serves as Group Leader and Senior Geophysicist for GELGeophysics, LLC. In this role, Ms. McKinley designs, supervises, and executes a variety of near-surface geophysical projects for environmental, geological, and archaeological applications. Her focus has been using ground penetrating radar in various capacities while also having extensive experience using electromagnetic, resistivity, gravity, and seismic methods to delineate the subsurface. Ms. McKinley has a B.S. in Earth Science from Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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Jim Cook

Senior Account Manager
Mala Geosciences USA, Inc.

Education

MA/2001/Geography and Planning/ Appalachian State University
BS/1996/Geology/ Appalachian State University

Affiliations

Member of The American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc.
Member of Concrete Sawing and Drilling Association

Experience

Mr. Cook has three years of exploratory geology experience and an additional five years of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) experience throughout the USA and abroad. He held an Exploratory Geologist position with UNIMIN Corporation where he identified mine reserves for sites all over the USA. Obligations at UNIMIN included: managing drilling operations, core logging and sampling, geologic mapping, geochemistry, optical mineralogy, and surveying with GPS and transit systems.

Mr. Cook is currently the Senior Account Manager for Mala Geosciences USA, Inc., the world leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar systems. His current obligations include: shipping and handling, GPR training, sales and marketing, product testing, customer support and minor repairs.

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Gordon Scott

Gordon works winters as a professional ski patroller and avalanche consultant in Alaska. He specializes in avalanche safety and mitigation, mountain rescue, and first aid. He has been on the Greenland Icecap 5 summers during the successful recovery of a P-38 from deep in the Greenland icecap in the 80's and early 90's. In the summers he is a vessel owner and commercial fisherman.

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W. R. ’Bil’ Thuma

Geophysicist/Geophysical Engineer

B. Sc. Michigan Technological University

International Marketing Consultant specializing in corporate communications, market development and product/service promotion primarily for advanced technologies for natural resource exploration including airborne remote sensing, and environmental monitoring / remediation sectors.

Traveled in nearly 50 countries and developed sales in more than 80 with most effort centered on China, Russia, SEA, India, and Middle East, and most of Latin America, the US and Canada.

Talks at: Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, New England Aviation Museum, Canadian Aeronautical and Space Institute, Ontario Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Royal Canadian Military Institute, Beijing Uranium Geology Research Institute, International Geophysical Conference Xi’an (China), International Workshop on Airborne Electromagnetics (Tucson), Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (Toronto) and Canadian Hydrographic Association. Invited symposia speaker at Brown, Waterloo and Queen’s Universities. Organized and spoke at GPR Workshop Wuhan University (China) and Canadian Mining Industry Business Seminars (Archangelsk and Irkutsk, Russia). Numerous published articles.

Aircraft Search

Assists groups in locating lost aircraft. Partial list of active and completed expeditions include:

• Greenland. Three missions up on the icecap. Located ‘Glacier Girl’, the showcase P-38 Lightning recovered from the ice tomb 265’ below the surface and now restored and flying.
• LabradorB-17 Flying Fortress Dyke Lake (now recovered and undergoing restoration)
• Lake Ontario Avro Arrow Supersonic model search off Point Petrie
• Manitoba Fokker Standard Universal located in 2005, recovery scheduled July 2006
• Ontario Nomad #3521 with crew Ted Bates & Peter Campbell still on board. May 2006

Born in upstate New York, in a quiet industrial region known as the Triple Cities and for it’s now defunct shoe industry giant Endicott Johnson, the original home of IBM and its founder T. J. Watson and where Ed Link of Link Trainer fame made his home.

Canadian Resident in Toronto since 1968.

Military experience: 4 years US Army ROTC. Engineering Battalion Rank 1st Lieutenant

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Scott D. Carney

Scott D. Carney, P.E. is the Director of General Engineering Geophysics, LLC, a full service geophysical consulting firm. Mr. Carney’s 16-year career spans both traditional geophysics as well as Subsurface Utility Engineering. In particular, his extensive geophysics expertise includes managing projects ranging from gathering and evaluating data for Chevron’s offshore programs to locating extensive infrastructure for federal installations, large universities, and municipalities. Mr. Carney’s experience includes the use of cutting-edge technology such as Computer Assisted Radar Tomography (CART). CART is helping to revolutionize the mapping of underground infrastructure in the United States and abroad. Mr. Carney has a master’s degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla and is a Registered Professional Engineer.

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Matthew J. Wolf

President

Mala Geosciences USA, Inc.

Education

• MS/1999/Geology, Geophysics/University of New Hampshire
• BS/1985/Geology/University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Specialized Training

• Diver training for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southeastern Undersea Research Facility
• 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Training and Annual Updates
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists Short Course: Theory and Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar, SEG Dallas, 1997
• Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society Short Course: Near Surface Geophysical Methods, Boston, 1995
• Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certification

Affiliations

• Member Environmental Engineering Geophysical Society
• Member Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Member National Utility Contractors Association
• Member National Association of Ordnance Contractors

Experience

Mr. Wolf has over fifteen years of geophysical experience throughout the US and abroad. He held Project Manager and Lead Geophysicist positions for projects involving Subsurface Utility Engineering, nonhazardous/hazardous waste, geotechnical engineering, geologic/hydrogeologic characterization, and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Mr. Wolf led geophysical teams for UXO projects in California, New York, and Arkansas. He is also involved with research and development of three dimensional imaging technologies with applications to UXO. Geophysical methods employed during his career include ground penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetics (EM), magnetics, seismic, and DC resistivity.

Mr. Wolf is currently the President of Mala Geosciences USA, Inc., the US office for the world leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar systems Mala based in Sweden. In this capacity he is responsible for all company operations in North and South America.

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Lou Sapienza

The Senior Editor of the Newark Star Ledger compares Sapienza to a "Real-Life Indiana Jones"; on training expeditions in Spain and the first-ever east to west vehicle transverse of modern day Borneo, team leaders dubbed him "McGuyver" after the television hero who could practically and swiftly solve most any threatening emergency or procure hard-to-come-by material.

Lou is equally adept in the corporate board room with the CEO of Johnson & Johnson's Chairman, or on the industrial manufacturing floor with production machinery and blue collar assembly personnel. Sapienza's dossier documents a wealth of experience, including magazine features in Life, Air & Space, National Geographic, Outside, and Cigar Aficionado, as well as his contributions to the book, "The Lost Squadron," by David Hayes. Lou has studied with Ansel Adams' successor, John Sexton, the highly successful prolific and successful B&W large format landscape and fine art photographer as well as Ezra Stoller and Peter Arrons, the deans of modern architectural photography, editorial photographer David Burnett and National Geographic Magazine's master of the quiet moment, Sam Abell. Sapienza's formal study includes educational programs at The Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine; the International Center of Photography, New York University, The School of Visual Arts in New York City; and St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.

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