EDUCATION

Ph.D. Colorado School of Mines                                   Major: Geophysics

Golden, CO                                       Minor: Geotechnical Engineering

Dissertation: The effects of wideband complex electromagnetic properties of soils on geophysical sensor performance

 

M.S.    Colorado School of Mines                                   Major: Geophysical Engineering

Golden, CO                       

Thesis: Numerical modeling of pore pressure in a porous rock placed in a shock tube

 

B.S.     West Virginia Wesleyan College                        Major: Engineering Physics

Buckhannon, WV                                 Minor: Math & Economics

                                                                                   

Professional Memberships

ASCE-American Society of Civil Engineers                                                                  2006 – present

AGU-American Geophysical Union                                                                               2006 – present

AAPG-American Association of Petroleum Geologists                                                    1998 – 2003

EEGS-Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Society                                         2001 – present

IEEE– Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers                                                 2006 – present

ISEE-International Society of Explosives Engineers                                                         1998 – 2003

SEG-Society of Exploration Geophysicists                                                                    1997 – present

SPWLA-Society of Professional Well Log Analysts                                                         2001 – 2003

 

Additional Training

OSHA HAZWOPER 40-Hour Training (Refresher done yearly)                                                 2001

OSHA 10-Hour General Safety Training

ISEE Blaster’s Training- Level 1                                                                                                   1999

 

LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS

ASBOG Fundamentals of Geology – Passed                                                                                   2006

ASBOG Practice of Geology – Passed                                                                                              2007

Mississippi Registered Professional Geologist No. 0762                                                             2008

Fundamentals of Engineering Exam – Passed                                                                                 2001

Puerto Rico Professional Geologist                                                                                                  2024

Equipment Competencies

3D-RADAR Geoscope

Agilent 4100 ExoScan Series FTIR

AGI SuperSting R8

Bartington MS2/MS3, Grad-03

Campbell Scientific data loggers and weather stations

Copper Mountain Planar R54 Vector Reflectometer

Event38 E384 Fixed Wing UAS

FLIR T640, EX320, SC640

Fluke 43B, 179, 199C, 289, 568, 574, 1625

Foerster MINEX 2FD 4.500

Fritsch Pulverisette P5 Planetary Mill

GapEOD UltraTEM III

GeoScanners AKULA 9000

Geometrics G-856, G-858, G-881, OhmMapper, Geode, StrataView, StrataGEM

Geonics EM31, EM34, EM38-MK2, EM61-MK2, EM63, ProTEM47

Geophex GEM-2, GEM-3, GEM-5

Geosensors UTEMIS-Mk2

GSSI SIR-3000, SIR-4000, Profiler

Impulse Radar, PinPointR

Impulse Radar, CrossOver

Juniper Systems Allegro, Allegro 2, Archer, Archer 2, Mesa, Mesa 2

Keysight 4395A, 4396B, E5071C, E4980A, N9912A, N9917A, 6653A, 33220A, 33250A, DSO7104A, E8362C

Landvisor Landmapper ERM-02

Minelab F3

Mount Sopris Matrix Well Logging Systems

Netzsch STA 449 F1 Jupiter Thermal Properties System

Panalytical Axios Cement X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) System, XPERT Pro MPD XRD System

Riegl LiDAR VZ-450, VZ-2000

Scintrex SARIS, CG-5, CG-6

Sensors & Software Noggin, PE100, PE1000, PE Pro GPR

Solarton Analytical 1260A, 1287A, 12962A

Trimble GeoXH 6000, 7x, R8, R2, R10, 4700, 5700, Ag132, DSM-232, SX-10, SPS-851

Turbo Ace Matrix-E Pro quadcopter

Vista Clara Corona, HMR Lab Low-field system

ZH Instruments SM-30, SM-100

 

Software Competencies

3D-RADAR Examiner

AGI EarthImager 1D, 2D, & 3D

AGISoft PhotoScan Pro

ALT WellCAD

Apple Final Cut Pro

ArchaeoFusion

Azeotech DAQFactory

Blue Marble Geographics Global Mapper

ClueTrust Cartographica

COMSOL Multiphysics

ESRI ArcGIS, ArcPad

ERDAS IMAGINE

ENVI, IDL

FLIR ExamineIR Pro (ResearchIR)

Geometrics MagMap 2000, MagPick, MagLog, Seismodule Controller Software (SCS)

Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory GPR-Slice, GPR-Sim

Geoscanners GPRSoft Pro

Geosoft Oasis Montaj

Geotomo RES1D, RES2DMOD, RES2DINV, RES3DMOD, RES3DINV

Golden Software Surfer, Grapher, Voxler, MapViewer, Didger

GPRMax

GSSI RADAN

Interpex IX1D

Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) SurfSeis and WinSeis

Keysight 85070E, 85071E, N1500A, Command Expert, Connection Expert

LaTeX

Materials Data, Inc. (MDI) JADE

Mathworks MATLAB

Microsoft Office

National Instruments LabView

PetrosEikon QCTool, EMIGMA

Precise Simulation FEATool

QGIS

RocScience Phase2, Slide, Examine3D, Settle3D

RockWare LogPlot, RockWorks

ThermoAnalytics  MuSES Infrared Signature Prediction Software

Sandmeier Software ReflexW

Sensors & Software EKKO_View_Deluxe, EKKO_Project

Starpal HGIS

Trimble GPS Pathfinder Office, TerraSync, Positions, Business Center, Access

UBC-GIF EM1DFM, EH3D, EH3DTD, UXOLab

WaveMetrics Igor Pro

 

EXTERNAL PROJECTS

Necrosearch International                                                                                            2007 – present

Assist law enforcement agencies from local police to federal agencies with the detection and discrimination of clandestine graves. Travel several times per year to sites with potential clandestine burials to perform geophysical surveys to detect and discriminate clandestine burials.

 

Refereed Journal Publications

North, R.E., Li, Y., and McKenna, J.R. (2019 submitted) “Improved Predictions of Ground Penetrating Radar Velocity and Attenuation From in-Situ Probe Measurements for Non-Expert Users”, Journal of Applied Geophysics

Van Dam, R. L., Hendrickx, J. M. H., Cassidy, N. J., North, R. E., Dogan, M., and Borchers, B., (2013) “Effects of magnetite on high-frequency ground-penetrating radar”, Geophysics, 78(5), H1-H11

Van Dam, R. L., Harrison, J. B. J., Hirschfeld, D. A., Meglich, T. M., Li, Y., and North, R. E. (2008). “Mineralogy and magnetic properties of basaltic substrate soils: Kaho’olawe and big island, Hawaii.” Soil Science Society of America Journal, 72(1), 244-257.

 

Technical Reports

Parkman, K.B., Dunbar, J.B, Perren, L.J., North, R.E., and Tillotson, A.L., (2018), “Geology of the Negev Tunnel Test Site, Near Kerem Shalom, Israel,” ERDC TR-18-16

Bjella, K.L., Astley, B.N. and North, R.E., (2010), “Geophysics for Military Construction Projects’, ERDC TR-10-9

Curtis, J. O., Cortes, J., Fields, M. P., Leavell, D. A., Weiss, C. A., North, R. E., Smith, E. W., and Castellane, R. M. (2004). “Characterization of soils from the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate Mine Lane Facility, Fort Belvoir, VA “, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research & Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. ERDC-TR-04-6

Llopis, J. L., Smith, E. W., and North, R. E. (2007). “Geophysical surveys for assessing levee foundation conditions, Sacramento River Levees, Sacramento, CA”, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research & Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. ERDC-TR-07-21

 

Conference Papers & Presentations

Glaser, D., North, R., Parkman, K., Engle, C., Quinn, M., Williams, C., Stanton, S., (2018). “Geoelectric and Electromagnetic Induction Delineation of Seep Origin at a US Army Earthen Dam,” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

Clark, W.W., Burns, B., North, R.E., Lucker, S., Boutte, D., Anders, B., Hogg, J., (2018) Comparison of ground penetrating radar explosive hazard detection data and local soil electromagnetic properties, Military Sensing Symposium (MSS), Gaithersburg, MD

North, R.E., and Lucker, S.L., (2018) Attenuation of GPR Signals in Highly Magnetic soils at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Nashville, TN

North, R.E., Silverstein, J., Thompson, R.S. (2017). “Forensic Geophysical Surveys in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands”, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Denver, CO

North, R.E., Parkman, K.B., Stephens, I.J., and Robbins, B.A. (2017) “Demonstration of a Novel Cone Penetrometer Hole to Surface Electrical Resistivity Tomography Array at Eagle Lake, MS” Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Denver, CO

North, R.E., McKenna, J.R., and Chen, C.C. (2012). “In-Situ Measurement of Soil Complex Dielectric Permittivity from 10 MHz to 1 GHz in the Shallow Subsurface”, 2nd International Soil Moisture Sensing Technology Conference, Honolulu, HI

Putman, B., Li, Y., and North, R.E., (2012) “Imaging internal erosion using cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography”, SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV

Astley, B.N., Campbell, S., North, R., Smith, B., Minsley, B., (2011) “Geophysical permafrost characterization techniques and application to military lands in Alaska”, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research & Development Conference, Atlanta, GA

Folks, W.R., North, R.E., Kelley, J.R., Cunningham, A.L and McKenna, J.R., (2011) “Coaxial Line Measurement and Analysis of Electromagnetic Properties of Soils for Sensor Applications”, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, FL

Jeffcoat, K., North, R.E., McKenna, J.R., Li, Y., (2011), “Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) properties of unconsolidated and unsorted materials under low-field and medium-field conditions”, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Charleston, SC

North, R.E., Goggin, E.M. and Enriquez, K.D., (2011), “Real-Time Augmented GPS Navigation Using a Dead Reckoning Module”, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Charleston, SC

McKenna, J., Irons, T., Li, Y., North, R., (2011), “A compressive frequency domain modeling and inversion scheme for surface nuclear magnetic resonance”, International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Melbourne, Australia

Folks, W.R., North, R.E., Wakeley, L.D., Jackson, S.S., Kelley, J.R., Castellane, R.M., and McKenna, J.R., (2010), “Development of an integrated soils laboratory for modeling and detection applications”, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, FL

North, R.E., Folks, W.R. and McKenna, J.R., (2010), “Techniques for electromagnetic characterization of near-surface soils”, Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL

North, R.E., McKenna, J.R., and Horner, D.A., Folks, W. R., (2009), “Development of an integrated laboratory for geophysical measurements”, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Conference

North, R. E. (2008) “Statistical Analysis of Naturally Occurring Magnetic Anomalies at a UXO Test Site.” Workshop on Soil Magnetism, Cranfield, UK

North, R. E., McKenna, J.R., Kelley, J.R., Berry, T.E., and Horton, R. (2008) ” Multifrequency Soil Electromagnetic Property Characterization.” Workshop on Soil Magnetism, Cranfield, UK

North, R. E., and Simms, J. E. (2007) “Determination of soil magnetic susceptibility from electromagnetic induction measurements.” Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Denver, CO, 264-275.

North, R. E. (2007) “Analysis of naturally occurring false alarms at a UXO test site on Jefferson Proving Ground.” Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Denver, CO, 1015-1021.

North, R. E., Smith, E. W., and Schwartz, A. B. (2007) “Repeatability of common UXO detection and discrimination instruments.” Symposium on the application of geophysics to environmental and engineering problems, Denver, CO, 773-783.

North, R. E., and Schwartz, A. B. (2007) “Repeatability of common UXO detection and discrimination instruments.” 2007 Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, DC.

North, R. E., and Schwartz, A. B. (2006) “Repeatability of common UXO detection and discrimination instruments.” 2006 Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, DC

North, R. E. (2006) “Comparison of two new portable magnetic susceptibility measurement systems.” Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets XI, Orlando, FL

North, R. E., Smith, E. W., and Cavanough, G. L. (2005) “Comparison of laboratory-based multi-frequency systems for measuring magnetic susceptibility.” Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Atlanta, GA.

North, R. E., and Schwartz, A. B. (2005) “Repeatability of common UXO detection and discrimination instruments.” 2005 Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, DC.

Van Dam, R.L., Harrison, B.J., Hendrickx, J.M.H., Borchers, B., North, R.E., Simms, J.E., Jasper, C., Smith, C.W., and Li, Y., (2005) Variability of magnetic soil properties in Hawaii, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets X, Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium

Van Dam, R.L., Harrison, B.J., Hendrickx, J.M.H., Hirschfeld, D.A.  North, R.E., Simms, J.E., and Li, Y., (2005) Mineralogy of magnetic soils at a UXO remediation site in Kaho’olawe Hawaii, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP), Atlanta, GA

North, R. E., Smith, E. W., Llopis, J. L., and Butler, D. K. (2004) “Analysis of localized high magnetic susceptibility zones at Jefferson Proving Ground, Indiana.” Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL