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I am a freelance geophysicist working in the offshore sector. I have over 30 years of geophysical experience both offshore and onshore. Previously I worked for MG3 Survey UK for five years, and ran their technical geophysical operations in the office and offshore until August 2018.

I have led geochemical, geophysical, and geotechnical campaigns in The South Atlantic, South America, West & South Africa, Northern Europe, The Arctic, Morocco, and Canada.

I am an experienced Party chief and Senior geophysicist. My passion is data, how it is collected, managed and interpreted. Whilst there are many tools available to do this sometimes they are not specific enough; so custom tools are required. I have written custom data management tools using Python and Pascal so colleagues can rapidly understand and manage data quickly and easily. I also use Bash, and the Dos command line.

Visualisation provides a key to understanding the quality of acquired data and can be a vital tool for analysing data when problems occur. Very often these problems are not immediately apparent when using conventional techniques. Using visualisation techniques very large datasets may be assessed quickly and accurately and problem areas identified for more conventional analysis. In addition to development tools such as Python and Pascal, GIS is a powerful tool to allow rapid assessment of multiple datasets including seismic, bathymetry, sidescan sonar, and other acquired datasets. I have been using SAGA GIS since 2013 as this package has a huge number of processing tools and is fully scriptable using Python, DOS, or Bash commands so that multiple data sets can be analysed or processed in batch mode, dramatically increasing processing throughput

In my view good geophysical data should look beautiful. Beautiful data is easier to understand. If you can understand data you can interpret it better.