Steven Axen — in-situ leaching, design and implementation of hydrogeologic field programs. Mr. Axen’s areas of expertise include well and wellfield design, and design of in-situ mining processes. His primary experience over 31 years has involved product development and patenting of processes related to in-situ leaching, design of comprehensive field programs, and field supervision and troubleshooting of well installations related to in-situ leaching, water supply, and mine dewatering.
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Mark Board — mining engineering, rock mechanics. Dr. Board is a Principal Engineer with approximately 30 years of experience in the application of rock engineering to problems in mine design, tunneling and slope stability. He has particular expertise in the design of deep mine excavations, and in prevention and mitigation of high stress and seismic stability issues.
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Braden Hanna — environmental and mining geochemistry, geochemical characterization, geochemical modeling, environmental visualization. Mr. Hanna has 9 years of experience in environmental applications of geochemistry. His areas of expertise include geochemical characterization and modeling of pit lakes, waste rock, tailings and water management facilities, development of numerical models to evaluate oxidation, pit lake and waste rock chemistry, contaminant degradation and contaminant distribution, and 3-dimensional analysis and visualization of complex environmental systems for litigation, cost allocation, and regulatory purposes.
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Bryan Keith — spatial data analysis and visualization, database design and development, geologic modeling, software development. Mr. Keith has 15 years of experience in scientific analysis with GIS and database technologies. He has built geologic models for hydrogeologic investigations, developed geochemical models for pit lake and waste-rock chemistry predictions, and has developed tools to build numerical models and analyze their results.
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Houmao Liu — ground-water and contaminant hydrology, geochemistry, software development. Dr. Liu has 20 years of experience in mining and environmental hydrology, geochemistry and development implementation of numerical models. His area of expertise is in applying multidisciplinary knowledge of engineering, hydrology and geochemistry in solving various problems. Dr. Liu is also a Sun Micro Certified Java programmer with extensive experience in the development of software, Internet applications, and databases. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado.
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Eric Poeck — mining engineering, rock mechanics, slope stability. Mr. Poeck is a recent graduate of the Colorado School of Mines Master’s Program in Mining and Earth Systems Engineering. His research and thesis involved the evaluation of water jet nozzles for scaling in hard-rock underground mining operations, while his curriculum focused on rock mechanics and geotechnical analysis. Mr. Poeck is an Engineer in Training with experience in mechanical engineering related to the field of machine design and automation.
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Alexander Shchipansky — ground-water flow, transport and LNAPL modeling, mining and contaminant hydrogeology, dewatering, deep aquifer hydrogeology. Dr. Shchipansky has 24 years of experience in the areas of ground-water and contamination modeling, mine dewatering, and hydrogeologic research and application. His expertise includes analysis of hydrogeological conditions of various types of aquifers, estimating inflow to surface and underground mines and design of dewatering systems, and design of protective measures from contamination, including hydrocarbons.
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Robert Sterrett — ground-water flow, transport, and flow and transport in the vadose zone, analysis of LNAPL mobility, Office Director. Dr. Sterrett has over 25 years of experience in the areas of ground-water and contaminant transport analysis, and soil and ground-water remediation. His expertise includes analysis of the fate and transport of chemicals in the vadose zone and ground water, and the design and analysis of soil and ground-water remediation systems. Dr. Sterrett also has undertaken the analysis of mine and construction dewatering systems.
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Daniel Stone — mining hydrology, ground-water flow and transport modeling, geophysics, glaciology. Dr. Stone has 21 years of experience in hydrogeological, geophysical and glaciological consulting and research. His areas of expertise include mine water-control systems, conceptualization and water-budget analysis of hydrological systems, numerical modeling of ground-water flow and contaminant fate and transport, water resource studies for environmental impact analyses, geophysical surveys, and applied glaciology.
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Jeffrey Wright — resource development, mine dewatering, ground-water remediation. Mr. Wright has 29 years of experience in hydrogeologic investigations, water resource development and ground-water remediation. He has worked extensively on ground-water investigations involving mine closures and environmental compliance. Mr. Wright has designed and installed large dewatering wells, conducted and analyzed various types of aquifer tests, and conducted borehole geophysical logging programs.
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Jianwei Xiang — numerical modeling, software development. Dr. Xiang has a broad background in the hydrogeology field. He has extensive experience in numerical modeling of groundwater system and related code development. Dr. Xiang has worked on coal mine dewatering systems, power-plant water supply, and modeling groundwater/surface-water interactions.
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