Douglas K. Bingham, Ph. D., P. Geoph.
| Address: | 9652 - 86 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6C 1J9 |
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| Telephone: | 780-432-0730 | |
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| Home page: | http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dkbing |
Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Employed on contract (through my company, Elegant Computing Productions) to repair and maintain deformation monitoring equipment installed on Turtle Mountain in southern Alberta.
Also to review quarterly reports for the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project
Alberta Environment, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Temporary part time employment on several separate occasions to carry out enhancement work on two of the MS Access databases I had developed for the Department. This required working with various users of the databases to determine their needs. Also modifying Visual Basic software that I had created for the Department.
RSRead Consulting, Inc., Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
Assist in carrying out the work of work project WP07a of the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project. This consists of engineering the 'Educational System' and quality assurance and documentation of the monitoring systems in place.
(this work done on contract for Emergency Management Alberta, Alberta Municipal Affairs).
Danaus Corp., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Design and install an automatic weather station including crack monitoring gauges near the summit of Turtle Mountain in southern Alberta. The station includes telemetry and link to Internet. Assist in the development and installation of a series of mountain top GPS monitoring stations and prisms for precision remote laser rangeing monitoring; assist in the development of the control centre at the Frank Slide Interpretative Centre base station for the project; create a customized data plotting program using MS Excel and VB code to plot multiple data parameters (work projects WP03b, WP05, WP08, WP09, WP10 of the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project).
(this work done on contract for
Emergency Management Alberta,
Alberta Municipal Affairs).
Elegant Computing Productions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
This is my own small company which thus far has primarily offered small scale web page design and management (cf. the 'Experience and Skills' section below for a list of web sites developed).
Monitoring Branch, Water Management Division, Alberta Environment, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Provide technical support to widely dispersed field staff who are engaged in water quantity & quality and
climate monitoring all across Alberta. Includes assistance in site selection, monitoring equipment selection, testing and configuring
(datalogger programming, etc.), development of field and lab data management tools and methodologies.
Assist in the selection and/or development of new monitoring methodologies or technologies.
Provide IT (Information Technology) support to the staff.
Develop and maintain computer databases for use by regional and headquarters staff. During this period I developed three major MS Access databases for use by the Branch (and many others); cf. 'Experience and Skills' section below.
Carry out other computer programming as required.
Support the Branch in other operations.
Hydrogeology Branch, Technical Services & Monitoring Division
Alberta Environmental Protection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
microseismic monitoring, rock deformation monitoring, groundwater geophysics, computer programming, computer network administration, computer hardware and software purchasing
Institute of Earth & Planetary Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
conducting large and small scale magnetometer array studies of western Canada
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
paleomagnetic research on Himalayan rocks
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York, U.S.A.
operated a temporary seismic station in Kathmandu, Nepal while negotiating with the Government of Nepal regarding a major seismic project in Nepal; volunteer lecturing at Tribhuvan University, as below
Department of Geology (Trichandra Campus) and Department of Physics (Kirtipur Campus)
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
setting up and teaching new geophysics courses for M. Sc. students of geology and physics; also lecturing in physical geology, geomorphology, photogeology
Beckton Stock Farm, Sheridan, Wyoming, U.S.A.
creating computer programs for accounting; miscellaneous ranch work including operation and maintenance of farm machinery
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
teaching first year university level physics course
Institute of Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
research in paleomagnetism of Precambrian rocks
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
research in glaciology of volcanoes and paleomagnetism of Quaternary volcanic rocks
Physics Department, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
teaching undergraduate level physics laboratory courses
Prithwi Narayan College and Pokhara Multi-Purpose High School, Pokhara, Nepal
secondary and college teaching of mathematics and physics; organized and operated a lending library
| English | French | Nepali | |
| reading ability | Excellent | Good | Adequate |
| writing ability | Excellent | Adequate | Adequate |
| speaking ability | Fluent | Adequate | Fluent |
Cross country skiing, down-hill skiing, ski mountaineering, mountain climbing, hiking, kayaking, sailing, photography, water color painting, amateur radio, electronics, computers, reading, music, opera, singing, carpentry, genealogy.
This page last updated 9 October, 2007