About

Hello! I am Drew Branson. I'm a Geological Engineer-In-Training, Geospatial Analyst, UAV Pilot

Basic Information
Email:
drewbranson@geosolutions.com
Phone:
613-893-0019
Address:
124 McGill Rd, Kamloops, BC, Canada
Professional Skills
Python
Proficient
R
Intermediate
ESRI suite and QGIS
Proficient
Web Development
Basic
BASH
Proficient
Powershell
Proficient
Work Experience

March 2023 - Present

BGC Engineering
Geological Engineer-In-Training

Geological Engineer-In-Training with BGC Engineering

May 2021 - March 2023

TRE Altamira
Geospatial Analyst

Managed InSAR projects from feasibility analysis to data delivery. Head of the scripting team and SFTP management team. Used Python, R and Powershell.

July 2020 - April 2021

Pioneer Exploration
Field Manager

Conducted UAV magnetics surveys, in charge of piloting, flight planning, monitoring UAV telemetry in flight and data QC. I am currently in the process of obtaining my commercial drone pilot license. Projects have required numerous methods of site access such as Sherp/Fattruck, snowmobile and helicopter.

November 2017 - July 2020

Queen's University
Geophysics Research Assistant

Planning and execution of field survey in BC targeting podiform chromite occurrences in Quesnel Terrane. Including ~200 line-km of ground magnetics with some EM-31 and RES/IP.

May 2017 - August 2017

Geological Survey of Canada
Permafrost Research Assistant

Multiple field projects as well as GIS based periglacial feature identification and mapping project along the Dempster and Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highways.

Field work along the Mackenzie River valley and delta from Wrigley to Tuktoyaktuk, the Great Slave region, NWT and the Kivaliq region, Nunavut. The work included active layer probing, swapping data loggers, thermistor cables, thaw tubes, weather stations and near-surface ground temperature loggers. Assisted with maintaining, taking down, conducting experiments related to thermal gradients, permafrost degradation in burned areas, lithalsas, sand wedge formation, thaw slumps, thermokarst lakes and deformation of abandoned roads. Assisted in running electrical resistivity tomography surveys, drilling programs to install thermistor cables with heave sleeves and ground truthing of DInSAR observations from RADARSAT-2 and ALOS-2.

Education

2018 - 2022

Master's of Applied Science
Geological Engineering

Queen's University - Geophysics and Geodesy

Courses in Satellite Positioning, Satellite Geophysics, Metallogeny and Economics of Mineral Exploration

Presented research at PDAC 2020 and FRINGE 2021

Thesis on Chromite Exploration and Deformation Monitoring through PSINSAR

2014 - 2018

Bachelor's of Applied Science
Geological Engineering

Queen's University

University courses in: Geotechnical Engineering, Advanced Applied Geophysics, Vector Calculus, Terrain Analysis and GIS, Database Management, Visualization in Geoscience, Quantitative Analysis in MATLAB, Groundwater Engineering, Subsurface Contamination, Differential Equations, Rock Engineering Design, Rock Structures, Geochemistry, Statistical Analysis, Mineralogy, Petrology, Sedimentology, Engineering Economics, Urban Geography, Law, Environmental Toxicology. Presented independent research at the Inquiry at Queen's.

Volunteered as a Gael (orientation leader), OTIS (orientation week volunteer), Miller Club (Geological Sciences and Engineering Student Government) and Peer Support.

Contact Me
Feel free to contact me

Address

124 McGill Rd, Kamloops, BC V2C 1L7

Phone

613-893-0019

Email

drewbranson@geosolutions.com