Hello! I am Drew Branson. I'm a Geological Engineer-In-Training, Geospatial Analyst, UAV Pilot
March 2023 - Present
Geological Engineer-In-Training with BGC Engineering
May 2021 - March 2023
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
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
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
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.
2018 - 2022
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
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.
Address
124 McGill Rd, Kamloops, BC V2C 1L7
Phone
613-893-0019
drewbranson@geosolutions.com