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Our Values

We believe in building strong relationships. By communicating and collaborating with our clients, each other, and the scientific community we enrich our practice.

We believe in being innovative. By developing new techniques and services to solve our clients problems we improve our practice.

We believe in having fun. We love what we do and we love a challenge.  Bring it on!

Meet the Team

jennie watson-lamprey

Founder
Principal Engineering Seismologist
She/Her

Jennie recently learned to surf cast.

Debra Murphy

Founder
Principal Engineer
She/Her

Debra sang with Michael Jackson in middle school.

Courtney Johnson

Founder
Principal Geologist
She/Her

Courtney is predominantly left-handed but cannot use left-handed scissors.

Marc Ryan

Founder
Principal Engineer

Marc rode his bike from the Yukon, across British Columbia, and to Haines, AK... in one (very long) day.

Justin Phalen

Founder
Principal Engineer
He/Him

Justin develops casual games for iOS in his spare time, of which there is currently none.

Jerry Pascoe

Principal Engineer

Jerry is a Manchester United fan (real football!) and enjoys punk rock music.

Kathryn Francis

Senior Engineering Seismologist

Don't make Katie mad, she has a black belt in Kuk Sool Won.

Tessa Williams

Senior Engineer
She/Her

Tessa enjoys rock climbing despite her fear of heights.

Kelley Shaw

Senior Geologist
She/Her

Kelley has swum across Lake Tahoe five times and to Alcatraz twice.

Nathaniel Wagner

Project Engineer

Call Nathaniel if you'd like to know more.

Micaela Largent

Project Engineer

Micaela has skied in Patagonia.

Barry Zheng

Project Engineer
He/Him

Barry aspires to be a part-time pâtissier.

Faith Moore

Project Engineer
She/Her

Faith is in the process of completing her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification.

Sarah Smith

Project Geologist
They/She

Sarah is a competitive unicyclist.

Paige Hval

Staff Engineer
She/Her

Paige loves to paint and do pottery.

Tom Clifford

Staff Geologist

Tom is often told he looks like that one guy.

Tamar Baumer

Staff Engineer

Tamar has a growing rock collection which includes an ammonite fossil!

Michael Yust

Staff Engineer
He/Him

Michael has been successfully trained by his cat to throw toys on demand.

Charlie Carasis

Staff Engineer
They/Them

Charlie won sweepstakes (best in all divisions) in California Marching Band State Championships

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