What's new at NGA

NGA is selling its software development section, to focus exclusively on expanding our geophysical services. As part of this expansion, we have added personnel to our geophysical services team to improve our breadth of expertise and enable us to respond more rapidly to customer's tight schedules. We have also purchased more state of the art equipment so that we can provide better interpretations.

Exclusive focus on geophysical services

NGA's sale of its software development section to Geosoft, Inc. will allow NGA to focus exclusively on its geophysical services business. NGA will continue to provide high quality geophysical services to clients in geotechnical, environmental and groundwater industries. Rowland French, currently vice president and head of our geophysical services department, will become President and Gerry Connard will remain as Chairman of the Board. All the members of our geophysical services team will continue with NGA.

NGA's exclusive focus on geophysical services will bring many significant benefits to our customers. Focusing on geophysical services enables us to reduce our administrative burden, add to our human and equipment resources, streamline our workflow and pass on the resulting savings to our customers, through lower pricing. Our expanded capabilities and revised pricing structure puts NGA in an excellent position to provide geophysical services to clients in the Pacific Northwest and throughout North America in a timely and cost effective manner.

New Personnel

NGA is pleased to welcome Neil McKay to our staff as a Project Geophysicist. Neil has worked on geophysical projects in Hawaii and California for the past three years, most recently on the geophysical staff at the MANTEC offices in Oakland, CA. He has a degree in Geology from Central Washington University in Ellensburg. He has worked extensively with electromagnetic, ground penetrating radar and seismic refraction methods. Neil can be reached at NGA, 541-757-7231, or neil@nga.com.

New Geophysical Equipment

NGA has purchased a Geometrics 24 channel Geode system as well as both surface and downhole geophones. With these recent equipment acquisitions, NGA can respond more effectively to clients requirements for seismic refraction, downhole seismic velocity surveys, seismic surface wave analysis, and shallow seismic reflection. NGA also maintains software licenses for SeisImager (from Geometrics) and SIP Win (from RimRock Geophysics).