Short Course #2 (Cold Regions Water Management) Instructors:

Tom Sharp, Ph.D., PE, PEng

Tom Sharp is a civil/environmental engineer at SRK Consulting with over 20 years experience in mine water management and treatment at sites in North America, Europe, South America, and Central Asia. He has prepared numerous mine water management plans. He has designed water management infrastructure including interception channels, diversion channels, rock drains and sedimentation ponds water. In addition to his hydrotechnical experience, he also has developed numerous water quality predictive models for mines and metallurgical facilities. He also has significant experience in the research, development, testing, design, operation and cost estimation of mine water treatment systems as well as evaluating management and disposal alternatives for water treatment sludge and other residual products.

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Michael Royle, MAppSc. PGeo

Michael Royle is a Principal Hydrogeologist at SRK Consulting with over 25 years’ of project experience in Canada, USA, South America, Australia, and Africa.  Much of the work has included running multidisciplinary programs as project manager and lead hydrogeologist in the Canadian and US arctic regions.  His project experience includes slope stability investigations and depressurisation, open pit and underground mine dewatering, rock mass characterization, mine closure, tailings dam seepage, environmental monitoring, and contaminant hydrogeology.  Michael worked in instrumentation prior to hydrogeology, so his geological experience and instrumentation knowledge have been used to guide the planning and investigation the groundwater aspects of mining projects.  He was the first to start installing deep, grouted transducer systems and using the Westbay MP System in permafrost environments, both of which are becoming standard approaches for assessing deep sub-permafrost hydrogeological environments.

 

Ivan Clark PE

Ivan is a registered Civil engineer in the state of Alaska with 18 years of experience in civil design and surface water management. He received a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Montana Teck in 2001. Following graduation, he relocated to Maryland for 8 years to pursue Civil Engineering focused on land development and surface water management. He relocated to Alaska in 2009 to peruse the challenges of Civil Engineering in Alaska with a focus on mining-related development. He has provided water management design and support for projects 16 states, 2  provinces of Canada and Mongolia. Design aspects include conveyance channels and pipe sizing for both pressure and gravity flow, spillways, water management pond sizing, dam design, mass grading plans, closure water management plans, construction support, modeling, and cost estimating.

 

Christopher Stevens, PhD

Christopher is a geocryologist at SRK Consulting with 10 years of experience working on Arctic and Subarctic projects. He specializes in permafrost and ground ice characterization, periglacial geomorphology, thermal analysis, numerical thermal modeling, and thermal design of infrastructure founded on permafrost. Prior to joining SRK in 2012, he held a national science and engineering research council position with the Geological Survey of Canada. Christopher has worked widely on both terrestrial and subsea permafrost-related to mining and oil and gas projects in the USA, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. His cold region experience has included thermal design of water and tailings management infrastructure, terrain and climate analysis, characterization of permafrost and groundwater systems, estimation of mine waste freezeback and design of thermal covers for closure, design of environmental monitoring programs, and development of geophysical applications for monitoring of cold region processes. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings related to his area of expertise.