Core Personnel

John Garlick

Martin Reynolds

Richard Russell

PhD

With more than 20 years of experience in geomorphology and photogeology, Richard Russel has worked in Australia, China, Cyprus, Indonesia, Mauritania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, the United Kingdom and other countries in Africa and the Middle East. He has been associated with Mackay & Schnellmann Pty Limited on a contractual basis since the mid 1990s in carrying out interpretation of imagery produced by the GIS Department of Mackay & Schnellmann Pty Limited and in prospectivity studies of mineral deposits.

Richard has experience with diamonds, gold, heavy mineral sands and petroleum. He has identified mineral sand environments using Landsat and aerial photographs, evaluated alluvial gold and diamond deposits, conducted geomorphological reconstructions of palaeo alluvial environments for defining new exploration targets and has applied remote sensing to mineral and oil exploration using Landsat, SPOT, NOAA, radar, airborne MSS and aerial photography and has experience in geophysical data interpretation.

Richard has also undertaken erosion and sedimentation hazard studies and flood, landslide and sand hazard mapping for urban and engineering developments.