KEGS Executive Members

Peter Tschirhart, President

Peter Tschirhart is a senior consulting geophysicist at Paterson, Grant & Watson Limited based out of Toronto. At PGW, he has been predominately involved with interpretation, modelling and technical supervision and QA/QC of airborne geophysical data, particularly magnetic and radiometric data, for mining companies and international government agencies. Prior to joining PGW, he worked at Sander Geophysics Ltd. where he was involved with the acquisition, processing and interpretation of airborne magnetic, gravity and radiometric survey data.

Peter received a B.Sc in Earth and Environmental Science (2011) followed by an M.Sc in Earth Science (2013) both from McMaster University. He is a practicing registered Professional Geoscientist with the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (PGO).

Darren Burrows , Vice President

Darren graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2006 with a Geophysics (Hons) degree. Initially he worked in the deep Gold mines of South Africa analysing mining induced seismicity, and working with rock engineers to ensure safe underground mining conditions. He then moved to a Platinum exploration project in the Bushveld Igneous Complex planning drillholes, logging core and managing exploration data. Finally, he moved to airborne geophysics with Fugro / CGG / Xcalibur where he has held various roles focussing on geophysical data processing & interpretation as well as business development. At Xcalibur he helps mineral, energy, and government explorers design airborne geophysical programs to answer their exploration questions.

Emily Data, Secretary Treasurer

Emily is a geophysicist in the mineral exploration industry with experience working for leading geophysical companies in several countries world-wide. Her career started in the field, collecting and processing ground geophysical data, then transitioning to data processing management in both ground and airborne geophysics. Currently, Emily is the Data Processing Manager at Expert Geophysics Limited.

Micki Allen, Executive Director

Micki Allen is the President of Marac Enterprises a highly successful Trade Show Logistics and Event Planning company in the Geophysical & Mining Industry since 1995.   She is the Executive Director and a member of KEGS.  She was the Convention Manager for DMEC’s successful Exploration ’07 and Exploration ’17 conferences, and she is a director of DMEC.  Her other memberships and duties include EAGE (NSG Committee), SEG (SEG Council), EAGE (International Board Liaison) and PDAC (Exhibitor Advisory Committee)