BC Ministry of the Water, Land, and Air Protection
Rick Guthrie is the Regional Geomorphologist for the Ministry of Environment, Vancouver Island Region.  He has interests in several areas of
geomorphology including fluvial, Karst and the effect of landuse change, however, he is primarily recognized for his work in slope stability.  Rick
has spent more than a decade researching causes, impacts and extent of landsliding in coastal British Columbia and has published several important
papers on the subject.  He also publishes a quarterly newsletter called Island Geoscience that is available (full text) free of charge from the BC
Government website:  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/LIBRARY/Island_Geoscience.htm


BC Ministry of Energy and Mines
Nick Massey
Tel 250-952-0428; Fax 250-952-0381
e-mail nick.massey@gov.bc.ca
He is a Project Geologist with the BC Geological Survey in
Victoria.  He has experience mapping the bedrock geology of Vancouver Island
and other areas of southern BC, and digital compilation of geological maps
and data bases of various sorts. He has been involved with geological
outreach programs such as Geoscape for over fifteen years. 
Contacts: Tel 250-952-0428; Fax 250-952-0381; e-mail nick.massey@gov.bc.ca

Malaspina University-College:
Steven Earle (email: earles@mala.bc.ca) has a BSc in Geology from the University of B.C. and a PhD in Geochemistry from the University of London.  He worked in the mineral exploration industry for 20 years and has been teaching Geology at Malaspina for the past 13 years.  His academic and research interests include environmental geology, earthquakes, groundwater geochemistry, the sedimentary rocks of eastern Vancouver Island and the teaching and learning of science.

Maggie McColl (email: mccoll@mala.bc.ca) has a B.Sc. Honours in Earth Science (Co- op) from the University of Waterloo (1981), an M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of British Columbia (1987) and is a registered P.Geo. with APEGBC.  She has over ten years of mineral exploration experience primarily with VMS deposits in B.C., Yukon, Quebec and Finland.  She has taught at Malaspina for over 13 years, both in the Liberal Studies Department and as Chair of the Geology Department since 1995.  Her main interests are in geoscience outreach and science education.  She is particularly interested in using local geology as an accessible laboratory for explorations into our environment and the methods of science for students of all ages and backgrounds.

Tim Naegele, e-mail: naegelet@mala.bc.ca
He is the GIS Technician at Malaspina University-College and his educational credentials are B.Sc., M.Sc. (University of British Columbia), G.I.S. Dipl. (Sir Sandford Fleming College). 

Simon Fraser University
John J. Clague (Professor and CRC Chair in Natural Hazard Research)
Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia; Phone (604) 291-4924, fax (604) 291-4198
E-mail jclague@sfu.ca

Director, Centre for Natural Hazard Research
Former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences; current President of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA); member of numerous national and international professional committees and commissions; serves on many graduate student committees at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia; has given about 200 lectures at several North American universities, professional meetings, and public venues, and reviewed scores of papers for scientific journals.

Dr. Peter Mustard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Simon Fraser University.  His research concerns sedimentary basins of the Canadian Cordilera, especially their importance in terms of the tectonic evolution of the Cordillera.  He has been actively conducting research
concerning the Nanaimo Group for > 15 years and Counting.His website is:  http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/mustard.html.

Others:
Gwyneth Cathyl-Bickford, P.Geo.(BC), Lic.Geol.(WA)
Principal Geologist, Dunsmuir Geoscience
P.O. Box 699, Cumberland BC V0R 1S0
website: http://www.westwatermining.com/
e-mail: coalmine@island.net
Consulting colliery geologist, focussing on the Cretaceous coals of Vancouver Island and the Rocky Mountains. Have worked for a variety of private and
governmental clients, and am currently studying the economic application of non-marine sequence stratigraphy to the coal beds of the Comox and Trent River
formations. Also am working on a photographic 'core-book' of typical coal-measures lithologies from the coalfields of Vancouver Island.

David Pawliuk ( e-mail: d-rpawliuk@shaw.ca )
He is a consulting mineral exploration geologist, who has worked off and on at the northern and central Vancouver Island since 1989, but has lived in Nanoose Bay since 1993.

Jacques Houle, P.Eng.
Mineral Exploration Consultant
6552 Peregrine Road
Nanaimo, B.C. V9V 1P8
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1978 with a BASc in Geological Engineering - Mineral Exploration.  He has worked for
various mining companies primarily in Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Nevada as an exploration geologist, mine geologist and
exploration manager from 1978 to 1999.  From 2000 to 2003 he worked for the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines as Regional Geologist for Southwest
British Columbia based in Nanaimo, during which time he founded the Vancouver Island Exploration Group.  Since 2003, Jacques has worked as an
independent mineral exploration consultant working for various junior mining companies in B.C., mainly on Vancouver Island.  He is a member of the
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists, the Society of Economic Geologists, the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines, the Technical
Advisory Committee to Geoscience B.C., the External Advisory Committee to the Minor in Earth Science at Malaspina University-College and President of
the Vancouver Island Exploration Group.

Andrew Young
He is the BC / Yukon Territory representative on the Canadian Council for Geographic Education national executive and a Teacher Consultant for the Canadian Council for Geographic Education (http://www.ccge.org/); a Weather Education Resource Teacher for the American Meteorological Society; and a Geography 12 teacher at Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in Courtenay, BC.