John Kingman’s formal education is in geophysical engineering (BSc. Engineering – Geophysics, 1979 Colorado School of Mines). John’s professional career has been largely research and development (R&D) related, primarily spanning drilling research in the hydrocarbon sector and geophysical exploration in the minerals (a.k.a. “hard rock”) sector. Associated expertise includes:

• Large channel-capacity geophysical system design optimized for electrical geophysical methods.
• Digital signal processing focusing on geophysical response estimation serving electrical prospecting methods.
• The induced polarization and spectral induced polarization geophysical methods.
• Ground electrode engineering.
• Bayesian inference as applied to minerals exploration.
• “Inference” approaches to estimating dynamic stress and motion states at the drill bit, based on strain and acceleration measurements in the drill string at the surface.
• Measurement-while-drilling (MWD, a.k.a. logging-while-drilling) telemetry via acoustic signal transmission in the drill string.