BRUCE A LEYBOURNE

GEOSTREAM CONSULTING: (Founder -04 April 2003) President/Marketing Director specializing in software development for geospatial solutions and creating inputs for climate modeling.

EARTH CLIMATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ECRI): –Chief Scientist/Researcher for tectonic modulation of climate. April, 2003 to Present.

NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE -GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS: -03 April 2003 to 01 Sept. 1985. Geophysicist/Oceanographer- GS-1313-12.4. Geo-spatial development of new concepts in geophysics providing ocean reference for 3‑d circulation and flow models extension to littoral zones. Managed gravity land based reference stations, and moored current meter databases developing tectonic links to climate.

SPECIALIST GEOPHYSICIST/PHYSICAL SCIENTIST: 9/85-10/96 GS-5-11. Team member for the Department of Defense in the planning, execution, and completion of various geophysical processing projects collecting multiple survey platform data sets. Maintain and calibrate equipment in data collection on multi-mission military-surveys.

FIELD ASSIGNMENTS: Senior Scientist (SNR-GS-13) onboard reconnaissance gravity surveys in South Atlantic, 2002. Senior Gravity Representative for survey land tie in Cape Town, South Africa. Marine Geology instructor (4 years) on Navy educational outreach programs (OCEANS ALIVE and SEA SCHOLARS). Project Leader for Klein 5000/Data Sonics side-scan, acoustic back-scatter surveys. This provides ground-truth for acoustics in conjunctions with SIMRAD multibeam-swath bathymetry surveys for homeland defense. Shipboard Data Manager GS-12: ISS-60 System managing bathymetry/gravity and physical oceanography survey operations, responsible for data collection and quality. Monitor all systems and data streams, supervise watch standers and train new personnel. Back up data-sets daily and generate reports and final data package for transmission to office. Senior Gravity Representativer 11-12/99 Korea–Singapore-Okinawa onboard Sumner; 05-08/98 North Pacific onboard R/V Revelle, new land stations in Hawaii; Seabeam/3.5KHz surveys 01-03/94 Adriatic onboard Kane, reestablished land stations in Sicily, Rota and Copenhagen. 1991 – Land Tie Bermuda onboard Wyman. (6 years “at sea” on various military surveys).

EDUCATION:

~Univ. Southern Mississippi; Hattiesburg, MS, USA; Geology; 1991; Master; 3.9 GPA; 63 credit hours.

~Univ. NC At Wilmington; Wilmington, NC, USA; Geology; 1982; Bachelor; 3.4 GPA; 130 credit hours.

~Guilford County High; Greensboro, NC, USA; 1977; High School Diploma

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES and AFFILIATES:

Registered Professional Geologist in Mississippi, since 1/99. American Geophysical Union since 1991. Marine Technology Society local chapter at Stennis Space Center – Held Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasury positions over three-years 1997-1999, Served as president Southern Geological Society at University of Southern Mississippi 1983-84. Alumni and Brother of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, initiated in 1979 became Treasurer 1980-81 UNC at Wilmington.