About Us

Alpha Geoscience was established in 1997 to offer high sensitivity geophysical tools and expertise to clients in near surface targets. These include environmental industry, the ordnance clearance market, the mineral exploration and the engineering market, as an alternative to intrusive investigations.

Alpha Geoscience provides the following areas of expertise:

Geophysical Instrument Sales, Services and Rental
Geophysical Data Acquisition, Processing and Reporting
Geophysical Consulting for all geophysical targets

Alpha Geoscience is based in Sydney Australia and is capable of mobilising to any part of the world with very short notice. We have experience in operations throughout Australia, North America, Europe and South East Asia.

Staff

Since its formation, Alpha Geoscience has been building a staff of qualified and trained geophysical personnel for the Alpha Geoscience business.

Alpha has been able to provide impartial professional consultancy services to a wide range of clients, and draws on the wide practical operational experience and technical knowledge of its operational staff, as well as the use of state-of-the-art equipment and techniques.

Timothy Pippett is backed up by a number of geophysicists, technical and support staff to offer the most suitable service. Staff members have qualifications both in first aid and where explosives are required, relevant licences.

Alpha’s technical staff includes:

Timothy Pippett Managing Director B.AppSc., Dip.Bus., RP.Geo. Tim has 34 years of experience in all aspects of geophysics in mining, exploration, environmental, UXO and engineering, during this period. Over the last 10 years, he has specialised in the management of Consulting/Contracting businesses in the Geophysical and UXO fields, working in Australia, South East Asia, Europe and North America. He has also been, up until 2010, the Managing Director of BACTEC SE Asia, a UXO / EOD contracting company in Australia and Asia.
Jamie Speer Senior Geophysicist B Sc. (Hons) (Geophysics) Jamie's areas of special expertise include the near surface for Environmental, Structural, Geotechnical, UXO and Archaeological investigations. He has expertise in Mineral and Geological investigations using a variety of techniques including Magnetics, EM, Resistivity and other Electrical Techniques. He has managed a variety of geophysical projects throughout Australia, Middle East, USA, South East Asia and India.
Roger Henderson Sales Consultant for terraTEM B Sc. (Hons), M Sc. in Geophysics 38 years of continuous, active experience in exploration geophysics mainly in service company management in U.K., Canada and Australia. Commercial achievements include: gaining the world-wide rights to manufacture and market SIROTEM; supervising the design and development of innovative, rock property measuring instruments and a multi-receiver ground TEM system, ARTEMIS; coordinating the manufacture and testing of a unique airborne EM system, MIDAS; and lately, the marketing, world-wide, of terraTEM, an advanced ground TEM system. Conducted business in over 40 countries and published numerous papers on Magnetic and EM methods. Awarded Honorary Life membership of the ASEG in 1994 for distinguished contribution to the profession and to the ASEG over many years.
Sue Jaggar Senior Geophysicist BSc.(Hons)(Geophysics), LLB, PGDip (Legal Practice) Sue has extensive experience in Airborne Geophysics in Mineral and Geological investigations, with 10 years specialising in EM and Magnetics. She has worked in Australia, South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, North America, The Caribbean and Greenland. She has been involved in all aspects of survey work, from data acquisition and Project Management through to interpretation and training. For the past 10 years she has been involved in the development of Educational Programmes in East and Central Africa.
George Brabec Geophysicist B Sc. (Geophysics) George has extensive experience on a diverse range of geophysical investigations. He has particular experience in Magnetics, Time-Domain Electromagnetic (TEM) and Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) methods, GPR, largely for near surface targets such as UXO and landfill/contamination sites. George has been involved in a number of civil, environmental, archaeological and UXO investigations throughout Australia and South East Asia.

Safety

Safety is of paramount importance in all of Alpha’s activities. Commercial considerations never take precedence over safety. SOP’s are essential and are tailored in advance for each task to be undertaken, and are updated as new situations arise.

Quality Assurance

All geophysical procedures are developed so that the highest standards of professional delivery and safety are met. Alpha is seeking ISO 9001:2008 accreditation in the near future.

This also involves the monitoring of quality management systems and operational procedures before, during and after the project.

Operational Areas

Australia - Alpha has undertaken surveys in all Australian States with geophysical services, instrumentation and training, with a high client satisfaction.

International - Alpha has operated around the world and the staff have considerable project experience, not only in Australia, but also Asia, America and Europe. These countries include:

Bahrain
Mauritus
Lao PDR
Indonesia
USA (incl. Alaska)

Cambodia
Dubai
PNG
New Zealand
Malaysia

Canada
Thailand
Solomon Islands
Malaysia
Philippines

China
Kuwait
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Taiwan