I co-own a small business. Two people, no employees. We do geophysical equipment, in the general sense. Sales, rentals, service, training, customization, long term repair work for discontinued products, and some R&D when we have time. It’s super niche stuff, and we probably have less than a dozen competitors globally, all of whom are very small (like us).

With have no official relationship with Geonics (the above equipment manufacturer) and do not formally represent them in any way. We are a customer.

However, we have about a dozen of their instruments in our pool. This instrument is new, both to us, and as a product from the manufacturer.

I’m donating time on the equipment later this month to a Planetary Society research project – but I’ve never used it before. When we’re supporting the equipment in our pool, I need to be able to provide tech support and such, and to do that, I need experience surveying with them. This was one such survey. No client, just me testing a new toy. I borrowed my SO and had her film my setup and teardown, and I’ll make a tutorial video out of that when I have time to splice footage. We spent our evening together in the park on New Year’s Day. Fortunately she is also a geophysicist and can tolerate that sort of date night ;)

There isn’t much going on in c/geophysics so I’ve been sort of posting random work stuff. Like the above test data, which was a quick and dirty QGIS plot.