Landslide Technology :: David LaPorte

David LaPorte

Registration
Geologist-In-Training (GIT) – Oregon

Engineering Intern (EI) – South Dakota

Career
2018 – Present Engineer
Cornforth Consultants

Education
2018 M.S. Geological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

2015 B.S. Geological Engineering
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

Honors/Societies
2017 Fulbright US Student Grant
for research in Guatemala

2016 Stout Scholarship from the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists

Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (SPRAT), Level I Rope Access Technician

Member, Oregon Section of Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists

Engineer

Mr. LaPorte has 2 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer and engineering geologist. He has worked on the investigation and design of geotechnical projects focusing on landslide stability and rockfall hazards. His experience includes dam investigations, geotechnical field reconnaissance, and geologic mapping. Landslide stability is an area of expertise, including investigating marginally stable slopes, installing and reading monitoring instrumentation, and developing stability analysis models. He is a member of the LT rope access team with experience conducting on-slope work related to reconnaissance and investigation for a scour analysis project.

Mr. LaPorte has served as an engineer on the following representative projects.

Representative projects include the following:

Marathon Equatorial Guinea Production Limited Backfill Gas Phase 2, Punta Europa, Equatorial Guinea
Marathon Equatorial Guinea Production Limited Landslide Monitoring, Punta Europa, Equatorial Guinea
Irving Avenue Bridge Slide, Astoria, Oregon
Olympic Hot Springs Road Rehabilitation, Port Angeles, Washington
North Fork Dam Scour Analysis, Estacada, Oregon
Historic Columbia River Highway Trail, Hood River, Oregon
Bond Street Retaining Wall, Astoria, Oregon
Allen Brothers Road Slide Monitoring, Castle Rock, Washington
Columbia Anderson Quarry, Yakima, Washington
Noxon and Heron Slides, Heron, Montana