Landslide Technology :: Noah Kimmes

Noah Kimmes

Registration
Civil Engineer – Oregon

Geologist in Training - Wyoming

Career
2016 – Present – Staff Engineer,
Cornforth Consultants

Education
2016 M.S. Underground Construction and Tunneling - Colorado School of Mines,
Golden, Colorado

2014 B.S. Geological Engineering –
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN

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

Member, Oregon Section of Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists

Member, Oregon Section of American Society of Civil Engineers

Staff Engineer

Mr. Kimmes has 4 years of experience specializing in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West. Rock slope stabilization is an area of expertise, including investigating, designing, and observing installation of rockfall and rock slide mitigation measures, and 3D rock slope data visualization. His experience also includes development and implementation of difficult-access subsurface explorations geotechnical field reconnaissance, geologic mapping, evaluation and mitigation of landslides, as well as design and installation of geotechnical instrumentation. He is an active member of the CCI rope access team with extensive experience conducting on-slope work related to reconnaissance, investigation, design and construction support for rock slope stability projects.

Mr. Kimmes has served as an engineer or engineering geologist on the following representative projects.

Representative projects:

Seward Highway Rockfall Mitigation, Anchorage, Alaska
Klondike Highway, Captain William Henry Moore Bridge Replacement, Skagway, Alaska
Historic Columbia River Highway Trail, Hood River, Oregon
Columbia Anderson Quarry, Yakima, Washington
Seward Highway Rockfall Earthquake Emergency, Anchorage, Alaska
Icy Straight Gondola, Hoonah, Alaska
Little River Road Rock Slope Stabilization, Glide, Oregon
Prospect P1 Penstock Rockfall, Prospect, Oregon
Hecla Greens Creek Mine Geotechnical Explorations and Landslide Evaluations, Admiralty Island, Alaska
Targhee Pass Geotechnical Investigations, Island Park, Idaho
Mobridge Landslide, US Hwy 191, Montana

Selection of technical presentations:

Preliminary Rockfall Evaluation for the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail, Segment E, 70th Annual Highway Geology Symposium (HGS), Portland, Oregon