Our story begins in a booming year of Alberta’s energy industry: 1980. Garvin Geck founded the firm we know as Seisland Surveys Ltd. to provide conventional seismic surveying. Garvin basically “beat the dirt” in his pickup truck, chaining and surveying lines that were to be seismically shot for oil and gas potential. Raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, he always had a view to “plan for a rainy day” and think long-term, so as the years went by, we at Seisland have been very fortunate to be able to weather the energy industry’s many ups and downs. Thanks to this forward-thinking, we have been able to invest in some very advanced technologies to streamline our work, and handle more types of jobs. For example, we were among the first companies to utilize hand-held GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technology to provide field culture maps for the seismic industry. We also invested in INS (Intertial Navigation System) and barometry technology to aid in heavily treed areas where satellite reception is poor. INS has allowed us to work in underground mines, inside tunnels, and mountainous terrain. Today, Garvin still provides our leadership at Seisland, and we employ up to 70 technical and field staff who handle an enormous spectrum of mapping, surveying and GIS work. We continue to weather our industry’s “rainy days,” and we are proud to lead the way in “big picture thinking!”