A Few Words About Transparent Earth Geophysics

We are one operating arm of HZW Holdings Pty Ltd, a privately-owned company based in Western Australia. The HZW corporate structure is shown below:

The co-owners and Directors of HZW Holdings are Dr Andy Gabell, Helen Tuckett, and Wayne Hewison.

Andy and Helen were co-founders of Canadian Micro Gravity Ltd (“CMG”) with Dan Olson and Arkady Shabanov in 2003, and Wayne Hewison joined the company in 2004.

In 2012 CMG was re-structured and became a dedicated gravimeter sales company, while CMG Operations (now Transparent Earth Geophysics) was formed, with no common shareholding with CMG, to provide airborne and marine gravimetry technology and services.

Matt Gray, our Data Processing Manager has been working with us since 2006, Geoff Wells, Research Engineer, joined us in 2015, and Cassie Gabell joined our accounts department in 2016.

Collectively our staff have a wealth of experience and have been responsible for the acquisition of more than 1M line km of high quality airborne gravity data in 39 countries.

From its formation, TEG has devoted significant resources to a research and development program in pursuit of the next generation of gravimeter technology.

The most significant of these projects was a project funded by a CRC-P grant which commenced in September 2017 and finished in September 2019. Read more about the project here. The GTz^® gravimeter was also one of the outcomes of this project.

Other project outcomes resulted in the formation of Astronav in 2019 to pursue development of space navigation and gravimetry technology in collaboration with Intuitive Machines LLC of Houston, TX. Intuitive Machines is one of the first 2 companies selected by NASA to take their science payloads to the lunar surface, and they are scheduled to launch in 2021.

Our Professional Memberships

Associate Member of International Airborne Geophysics Safety Association (IAGSA) - www.iagsa.ca

Corporate Member of Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) - www.aseg.org.au

DR ANDY GABELL

Director, R&D Manager

Andy has a B Sc (Hons I) and Ph D in Geology from the University of Adelaide and more than 40 years experience in remote sensing and geophysics. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and shares 2 NASA achievement awards. Andy was then a senior manager at CSIRO before becoming the Chief Scientist and Product Development Manager at World Geoscience Corporation, then the global R&D Manager at Fugro Airborne Surveys in 2000. Andy was on the Board of Management of the CRC AMET (Australian Mineral Exploration Technologies) and oversaw development of the TEMPEST AEM system before leaving Fugro to co-found Canadian Micro Gravity, then Transparent Earth Geophysics and associated companies.