Ron McGowen has over 15 years of experience in the fields of environmental geology, consulting, underground injection, oil and gas operations and groundwater hydrogeology.  Mr. McGowen has extensive knowledge in the supervision, operation and management of drilling rigs as well as machinery maintenance.  Drilling experience ranges from shallow groundwater monitoring wells to deep injection wells.  In addition, Mr. McGowen has numerous years of experience in the development of computer programs and macros to compile and analyze water chemistry and reservoir tests including injection tests, drawdown tests, pressure buildup and fall-off tests for reservoir analyses, stiff diagrams, bar charts, and piper plots.