Mustagh Resources :: Our People

Norm Cooper, P. Geoph. - President

Mustagh Resources Ltd. was founded by Norm Cooper in 1983. Norm obtained his B.Sc. in geophysics from the University of British Columbia in 1977. During his university training, he spent two years working in the mining industry.

After graduation, he worked for Amoco Canada at various levels of responsibility. He gained experience in acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data throughout the Western Canada Basin and the Michigan Basin of Southwest Ontario. during this time he benefited from Amoco's complete training program. In his latter years at Amoco he also contributed to their training program as an instructor.

In 1981 he moved to Voyager Petroleums Ltd. where he expanded his operational and interpretation experience in the Western canada Basin, the Wilfliston Basin and the Beaufort Sea. During this time he also taught Introductory Geophysics for the continuing education program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Yajaira Herrera - Geophysicist

Yajaira earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Zulia in Venezuela in 1994. She worked from 1992 to 1995 in the Venezuelan oil industry where she applied her engineering background.

After moving to Canada in 1995, she obtained a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Calgary in February of 1999. Then she decided to give a try to geophysics working in the exploration field with Mustagh Resources Ltd.

Having falling in love with this science, she decided to go back to school and in 2005 she graduated from University of Calgary with a Master of Science in Geophysics degree. Her learning experience has been non-stop. She works actively in the design of 3D surveys, the operation of seismic programs and the management and instruction of Mustagh's seismic courses.

Yajaira has brought an inquisitive spirit and efficiency to the company. Her current contributions are significant, her future potential is great.

Michael Cooper - Senior Software Developer

An interest in developing simple models to describe complex situations led Michael to pursue a program in Physics and Pure Mathematics at the University of Calgary. He is currently completing degrees in these two fields while working full-time with Mustagh.

Michael has been working full-time with Mustagh, developing the DirectAid survey design software, since 1999. He has been programming computers for more than twenty years, mainly in C/C++. Michael has done extensive work with OpenGL, attempting to leverage developments in game-driven programming and hardware to solve visualization challenges.

Michael brings to Mustagh an innovative and ambitious approach to solving survey design and mapping software challenges.