Bruce Samuel
Geohazard and site investigation specialist
Bruce Samuel is a principal engineering geoscientist and project manager at RPS with over 20 years of experience in the marine survey, offshore wind, oil and gas, and telecommunication industries as a Geohazards and Site Investigation Specialist. Bruce oversees projects for public and private stakeholders related to renewable energy, regulatory bodies, and oil and gas. He provides expertise on tasks related to desktop studies, cable burial risk assessment, survey planning and tendering, survey oversight, offshore client representation and geophysical data analysis. Bruce also provides geotechnical investigation planning, geophysical/geotechnical integration for the formulation of ground models, HAZID, formulation of risk registers and risk assessments, including suitability analysis.
His recent relevant projects include ground model formulation for offshore wind projects; offshore geotechnical client representation for offshore wind projects (Ørsted, Equinor, Vineyard Wind); infrastructure favorability mapping and ground modeling for deepwater projects; integrated sequence stratigraphic assessments for well, pipeline, and cable route design (DTS); and BOEM suitability analysis studies for floating offshore wind.
Throughout his career, Bruce has worked on numerous studies for the siting of wind turbine generators, cables, pipelines, and other infrastructure in both shallow and deep water.
