Our Team​

Eldon Gath, Founder and President of ECI, is a leader in the engineering geology profession, both technically and professionally for over 30 years.  He has developed award-winning public safety hazard management plans, led geological and seismic investigations for dozens of $250M-$5B development and infrastructure projects, represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation cases involving upwards of $3B in claims, written dozens of published papers including two “papers of the year” awards, given hundreds of technical talks to colleges, professional meetings, and civic organizations including a year as a “distinguished lecturer in applied geology”, and has served as the President of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists and the North American Vice President for the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment.  His projects have spanned ten countries from Turkey to Papua New Guinea, including quantifying the seismic history and hazard of central Panama for the Panama Canal expansion project.  His experience includes paleoseismic investigations of dozens of faults, coastal LNG siting, municipal and county hazard management plans, dam, canal and tunnel design studies, landslide and debris flow hazard investigations, highway and bridge design investigations, seismic design models, wind turbine siting studies, and dozens of land development planning and environmental impact studies.  He is a Past-President and Honorary Member of the South Coast Geological Society, a Past-President and Life Member of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.