Darren L. Beckstrand

Registration
Engineering Geologist - OR, WA

Geologist - OR, WA, AK, WY, ID

Career
2000 - present
Senior Associate Geologist
Cornforth Consultants, Portland, OR

Education
2001 M.S. in Geology
Portland State University, Portland, OR

1998 B.S. in Geology
Portland State University, Portland, OR

Honors/Societies
Committee Member,  Geotechnical Site Characterization (AFP20), Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Past-President, Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists, Oregon Section

Past Board of Directors, Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists

Senior Associate Geologist

Mr. Beckstrand has over 20 years of experience as an engineering geologist in the Pacific Northwest. Geotechnical instrumentation is an area of expertise, with experience in designing, installing, collecting and analyzing data from slope inclinometers, vibrating wire piezometers and crackmeters, and extensometers. He has extensive experience in the evaluation, investigation, and mitigation of landslide and rockfall hazards.

Mr. Beckstrand has served as a geologist on the following representative projects:
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• Statewide Rockfall Hazard Rating System (RHRS), Montana
• St. Johns Dike Stabilization, Portland, Oregon
• SR 191 Highway Improvements, Moab, Utah
• Frog Lake Butterfly Valve House Instrumentation, Three Lynx, Oregon
• Iron Gate Access Road Rockfall, Hornbrook, California
• SR 14 Rockfall Litigation, Goldendale, Washington
• Badrock Canyon Rock Joint Instrumentation, Columbia Falls, Montana
• South Tongass Highway Construction Assistance, Ketchikan, Alaska
• Bull Run Corridor Landslide Instrumentation, Sandy, Oregon
• Gas Facility Landslide Dewatering, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa
• Third Avenue Extension, Ketchikan, Alaska
• Allen Brothers Road Slide, Longview, Washington
• Highway 2 Rockfall Mitigation, Libby, Montana
• John C. Boyle Dam Rockfall Mitigation, Keno, Oregon
• Faraday Diversion Dam Landslide Reconnaissance, Estacada, Oregon
• Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana
• Beartooth Pass Debris Flow Barrier Systems, Red Lodge, Montana
• US 26 Rock Slope Evaluations, Irwin, Idaho
• RHRS Database Design and Instruction, Virginia Department of Transportation
• Looking Glass Road Instrumentation, East Glacier, Montana
• Pioneer Mountain Eddyville Landslide Investigation and Instrumentation, Eddyville, Oregon

Selection of technical presentations and lectures:

• Jump Starting a Geotechnical Asset Management Program (paper), Transportation Research Board, Washington DC
• Alaska’s Geotechnical Asset Management Program -and- Avoiding the Slide - Planning for Transportation Modernization in Challenging Terrain, 3rd North America Symposium on Landslides, Roanoke, Virginia
• Montana’s Rock Slope Asset Management Program (RAMP), Highway Geology Symposium, Marietta, Georgia
• Geotechnical Condition Assessment and Risk Management, CEATI, Tuscon, Arizona

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​Mike Meyer - Gerry Heslin - George Machan - ​Charlie Hammond - Brent Black - Darren Beckstrand - Chris Carpenter - Ben George
​Wade Osborne -  Tom Westover - Greg Landau - Aine Mines - Logan Allender - Andy Kost - Adam Koslofsky - Sebastian Dirringer
Rachel Hunt -Justin McCarley - Aleyna Link - Michael Bunn - Andy Vessely - Larry Pierson - John Sager