Cain & Barnes

Michael Barnes is co-owner of Cain & Barnes, L.P., experts in geomatics, geospatial data management and mapping scicences and has 32 years of experience.  Prior to forming the consultancy, Michael held a range of executive, technical and marketing appointments with Thales GeoSolutions (formerly Racal Survey). He also worked for GPS Survey Services managing worldwide projects for 5 years, and was a surveying engineer and mapmaker for British Military Survey for over 11 years.  He has published over twenty professional papers on petroleum geomatics topics. While in Military Survey, Michael carried out geodetic and mapping projects in 22 countries, including survey projects in Kenya, Ireland, Scotland, Cyprus, Peru and the UK.  He was Senior Party Chief on the Geodetic Survey of Nepal in 1984-1985.

Michael is a Chartered Surveyor of the Geomatics (Land and Hydrographic Society) Division of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He was awarded the Wainwright Prize by the RICS for summa cum laude on professional and technical examinations.  Michael Barnes was educated at the Royal School of Military Survey and the University of East London, with additional graduate studies Rice University and Harvard Business School.   He has held professional leadership positions in Americas Petroleum Survey Group (APSG), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Institute of Navigation (ION), and the Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA). He recently served as Chairman of the APSG and, in October 2009, was presented with a "Distringuished Service Award" by the APSG for the past ten years of outstanding service to the organization.

Jim Cain is co-owner of Cain & Barnes, L.P., based in Houston. Before forming the consultancy in 2004, Jim was active in the offshore industry for over 30 years. He held various technical , managerial and executive positions with Decca Survey, Racal Survey, Western Geophysical (now WesternGeco) and as Vice President, International Marketing, for Thales GeoSolutions.  His primary strengths in the various geomatics disciplines stem from years of responsibility for international geodetic, hydrographic and high-accuracy GPS surveys around the globe.  Jim has been key to the 13-member GIGS JIP working to improve Geospatial Integrity in Geoscience Software, and recently completed a 60-month in-house geodetic assignment at ExxonMobil.  ExxonMobil presented Jim with their "Outstanding Instructor" award.  In June 2008, Jim along with colleagues Roger Lott and Roel Nicolai were honored by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) in recognition for their "dedicated work on the creation, development and public release of the European Petroleum Survey Group database . . . thereby conferring an incalculable benefit on the geoscience community at large."   Jim holds a B.S. (cum laude) in Meteorology and an M.S. in Physical Oceanogrpahy from Texas A&M University. He also completed his comprehensive Ph.D. candidacy exams in Physical Oceanography in 1971, but left to work in idustry prior to completing his doctoral dissertation. While at Texas A&M, Jim was inducted ito four separate US National Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi (General Scholastics), Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Geosciences), Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics) and Chi Epsilon Pi (Meteorology).

 Jim led Western Geophysical's GPS Services Group from 1984 through 1996, charged with marketing and sales of the Company’s manufactured GPS equipment and all contract geodetic survey services performed by the Company. Equipment sold included high-accuracy GPS equipment into Japan, the Peoples’ Republic of China, ROC (Taiwan), Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Germany, Norway and several other countries. Jim was also directly responsible for managing the sub decimeter-level GPS geodetic surveys performed by Western during this period, including establishment of Western's global SARGAS network. GPS survey projects were in Norway, Greece, UK, Djibouti, Somalia, Cameroon, South Africa, Senegal, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Maldives, Australia, Cocos Islands, Malaysia, et. al.