b'PeopleNewsHans Lundbergs iso-potential image from Buchans (source: Lundberg 1957).Possibilities in Canada. This was theair. This technology in the end providedThe inquisitive Lundberg continued first Lundberg paper that discussedunviable and Lundbergs reputationto provide his talents for interesting petroleum, a topic which he focused onlikely suffered as a result. As an explorer- problems and in 1947 assisted with an in later years. geoscientist however, taking risks andanthropologic investigation near Mexico not being overly concerned with theCity. A piece in Life (1947) highlighted Post-war years opinion of the community were likelyhow Lundberg used electrical survey critical factors in his career-long successmethods to find millennium-old early In the post-war era, Lundbergs dreamat innovation and discovery. human burial sites.of aerial geophysics developed rapidly. Governments and industry wereThrough the 1940s, LundbergThe communicatorintrigued with the concept of aerialencouraged a number of younger geophysical surveys, and airbornescientists to study geochemicalLundbergs first paper was in 1919 magnetics was the first of thesetechniques for minerals exploration.and last in 1960; a total of 70 were in ideas to be implemented, largely dueThis group, documented in Brummer,English and there are likely another 15 to work by the US Navy in refiningGleeson, and Hansuld 1987, went onin Swedish (Lundberg was conversant magnetic sensors developed in the lateto form the foundations of modernin eight languages). Almost all of the 1930s by Gulf Research, which wereexploration geochemistry in Canada. papers involved an oral presentation as commercialized in the post-war era. While most of the industry focused on fixed wing applications for airborne surveying, Lundberg was intrigued by the very new helicopter platform, and was the first to bring this technology into Canada for commercial use. His younger son Sten, a former RAF fighter pilot, became the first commercial helicopter pilot in Canada. In 1946, with great fanfare (The Globe and Mail 1946), Lundberg lead an expedition to the north where the new heli-borne magnetic surveying would be applied. In that year Lundberg also developed the first airborne EM system. While the system was very limited in its capabilities, it fired the industries imagination and within a few years, two functional commercial systems were built; one by Lundberg for Conoco Oil who were looking for an innovative means to find petroleum, and the other by McPhar Geophysics for INCO. In the early 1950s, he began investigating the application of radiometrics to minerals and oil exploration, and then in the mid-1950s he championed technology whichHans Lundberg and his son Sten (to the right of the Bell 47B2) standing next to the magnetometer that claimed to measure gravity from theprojects from the bubble (source: Bell Helicopter/Jeff Evans and Ned Gilliand Collections).FEBRUARY 2020 PREVIEW 14'