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The HARPOON: Vista Clara’s New Weapon Combining CPT + NMR
Long-awaited — and yes, I did sign an NDA on this one a good while ago! — Vista Clara’s latest borehole tool has finally surfaced: a...
thomasgorgas
Oct 81 min read


More Precise Groundwater Drilling using Geo-Magnetic Resonance (GMR)
Pilot Project Schechen – Essence of Insights As part of our pilot project in Schechen , we conducted an important comparison: Our G eo- M...
thomasgorgas
Sep 102 min read


GIS + NMR + VDI (Vertical Data Integration): A Full Service Package!
How smart presurveying saves time, money and nerves when it comes to drilling for groundwater. Drilling into the Earth can be quite an...
thomasgorgas
Jun 83 min read


VDI – Vertical Data Integration: First Test Run Using “Schechen” Data
After our initial – and admittedly somewhat bumpy – attempts with a regional pilot project to assess groundwater and soil moisture using...
thomasgorgas
May 43 min read


Easter 2025: Tree Planting in Ismaning – and for the World
Happy Easter!🐰 Springtime in Ismaning is, as always, a real feast for the senses – blooming trees, colorful flowers, and nature bursting...
thomasgorgas
Apr 202 min read


Work in Progress: First Commercial Geo-MR Measurement in Our Region
Schechen | Rosenheim, March 31, 2025 Exactly three years after our move to Southern Bavaria—and the launch of my entrepreneurial...
thomasgorgas
Apr 73 min read


Antropocene Logbook 20241231-20250101: “Ciao 2024 - Servus 2025 with a spirit of optimism!”
The turn of the year “2023-24” was all about: “A super-awesome year (2023) is over - the next one will be tough...” And that is exactly...
thomasgorgas
Dec 31, 20242 min read


Anthropocene logbook 20241220: ‘Magdeburg’ - and a childish Christmas wish...
To all those who appreciate or prefer the conventional tradition of the Christmas and New Year greeting ( compared to the 1st less...
thomasgorgas
Dec 22, 20242 min read


“Mele Kalikimaka 2024”: Merry Christmas and a Kitsch-Filled Start into a splendid "2025"!
To all of you out there who “do,” “create,” “try,” sometimes fail but keep going anyway – without losing your spirit or your sense of...
thomasgorgas
Dec 8, 20242 min read


NUMAX technology: Geo-MR innovation for improved groundwater exploration and mineral extraction
As indicated a few weeks ago: VISTA-CLARA Inc. is not standing still when it comes to the further development and innovations on their...
thomasgorgas
Oct 1, 20241 min read


"Looking for Water? - We'll find it for you!"
The chapel of St. Koloman at the southern tip of Ismaning : Until now, the absolute "favourite burrowing territory" of our indomitable...
thomasgorgas
Sep 27, 20242 min read


A Journey Down Memory Lane
As this NYT article reached me this morning, I couldn’t help but reflect on how my career with the ODP/IODP aboard the JOIDES...
thomasgorgas
Aug 27, 20242 min read


A Year of Innovation & Progress: Developments at home|Vista-Clara Inc. since the "Mega-GEO-MR-Tour-2023"
It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since I completed my impressive 6,000 km mega-GEO-MR tour through the western part of...
thomasgorgas
Jul 27, 20242 min read


"Gotta push!": How to achieve the best GEO-MRI results
Who in Germany doesn't know Heinrich Zille's saying: "You have to push!"? (Note: translated more precisely with "Gotta press!") At the...
thomasgorgas
Jun 9, 20241 min read


Spring fever in Nantesbuch | Southern Bavaria: Geo-MRI surface profiling on a bog meadow in the Pre-Alps
"Jo mei – so schee!" (Bavarian for: "This is soooo nice!") You can't normally come up by yourself with such a beautiful jump-start into...
thomasgorgas
Mar 23, 20242 min read


Anthropocene Logbook 20240115: Resilience Strength - "Ride, Kathy, Ride!"
Most of us have role models in life: male | female | sometimes even animals. In my case, one role model always sticks out in form of a...
thomasgorgas
Jan 17, 20243 min read


Anthropocene logbook entry 20240101 @476 m.a.s.l. | latitude: 48°13'35.924 "N | longitude: 11°40'17.256 "E - "Resilience Strength 2024"
If you look around the world at the moment, you can get scared. Logical! Even as a “bystander” you have to work really hard on yourself...
thomasgorgas
Jan 1, 20241 min read


Anthropocene logbook entry 20231223: "Crisis Mode Year 2023” vs. "Be(come) a NM(Sc)R"
"Crisis Mode" is THE "German Keyword of the Year 2023" - how sad ... Without wanting to appear ignorant about the current mood in the...
thomasgorgas
Dec 23, 20231 min read


Anthropocene logbook entry 20231205: “NMR-h20-exploration” vs.“Climate Change: No reversal!"
“There is no point of return!” – at least when it comes to the climate change and global warming. Many say: "You can, perhaps you should,...
thomasgorgas
Dec 5, 20232 min read


Anthropocene logbook entry 2008-2023: “Ismaning|BY - Where urban building heat comes from the earth"
According to the IHK | Munich currently only covers 0.5% of the heat demand in the geothermal energy flagship state of Bavaria (BY). The...
thomasgorgas
Oct 29, 20232 min read
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