Kate Patterson is an associate shareholder of the consulting engineering firm Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB) and a tailings and water resource engineer in Vancouver, British Columbia. She manages a team within KCB’s Mining Environment Group and is the project manager of several multi-disciplinary, large-scale tailings facility design projects. She has been with KCB for 13 years and has worked on mining projects across the globe, including Canada, the United States, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. She led a state-of-practice study on tailings management sponsored by the Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) Program and the Mining Association of Canada from 2015 to 2017.  She is currently supporting KCB’s expansion into the southwestern United States.

Patterson has a Bachelor’s degree in civil environmental engineering from the University of British Columbia (2007) and a Masters of Engineering in hydrotechnical engineering from the University of British Columbia (2012).

She is a member of the organizing committee of the Tailings and Mine Waste symposia, hosted yearly by Colorado State University and the University of British Columbia, and sits on the board of the North American chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society.