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Team

Our team of environmental consultants has varied expertise and experience in northern and central Australian environments.  We place a high value on employing local people who know the place, the people and the way things work.  This philosophy has enabled EcOz to grow over the past 25 years, from two people working from home in Alice Springs, to being the largest team of environmental consultants in the Territory.   Our people are qualified, professional and competent working in the often harsh conditions experienced in the remote parts of Australia.

Principal Consultants

Ray Hall

Director & Principal Environmental Consultant

BSc MEIANZ CEnvP

Ray is a Certified Environment Practitioner with EIANZ with over 25 years experience in Northern Australia. He has extensive experience in the NRM field, including pioneering innovative NRM based business development, especially for Indigenous Groups. He has environmental experience in the resources industry including baseline environmental investigations (soil, water and vegetation work, aquatic ecology and general flora and fauna surveys), as well as ongoing compliance and closure planning. Ray is a member of the NT Natural Resource Management Board.

Jeff Richardson

Principal Environmental Consultant

BSc

Jeff is trained as an ecologist and has over 20 years of professional experience in senior science, policy and land and water management positions in state and federal government and consultancy. Jeff has broad science and policy experience and has worked across Australia performing biological surveys, managing threatened species, regional land management activities including prioritisation, monitoring and reporting, while working with mining companies, NRM groups, NGOs, pastoral groups and government departments.

Managing Consultants

Kylie Welch

Managing Consultant - Impact Assessment and Approvals

MSSc BSc (Hons)

Kylie is a Certified Environment Practitioner with 18 years’ experience in environmental impact assessment and management in northern Australia. She is experienced at negotiating environment and land-use approvals for a range of different land-uses. Her skills include managing multi-disciplinary project teams, impact and risk assessment (EIA/EIS), environmental policy and compliance, and environmental communications. Kylie has studied a Masters of Social Science and has a keen interest in integration of social impact assessment within EIA.

Tom Reilly

Managing Consultant - Alice Springs

MSSc Bsc (Hons)

Tom is an ecologist with 15 years’ experience working in northern and Central Australia. He has a broad range of project experience in mining, development, scientific research, and government projects. He also has skills in water and soil quality monitoring, sediment and erosion control plans, and GIS mapping. After working in the Darwin office for 10 years, Tom has moved to Alice Springs to establish a local presence for delivering EcOz central Australian projects.

Glen Ewers

Managing Consultant - Ecology

BSc, LLB, Dip Arts (Envtl Studies), Grad Cert (Ornithology)

Glen is an environmental scientist who has worked around Australia in a range of capacities relating to NRM, and especially ornithology. His passion is birds, but the depth and diversity of his professional experiences gives him a range of consultancy skills. With EcOz since 2012, Glen has undertaken or led fauna surveys throughout the Top End at sites as diverse as Tiwi Islands, Finniss River, Noonamah, East Point, Pine Creek, East Arnhem Land and Katherine; as well as in Cape York, Central Australia, Mt Isa and the Kimberley. Glen is also an experienced project manager, having delivered several significant components of several large EIS projects. He has authored or contributed significantly to numerous Notices of Intent and EIS chapters.

Helen Dwyer

Managing Consultant - Water

BEnvMan (Hons)

Helen is an environmental scientist with 8 years’ experience working predominantly in remote parts of the Northern Territory. She has worked in environmental advisory positions in the mining industry and variety of projects including development and implementation of surface water and groundwater monitoring programs, Mine Management Plans, Waste Discharge License applications, environmental assessment and approvals documentation, Land Capability Assessments, and environmental audits.

Bruce Ryan

Managing Consultant - Mining

Cert Eng (Elec), BSc (Earth Science), Grad Dip (Env Chem), Grad Cert (GW Hyd), MSPERA, MIAH

Bruce is an environmental and radiation specialist with more than 28 years experience working in the mining sector. He has worked for the Commonwealth Government as a research scientist and a mining regulator. He has worked as a consultant in senior safety, health, environmental and radiation management roles in industry, government and on international projects. This included working with the IAEA, international universities and NGO's. He worked for almost six years in senior management roles in operational mine sites in Africa. He has a keen interest in groundwater and isotope studies.

Senior Consultants

Emma Smith

Senior Environmental Consultant

BSc (Hons)

Emma is an environmental scientist with over 16 years’ experience developing water quality monitoring programs, water management plans and conducting surveys and assessments in both freshwater and estuarine environments. She also has experience in monitoring of groundwater, stormwater, trade waste and potable (drinking) water. Emma previously worked for the Commonwealth Government research organisation Geoscience Australia conducting research and coordinating fieldwork investigations into the impact of catchment pollutants on estuarine health.

Felicity Watt

Senior Environmental Consultant

BSc (Hons)

Felicity is a spatial and environmental professional with over 15 years experience working across Northern Australia in a range of capacities relating to fire and natural resource management. She is proficient in a range of GIS and Remote Sensing systems, and has experience managing large spatial datasets. She has worked extensively with fire managers, and has co-authored a technical guide to using spatial information for fire management.

Corinne Hutchinson

Senior Environmental Consultant

BESc, MEM

Corinne is an environmental scientist with over 9 years’ experience working in the Northern Territory, Victoria and overseas. She is experienced in developing and implementing environmental monitoring programs and management plans for the mining, oil and gas and infrastructure sectors, and is knowledgeable in the regulatory framework and compliance requirements of operations in the NT under both NT and Commonwealth Government legislation. She has specialist knowledge in surface and groundwater quality monitoring and soil contamination assessments.

Emma Lewis

Senior Environmental Consultant

BSc

Emma Lewis is an environmental scientist who grew up in Darwin before moving to QLD to study Environmental Science at Griffith University. She has 10 years’ experience working in remote QLD and the NT, for the construction industry, state and local government. She has experience working in waste management, environmental monitoring and assessment and environmental approvals. She has worked on a variety of projects including development and implementation of Waste Management Plans and Strategies, operational landfill and waste collection documentation, Environmental Protection Licence and Approvals documentation, and Environmental Management Plans. Specialty knowledge includes groundwater and surface water quality monitoring and reporting, environmental approvals, project management, project supervision and implementation, government reporting, and the development of environmental management plans and systems.

SUZANNE BARBER

Senior Environmental Consultant

BEnvSc

Suzanne is an environmental scientist graduating from University of New England in NSW. Suzanne grew up in rural NSW and has lived in the NT for the last 15 years. She has 9 years’ experience in the resources industry in the Northern Territory developing and implementing environmental management plans, mining management plans, environmental approvals, waste discharge licence applications and reporting, planning and coordinating land management (fire and weeds), water management (surface, groundwater, macro invertebrates) and land rehabilitation. She has proficient GIS mapping capabilities. She also has experience in the biosecurity, agricultural and animal health fields.

Environmental Consultant

Narelle Harvey

Environmental Consultant

BEnvSc

Narelle is an environmental scientist with over ten years’ experience in both NSW and the NT. She has experience in environmental approvals, construction and operation environmental management plans, land capability assessments, property development plans, erosion and sediment control plans, land clearing assessments, water quality monitoring and contamination assessments.

Nicole Clark

Environmental Consultant

BSc

Nicole is an environmental scientist who was born and grew up in the NT, before moving away to study Conservation and Wildlife Biology in Perth. She has 5 years’ experience working in northern Australia undertaking flora and fauna surveys, water quality monitoring (both surface water and ground water), soil sampling and vegetation (rehabilitation) monitoring projects. Nicole’s key area of interest is botany and she continues to develop her skills in this area undertaking flora surveys.

Andrew Lewis

Environmental Consultant

BSc

Andy is an environmental scientist who grew up in Darwin before moving to Adelaide to study Marine Biology at Flinders University. Since completing his studies, he as worked in the mining construction industry and a variety of other projects across urban, rural and remote areas of the Territory. His project experience includes contaminated land assessments, surface and groundwater monitoring programs, mine management plans and fauna surveys.

Jack Dymalla

Environmental Consultant

BSc

Jack is an environmental scientist graduating from University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Marine Biology. He has excellent practical and bush skills and has worked on a variety of projects across urban, rural and remote areas of the Territory. Some of these projects include contaminated land assessments, surface and groundwater monitoring programs, mine management plans and fauna surveys. Areas of specialty include groundwater, surface water and leachate quality monitoring, soil, potable water, air, noise and marine sediment testing.

Bill Dwyer

Environmental Consultant

BSc

Bill is an Environmental Scientist with experience in remote, rural, urban and industrial areas across the Northern Territory. These projects include ongoing surface and groundwater monitoring programs, contaminated land assessments and fauna surveys. Areas of speciality include the monitoring of leachate, groundwater and surface water, soil, potable water and air.

Clare Millen

Environmental Consultant

BSc

Clare is an environmental scientist with Honours in fire ecology, with 12 years’ experience working in the environmental industry. Before starting with EcOz Clare worked in species information and data management for the Northern Territory Government Flora and Fauna Division and the Victorian Environment Department. Prior to this Clare has worked in a variety of roles involving environmental project management, policy research and field work. Clare has extensive field work experience using a wide range of fauna and flora survey techniques both for targeted threatened species and general biodiversity. Clare has specialist expertise in data management and analysis and GIS.

Adele Faraone

Environmental Consultant

BEng (Env) (Hons)

Adele is an environmental engineer who has a breadth of experience across the water sector. Originally from Victoria, Adele has worked across various urban development and water quality projects across New South Wales, ACT and Victoria. Before starting with EcOz, Adele was working in Victoria in the urban development sector, specialising in water infrastructure modelling, design and construction, urban development planning permit approvals for stormwater management plans, works in conservation area applications and integrated water management plans. She has a sound understanding of Australian hydrology and hydraulic design. Adele also has experience in GIS analysis and data management.

Britanny Crescentino

Environmental Consultant

BEnvSc

Britanny is an environmental scientist graduating from Charles Darwin University with a Bachelor of Environmental Science. Before starting with EcOz Britanny has worked in environmental roles in both the mining and oil & gas industry. She has hands on experience managing environmental compliance on operational sites, in the areas of environmental monitoring, dangerous goods and hazardous substance management, waste management, water manager and compliance monitoring and reporting. Britanny has a detailed working knowledge of NT mining and environment legislation through her work within the NT Government Mineral Titles Department. She has also undertaken occupational hygiene training.

Ella-Monique Mason

Environmental Consultant

BEnvSc

Ella is an Environmental Scientist graduating from Charles Darwin University with over 7 years’ experience in field studies in the NT. Since completing her studies, Ella has worked in various research, and natural resource management projects throughout the Territory. Her project experience includes flora and fauna surveys, potable water sampling, data entry and analysis and reporting.

David Carroll

IT/Geospatial Systems Manager and Environmental Consultant

BSc

David is a GIS analyst with five years’ experience and has a strong understanding of cartographic principles and the data requirements of environmental science. He has a varied range of skills including: desktop analysis, geoprocessing, data management, data flow models and scripting.

Administration

Lyndall Ryan

Administrator

Lyndall has 25 years’ experience in office administration in various industries. She plays an integral role in day to day running of the EcOz office, financial administration, payroll and invoicing. Lyndall is currently studying a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science.