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Dr John W Anthony PhD

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Dr Steve Appleyard BSc (Hons) PhD

Steve Appleyard has been involved with groundwater quality management issues for about 30 years, principally in the Northern Territory and in Western Australia. He has a PhD ...
Jerome Arunakumaren BSc (Eng) MEng MenvMgt Grad Dip(COmpsSc) MIEAust CPENG RPEQ

Experienced hydrological modelling engineer with 20+ years direct relevant experience in engineering, computer modelling and environmental management.
Major strengths: extensive ...
Matthew Awang

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Professor Tom Baldock PhD

Tom Baldock is a Coastal Engineer and Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland. He teaches Hydraulic Engineering, Fluid Mechanics and ...
Clark Barlow

Mr. Clark Barlow, P.E., CFMCivil Engineering Consultant, Aquaveo. Mr. Barlow has worked on numerous consulting projects using the WMS software for various clients across the US and ...
Kurt Baron GISP

Professional Registration
· GIS Professional Certification (GISP), No. 00065644
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Dr Olga Barron PhD

Dr Olga Barron is Principal Research Scientist and a Group Leader “Water in the Resources Sector” in CSIRO Land and Water Flagship. With main research interests ...
Dr Mark Bayley PhD

Mark is a co-Director of Australian Wetlands, has a PhD in environmental engineering and completed his research through the CRC for Catchment Hydrology. Eager to implement his academic ...
Prof Craig Bethke PhD

Craig Bethke has been cited many times for excellence in teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of a number of prizes in ...
Michael Blackam

Michael Blackam
Coffey Environments Australia Pty Ltd
Groundwater R&D
Michael Blackam is a Senior Principal Hydrogeologist with Coffey. His areas of experience ...
Dr John Bradd PhD

Dr John Bradd has 27yrs experience as a hydrogeologist directing, coordinating, managing and conducting groundwater and water resource management projects in Australia and in ...
Rachel Braikenridge

As Senior Petroleum Engineer for field development of AGL’s Upstream Gas Assets, Rachel works on the exploration and development of natural gas from coal seams, tight gas, ...
Dr John Bright PhD, BEng (Hons), Bsc

John has thirty eight year’s experience in working with water users and managers throughout New Zealand to solve problems to do with sustainable development of water and land ...
Dr Stuart Brown PhD

Stuart Brown is a Principal Hydrogeologist at Hgeo. He has 20 years’ research and consulting experience in the fields of groundwater, geology and environmental assessment. ...
Dr Mike Cavanaugh PhD

Dr. Kavanaugh is a Senior Principal with Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., a 1200 person professional services firm specializing in environmental science, and environmental and geotechnical ...
Terry Clark

Terry is an Environmental Engineer with over 10 years direct experience in the area of soil and water. He is a Certified Practitioner in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC) and ...
John Connolly

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Randall Cox

Randall Cox is a hydrogeologist with extensive experience in groundwater management and water resources policy.
Randall is the General Manager of the Office of Groundwater ...
Greg Davis

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Dr Dean Djokic PhD

Lead developer of the Arc Hydro Tools ...
Brian Farrell MSc

Brian Farrell is the lead Geochemist at Aqueous Solutions LLC, makers of The Geochemist's Workbench. Mr. Farrell is expert in aquifer microbiology, geochemical modeling, and ...
Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick BSc (Hons) PhD

Andrew Fitzpatrick received a BSc(Hons) in geophysics from Curtin University in 1998 and a PhD in geophysics from the University of Tasmania in 2006. From 2003 to 2006 he worked ...
Dion Fleming BSc

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George Gates

Mr George Gates PSM has had a 40 year career in hydrogeology. He is the former Director of Water Management for the NSW Office of Water. George has extensive knowledge of the ...
Tim Gentle

Tim Gentle is a Principal Environmental Officer with the Office of the Environmental Protection Authority based in Perth, responsible for environmental impact assessment of major ...
Jacob George MSc

Jacob George, B.Sc. with a Hydrogeology Specialization and M.Eng candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering is the Training Specialist at Water Hydrogeologic. Hehas multiple ...
Dr Richard George PhD

Dr Richard George is a Principal Research Scientist in the DAFWA - NRM Science.He is responsible for the coordination and delivery of Land and Water research and leads Major Projects ...
Lindsay Gilbert

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Daniel Gomes

Daniel Gomes is a Principal Hydrogeologist and Numerical Modeler with 25 years of experience. Daniel was General Manager of Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc., a world leader and the development ...
Adrian Goodreid

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John Hadfield BSc, Dip App Sci, MPhil

John Hadfield (BSc, Dip. App. Sci. MPhil) has been working as a hydrogeologist (Groundwater Scientist) at Environment Waikato (Regional Council) for thirty years. Prior to that he ...
Sue Hamilton

Sue graduated from the UNSW in 1984 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) and later completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management from the Charles Sturt University. ...
Colin Hazel BE

Colin Hazel has nearly 50 years experience in Groundwater resource assessment, monitoring and management. He has worked on numerous water resource projects throughout Australia ...
Mr John Hillier

John Hillier has over 40 years experience working in the field of groundwater. He commenced work with the Queensland Irrigation and Water Supply Commission, and progressed through ...
Mr Gary Humphreys

Gary Humphreys is currently the Regional Manager of North West Western Australia, at the Department of Water since 2014.
Previously Gary started his career at ...
Ms Tracy Jin Cui MSc

Tracy Jin Cui is Training Coordinator at NGIS Australia looking after the training service development and delivery. Tracy consults and trains NGIS clients across health, environment, ...
Russell Jones M.S. P.E.

Russell D. Jones, M.S, P.E. Mr. Jones is the current development team leader of the SMS software package with over 10 years experience working on SMS. He is the primary developer ...
Dr Lange Jorstad PhD

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Saji Joseph

Saji Joseph is the Director of Strategic Water Programs for the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. Saji is accountable for developing strategic policies and ...
Dr Steven Joynes PhD

Steven has 26 years experience in developing, utilising and managing water modelling projects. Starting Hydraulic Modelling Services Ltd in 1992 this company has now serviced over ...
Dr Mike Kavanaugh PhD

Dr. Kavanaugh is a Senior Principal with Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., a 1200 person professional services firm specializing in environmental science, and environmental and geotechnical ...
Dr Bryce Kelly PhD

Associate Professor Bryce Kelly has over 27 years of experience in the fields of hydrogeology, 3D geological modelling, geostatistics, and geophysics. He has worked on a diverse ...
Prof Bernie Kueper Ph.D., P.Eng.

Dr. Kueper is a licensed professional engineer and an internationally recognized hydrogeologist with expertise in the area of soil and groundwater contamination by organic compounds ...
Dr Charles Lawrence PhD

Senior Lecturer in hydrogeology in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. He gained a doctorate in 1972 at Melbourne University for a regional study of the ...
Tony Laws BSc (Hons), MSc

Tony Laws has been involved in the water industry well over 40 years and has worked extensively in all states of Australia. He gained in Masters Degree in Hydrogeology from London ...
Mr Alan Lemon

Arc Hydro Groundwater Team Leader and member of the GMS development team and software engineer at Aquaveo. Alan has years of experience developing groundwater modeling software and ...
Laz Leonhard

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Adam Lillicrap

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Mrs Christa Loos MSc

Christa Loos began her career 16 years ago in local government as an Environmental Health Officer. She was involved in providing advice relating to public health, undertaking ...
Dr John Mahoney PhD

Dr John Mahoney has over 25 years of experience in geochemical consulting and in applying geochemical models to solving environmental problems. In addition to PHREEQC, Hydra/Meduas ...
Dr Mark Mayley PhD

Mark is a co-Director of Australian Wetlands, has a PhD in environmental engineering and completed his research through the CRC for Catchment Hydrology. Eager to implement his academic ...
Mr Chris McAuley

Chris McAuley is a senior hydrogeologist with over 20 years experience in groundwater resource management and contaminated land management in Australia and Europe. Having worked ...
Damian McCann

Damian is a co-Director of Australian Wetlands and is a wetland ecologist with over 15 years experience in the design, construction and management of wetland systems for a range ...
Ms Sandie McHugh BSc (hons) PhD

Sandie has worked as a hydrogeologist at the Department of Water for 6 years and is the manager of the Groundwater Review section. Sandie works with a group of Hydrogeologists who ...
Dr Noel Merrick PhD

Dr Noel Merrick has over 30 years experience working as a geophysicist, hydrogeologist, senior lecturer and Director of a Groundwater Centre. He is one of Australias leading ...
Hugh Middlemis MSc

Hugh Middlemis is Senior Principal at Aquaterra’s Adelaide office, responsible for leadership in groundwater modelling.
Hugh is a civil engineer with a masters degree in ...
Will Minchin

Will Minchin is a hydrogeologist and groundwater modeller with over 15 years’ consulting experience. He currently works for Watershed HydroGeo, based on the south coast of ...
Ms Emily Mulford

Ms. Mulford is currently the Training Manager at EarthSoft, Inc. and develops and provides onsite and online professional training programs for the suite of EQuIS software. She writes ...
Royd Nelson

Royd Nelson Mr. Nelson is Vice President of Aquaveo LLC and a licensed professional Engineer in the state of Utah. He is responsible for all consulting and modeling ...
Dr Gayle Newcombe M.App.Sci PhD

Gayle Newcombe is the Manager Customer Value & Water Quality Research in the Research unit of the South Australian Water Corporation (SA Water). SA Water is a government owned ...
Mr Chris Nichol

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Mr Chris O'Boy MSc

Chris O’Boy has a BSc (Hons) in Geology and Masters in Hydrogeology from Birmingham University. He has over 35 years experience in hydrogeology engaged on a broad range of ...
Dr Declan Page PhD

Dr Declan Page is the Team Leader for Groundwater Quality and Management for CSIRO in Adelaide ...
Dr Ben Petrides PhD

Ben has over 14 years’ experience in the environmental consulting industry advising major mining, oil and gas, government and private clients.
Ben provides high level groundwater ...
Mr Krey Price BEng (Hons), MEng

Krey Price spent 15 years as a consultant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including the modelling, design, construction, and inspection of levee systems, breakwaters, ...
Paul Raper

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Darren Ray

Darren Ray is the Senior Meteorologist and Manager for the South Australian Climate Section at the Bureau of Meteorology. Darren started with the Bureau of Meteorology in 2002 ...
Dr Dave Reynolds Ph.D., P.Eng

Dr. David Reynolds focuses on the development and implementation of effective remediation and management strategies for complex and challenging contaminated sites. David specializes ...
Kathryn Rozlapa BEng and MEng

Kathryn is a Consulting Groundwater Modeller/Hydrogeologist with AQ2 and has over 20 years of technical experience.
Kathryn has consulted to the resources sector on ...
James Rumbaugh

James Rumbaugh, hydrogeologist and groundwater modeler, has over 25 years of experience in application of groundwater models and in development of groundwater modeling software tools. ...
Dr Helen Rutter PhD

Dr Helen Rutter is a Senior Hydrogeologist and Business Manager (Water and Land) for Aqualinc Research Ltd, a NZ-based consultancy, where she has worked for the past 9 years. She ...
Dr Abouna Saghafi PhD

Dr Abouna Saghafiis a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Energy. He is the CSIRO research leader in the areas of unconventional gas (coal seam and shale gas) and gas ...
David Schafer

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Dr Christopher Smemoe PhD

WMS Development Team Leader, Aquaveo. Primary developer of the WMS software, Chris is an expert in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and floodplain mapping methods. He has been involved ...
Dr Garry Smith PhD

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Martin Stokes

Senior Project Officer
Natural Resources Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
studied in the field of Natural Resource ...
Dr Gill Strassberg PhD

Dr. Strassberg earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Water Resources Engineering. His specialty is integration of GIS and groundwater and he is the original ...
Bill Syme

Bill Syme has over 25 years experience in hydrodynamic modelling, flood management and software development. His consultancy experience includes numerous flood studies and ...
Dr Alan Teimoori PhD

As a senior petroleum engineer, Alan has 17 years of offshore/onshore experience in Oil & Gas industry. He has extensive experience in exploration and production of CSG assets ...
Peter Terrett

Peter Terrett has been a user of GPS for more than 26 years. He heads a company that has provided innovation to the spatial industry since 1991 in the development of software programs, ...
Dr Simon Toze PhD

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Prof Jim Underschultz PhD

With >25 years of experience, more than 50 publications on the subject, Jim has built a reputation in petroleum hydrogeology, unconventional hydrocarbons and carbon storage research. ...
Mr Alan Wade

Alan Wade is a hydrogeologist with 27 years of experience, 23 of which have been in consulting. He has worked in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and China as well as Australia. ...
Dr Xingjin Wang PhD

Xingjin Wang has more than 20 years of international experience in petroleum exploration and production applications. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University ...
Dr Mathew Weaver PhD

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Mr Julian Weir BE (hons), ME, CPEng, MIPENZ, IntPE (NZ)

Julian Weir is a senior engineer and team leader (Water and Land) with Aqualinc Research Ltd. Julian has worked at Aqualinc since it was established approximately 13 years ...
Dr Alan Zundel PhD

Dr. Zundel leads Aquaveo and was the original manager of the SMS under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Zundel has a long history of model development and ...