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Christopher has 37 years of experience in environmental, health & safety and remedial engineering projects. He worked for 22 years as a consultant in the USA specialising in contaminated site investigation, remedial options assessment and remediation oversight for contaminated land, water and sediment projects. Following his arrival to New Zealand in 2008, he served for over 5 years as a Principal Scientist on the Environment Canterbury Contaminated Land Team. Since then he has been a Co-Director and Owner of Sephira Environmental Limited.

Jay Gaul completed his University degree in the United states before relocating to Australia approximately 18 years ago.  Working with Ventia for the past 9 years Jay has delivered highly complex remediation projects in NSW and NT ranging from gasworks and asbestos impacted sites to immobilization of impacted subaqueous sediments and consolidation of uranium tailings.

Liam Spurr is an Associate Environmental Consultant at Jacobs based in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Liam's career has taken him across Australia over the past 10 years, initially working with GHD on some of Melbourne's most complex infrastructure projects as a hydrogeologist and engineering geologist. Later, Liam made the move up to the NT where the contaminated land industry took its hold, leading Liam to manage several contamination investigation and remediation projects over the past 6 years.

Liam joined Jacobs in 2021, joining a global team of PFAS experts in the delivery of two key programs of work for the federal government. Through these key client relationships, Liam and Jacobs were engaged to deliver not one, but two critical emergency response remediation projects in the Northern Territory over the past couple of years.

Liam enjoys the great outdoors both for recreation and for work-related travels as they arise. Liam loves his Top End footy at the Waratah Football Club and always takes the chance to enjoy a tropical Darwin sunset with friends and family.

Lindsay Killin has over 18 years of experience in remediation contracting. He started as a site engineer at Enviropacific, moved into project management, and is currently the Regional Manager for the NSW/ACT remediation business.

Over the course of his career, Lindsay has managed countless remediation projects, from relatively straightforward, through to highly complex projects in soil and water treatment. For the Truegain project, he provided senior level oversight for tendering, project planning, execution, client and regulator communications and coordination.

Lindsay is passionate about workplace safety and is the Chair of Enviropacific’s Safety Steering Committee, guiding teams to ensure appropriate safety measures are in place for all projects.

Peter Graham is Executive Director of the Environmental Management Group within Property and Development NSW and Chief Executive of Waste Assets Management Corporation (WAMC) with over 25 years of experience in managing and remediating contaminated land. The Environmental Management Group and WAMC (a team of over 40 scientists, engineers and earthworks contractors) form a centralized government agency for managing and remediating highly complex legacy contaminated land, with projects generally including a high degree of public scrutiny and media coverage (https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/property-and-development-nsw/what-we-do/contaminated-land-management). Prior to joining NSW Government Peter worked as a contaminated land consultant in the private sector for companies such as KPMG, GHD and Environmental Earth Sciences and also spent three years working in the academic sector, managing a climate change research station for UNSW. Peter has an undergraduate degree in soil science and geology with honours in metalliferous economic geology, masters in hydrogeology (groundwater modelling) and a PhD in organic chemistry in hydrogeological settings.

Scott Burrows is a senior manager of Environmental Management Group within Property and Development NSW and has over 15 year of industry experience as a consultant and project manager. Scott has worked for EMG since 2019 and has been involved in numerous remediation projects including former industrial sites, gasworks, landfills and radiological sites for the NSW Government.

Tom is a contaminated land specialist based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was previously the Team Leader at Sephira Environmental, who designed and undertook the site investigation at the Awaroa/Godley Head Heritage Site. Tom is currently the Environmental Manager for Protranz Earthmoving, the remediation contractor at the Heritage Site.