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Andrew is an environmental chemist with over 25 years of experience in contaminated land assessments, including the evaluation of the fate and ecological impacts of metals and organic compounds in the environment. Andrew’s expertise includes assessing the ecological effects of chemical exposures, environmental fate and transport modelling and using environmental forensic techniques to identify the source of contaminants. Andrew has undertaken environmental impacts of historical mine sites within the Coromandel for over 15 years. These sites have included the Tui Mine, Moanataiari subdivision, Monowai and Zeehan mines in the Waiomu Valley, Maratoto mine, Broken Hill mines, Puhipuhi Mercury Mine and has undertaken sediment quality studies within the Firth of the Thames and Coromandel Harbours to understand the impact of historical mining. Andrew has also developed site-specific guidelines for protecting human health at historic mine sites and conducted a desktop review of historical mining activities in the Coromandel.

Jo is a Principal Environmental Consultant with over twenty years' experience working in the waste and contaminated land sectors with Tonkin + Taylor. Her areas of expertise include investigation, consenting and reporting on closed landfills and contaminated sites, and management of landfill gas issues at both closed and operational landfills. Jo was the project manager for the detailed site investigation that was completed for the suburb of Moanataiari in 2012.

Dr Dave Bull loves soil and hates waste. He was trained as a chemist but eventually escaped into the wild. He is a director of boutique site contamination specialist consultancy HAIL Environmental and on the board of the Waste Management Institute New Zealand. Dave has a lot of opinions about contaminated land theory and regulation, naturally occurring 'contaminants', and technical details like the bioavailability of arsenic and which way round to hold an XRF.

Simon has over 35 years of experience in international contaminated land management. He holds a BSc Hons and MSc from the UK, is a Chartered Geologist and Certified Environmental Practitioner-Contaminated Site Specialist. He has worked on contaminated land risk and communication-related issues since the late 1980s. He worked on the Moanataiari project from early 2012 onwards for TCDC (while at Golder Associates), which included negotiating the use of bio-availability testing for the human health risk assessment work and contaminated land management across the subdivision.

Since the mid-1990s, Simon has been involved in writing NZ contaminated land guidance and policy. He helped establish the CEnvP-SCS and was previously an ALGA Board member, as well as an ALGA Life Member. He is currently assisting ALGA (along with others) in preparing a New Zealand QA/QC handbook for contaminated site work.