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Brian is an Environmental Specialist/Scientist with over 22 years’ experience in industry and consulting roles in Australia and the UK. This experience has been principally within the field of contaminated land project management, environmental management, compliance, systems management, auditing, monitoring, investigation, remediation, legislation and policies/systems. Brian’s career has spanned a stint as an environmental driller, managing portfolios of downstream petroleum sites, providing technical advice as a subject matter expert for high-profile infrastructure projects and, more recently, managing a national Contaminated Land Assessment & Remediation team for a large engineering consultancy. He is currently the Queensland Environment Manager at ADE Consulting Group.

Brian would like to assure all early career professionals that experienced practitioners dislike timesheets just as much as juniors!

Leah is an environmental scientist at Okane Consultants, working predominantly in the geochemistry team. She has experience in environmental management, assessment, and regulation and has worked in contaminated land consulting and government in both environmental compliance and contaminated sites. She holds a Master of Hydrogeology and has over five years’ experience in conducting field programs, environmental sampling, technical reporting and assessing environmental risk.

Sarah is an Environmental Scientist at RARE Environmental, with 4 years' experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science (BoS) in Environmental Studies and Biology and has worked in customer service in a Food & Pharmaceutical and an Environmental laboratory prior to joining the Compliance Team at RARE. With RARE, she has been involved in managing environmental compliance for Critical State Significant projects such as the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal Development and Heathcote Road Upgrade. Currently, she is project managing the construction of koala crossings in Appin as well as conducting routine compliance monitoring for sites across Sydney such as Sydney Olympic Park, Great River City Light Rail and Barangaroo.

Dr Tamie Weaver is a Technical Fellow and Partner within ERM based in Melbourne and has over 35 years’ experience as a hydrogeologist. She has provided hydrogeological advice and technical leadership in site investigations involving the assessment of aquifer systems, interactions between groundwater and surface water, and the fate and transport of metals, salts, petroleum hydrocarbons, PFAS, chlorinated solvents and radionuclides in groundwater at operating and closed mines, power stations, and industrial facilities. 

For over a decade Tamie was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and professional short courses in hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry and conducting groundwater research.  She coordinated the Masters hydrogeology program and has supervised over 60 honours and postgraduate students in hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry and solute transport.