KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Amy is the Principal Archaeologist and Branch Manager for New Zealand Heritage Properties in Invercargill, working closely with clients across public and private property infrastructure and redevelopment projects. Amy has over 20 years’ experience in archaeology and has an extensive understanding of the legislative requirements for archaeology in Aotearoa, as well as having a special interest in managing archaeological material across disciplines and cultural perspectives.
Amy McStay
Branch Manager/Principal Archaeologist,New Zealand Heritage Properties
Erika is a Principal Environmental Engineer with ENGEO. She has 20 years of technical and project management experience gained while working on projects in New Zealand and the United States. Erika specialises in the assessment, remediation and management of contaminated land and groundwater.
Erika McDonald
Principal Environmental Engineer, ENGEOJodi Halleux is a Senior Consultant at e3Scientific Limited in Invercargill, focusing on contaminated land investigation and management. Jodi has 16 years of experience working in local government resource management compliance and private sector consulting to developers, land owners and local authorities on contaminated land. She has a strong interest in local history as it applies to sensitive management of HAIL sites in Aotearoa.
Jodi Halleux
Senior Environmental Consultant, e3ScientificLisa is a Principal Geo-Environmental Consultant with over 25 years’ experience of undertaking contaminated land assessments; designing and supervising site investigations, reclamation and remediation projects. She has worked in the fields of contaminated land, geotechnics, and engineering geology across both the UK and New Zealand. For the past 11 years she has been based in Central Otago and leads the national team of contaminated land specialists in the regional business of WSP.
Lisa Bond
Work Group Manager - Environment & Planning,WSP New Zealand
Paul Nathanail, LQM
Paul Nathanail
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Mike was a late starter in academia, he first attended university in in his early thirties at Massey Palmerston North where he received a BSc, MSc and PhD in Ecology and then began lecturing there in ecology and environmental science in 2003. Mike has developed bioassessment tools used by many Regional Councils and consultants and has published scientific papers in many fields from artificial intelligence and data mining, freshwater fish ecology, freshwater bioassessment to the freshwater ecology of sub-Antarctic islands.
Mike Joy
Senior Researcher, Institute for Governanceand Policy Studies, Victoria University
Geoff Cooper has a background in global policy having worked for the United Nations, the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve. He is a former Chief Economist for Auckland Council, where he worked on infrastructure, housing, regulation and financial policy. More recently, as Chief Economist at PwC, Geoff has contributed to the economic appraisal of a range of large infrastructure projects, including Wellington’s Let’s Get Wellington Moving programme, Auckland Light Rail, Hamilton to Auckland High Speed Rail and Queenstown’s Way to Go programme. Geoff holds a Master of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland and a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University.
Geoff Cooper
General Manager, Strategy - New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te WaihangaSPEAKERS
Andrea Tuohy has worked at T+T as an environmental scientist for seven years. Her background includes study at Victoria University of Wellington and University of Canterbury in geology and environmental geochemistry. Her PhD looked at reconstructing changes in heavy metals over the last 2000 years from an Antarctic ice core, and atmospheric transport and depositional processes. Lately, she has worked on projects in a variety of areas including contaminated land, landfill environmental management, and climate change risk assessments.
Andrea Tuohy
Environmental Scientist, Tonkin + TaylorAnna is a Principal Environmental Consultant and Otautahi Regional manager with 4Sight Consulting and has been a contaminated land and groundwater professional for over 25 years. She has a broad range of environmental experience, including contaminated land and groundwater assessment and remediation, technical peer review, and risk assessment.
Anna Lukey
Christchurch Regional Manager, PrincipalEnvironmental Consultant, 4Sight Consulting -
Part of SLR
Aslan is an established hydrogeologist with over 13 years’ experience working on large-scale mining, tailings, civil construction, and water resource focused projects. He has specialist groundwater qualifications and skills; including 3D & 2D numerical flow and contaminant/solute transport modelling. Aslan has a successful track record as a technical advisor, expert witness, reviewer, and project manager for groundwater aspects of complex multi-disciplinary consenting and construction projects.
Aslan Perwick
Service Leader – Groundwater, Pattle DelamorePartners
Brendon is a Certified Environmental Practitioner – Site Contamination with over 30 years’ experience in contaminated site investigation and remediation. He is a Director of HAIL Environmental Ltd and is currently based in Tauranga. He is an advocate for in-situ remediation techniques and sustainable management approaches for contaminated land that demonstrate a net environmental and human health benefit. In recent years. He has won several industry awards, including for New Zealand’s largest remediation project, the $21M Kopeopeo Canal project in Whakatāne.
Brendon Love
Contaminated Site Specialist, CEnvP-SC,Director, HAIL Environmental
Erin Richards is a Technical Director at Pattle Delamore Partners, with over 20 years’ experience in contaminated land assessments. Over the course of her career, she has worked on hundreds of petroleum sites across the country, which has included conducting soil-gas and indoor air assessments and conducting Tier 2 risk assessments to evaluate the inhalation pathway.
Erin Richards
Technical Director – Contaminated Land, PattleDelamore Partners
Gus Martins is a Business Manager with HUESKER Australia. He has over 10 years of experience in A wide range of infrastructure projects including environmental and hydraulic areas. Qualified as a Civil engineer and experienced in the development of geosynthetic products to meet market and client needs, Gus also has experience managing interfaces between clients, suppliers, and engineers, understanding technical requirements, qualification processes and manufacturing techniques.
Gus Martins
Business Manager, Huesker AustraliaHollie has a Bachelor of Environmental Management and Planning from Lincoln University and started work in the environmental industry in 2015, specialising in soil contamination work since 2016. Hollie has a passion for remediation work and can often be found bossing a digger operator around, XRF in hand. Hollie is certified via CEnvP (general) certification.
Hollie Griffith
Senior Environmental Scientist, Momentum EnvironmentalIsobel has been navigating a career in Local Government, Public Health and the regulatory sector in particular, for 33 years and still hasn’t had any time off for good behaviour. This may be because she tends to live the adage that if you can’t be good, be careful! She brings a very broad perspective on risk to the conference from the risk to public health, to the risks of public perception and legal liability.
Isobel Stout
Senior Environmental Health Officer,Christchurch City Council
Kapish is a technology commercialisation specialist in the environmental sector, with projects spanning Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America. He is positioned at the interface between high quality research and industrial application. Kapish's current and past projects have focused on the implementation of innovative systems for hazardous wastes and waste-to-value initiatives.
Kapish Gobindlal
Director, Chief Scientist, EnvironmentalDecontamination (NZ) Limited
Kate Murray is a Senior Associate Environmental Consultant for Jacobs New Zealand and is based out of the Christchurch office. Kate is relatively new to the contaminated land industry in New Zealand with three of her 18 years of industry experience based out of New Zealand, her former 15 years’ experience being centered on industrial waste management and general environmental compliance in South Africa.
Kate Murray
Associate Environmental Consultant –Contaminated Land, Jacobs
Marcus is a Technical Director - Site Contamination at RILEY. He has 25 years’ experience in the contaminated land and closed landfills risk assessment and remediation sector, working for national and local government and the private sector. He has been actively involved in the development and implementation of NZ contaminated land legislation, in particular the National Environmental Standard and Auckland Unitary Plan. Marcus is a founding member of ALGA NZ, and currently sits on the Auckland Branch and Risk Assessment Interest Group steering committees.
Marcus Herrmann
Technical Director – Site Contamination, RILEY ConsultantsMartin Robertson has over 30 years’ experience in contaminated land management and investigation. He spent 12 years as a consultant and the balance in the Petroleum Industry. He is a CEnvP Site Contamination Specialist.
Martin Robertson
Environmental Manager, Z Energy
Michael is an Environmental Scientist with experience managing contaminated land, water and air. Additional experience in both the Geotechnical and Hydrogeological project fields. He has a Master of Science in Environmental Management from Otago University (2022).
Michael Knopick
ENGEO
Nerena is a Technical Director in PDP's contaminated land team. Nerena's experience includes the investigation and management of discharges from contaminated sites associated with construction, industrial and military activities and historic land use. She has significant experience in the investigation and management of PFAS discharges to a variety of media including ground, water and aquatic biota.
Nerena Rhodes
Technical Director – Contaminated Land, PattleDelamore Partners
Nicola Peacock has been involved in the environmental engineering industry for 29 years, within the stormwater field in early years, and practicing in the contaminated land field for the last thirteen years. Nicola runs her own company, Momentum Environmental Ltd, and has specific interest in the most prevalent contaminants of lead and arsenic, which has often led to curly questions about what, why and how we should deal with the risks associated with these contaminants. Nicola is a Certified Environmental Practitioner.
Nicola peacock
Momentum EnvironmentalNigel is a dedicated environmental professional with 20 years’ experience and a strong focus on delivering high quality and pragmatic advice to clients. Nigel is adept at identifying and quantifying environmental risk and balancing these risks within a commercial setting. Nigel's experience includes contaminated land assessment and remediation, environmental due diligence, and risk assessment (transactional and advisory services), and HSE management systems implementation and auditing.
Nigel Mather
Principal Land and Water Quality Consultant,4Sight Consulting - Part of SLR
Paula Stevenson is an Environmental Scientist for Jacobs New Zealand and is based out of the Auckland office. Paula has three and a half years’ experience within the contaminated land and groundwater space working across infrastructure, transport, and private sector projects in both New Zealand and Australia.
Paula Stevenson
Environmental Scientist, JacobsRod Lidgard is a Certified Environmental Practitioner – Site Contamination specialist, father of two, and an innovative thinker. He has comprehensive experience in the contaminated land management environments that NZ offers, and a strong interest in sustainability. Rod wants to drive improvement in 'complete' contaminated site management to achieve whole-of-life sustainable outcomes in our industry.
Rod Lidgard
Pattle Delamore PartnersSamantha is a Senior Environmental Consultant at 4Sight Consulting. She is experienced in both the regulatory and consulting sectors of contaminated land and groundwater management
Samantha Iles
Senior Environmental Consultant, 4SightConsulting - Part of SLR
Sari considers herself to be a Kaipūtaiao o te Whenua, and Senior Environmental Chemist with over 15 years’ experience working with contaminated land (including groundwater) across New Zealand and Australia
Sari Eru
Principal Scientist, EINZStanley supports the ANZ contaminated land practice at Jacobs. He has spent considerable time on both sides of the Tasman, and in his current day-to-day role he is fortunate to maintain a foot in both the east and west islands. Originally hailing from the US, Stanley offers a unique perspective on international best-practice. In his spare time, Stanley enjoys working through a bottomless chore-and-project list with his family at their home in semi-rural Waikato
Stanley Howell
Consultant, JacobsSusie Humphrey is an Environmental Scientist and Contaminated Land Service Leader at PDP in Tauranga. She has over 12 years’ experience in undertaking environmental and contaminated land assessments in New Zealand and the South Pacific. Susie is a Certified Environmental Practitioner with a keen interest in steering the contaminated land industry towards a more sustainably focused future
Susie Humphrey
Service Leader – Contaminated Land, PattleDelamore Partners
Tim is the National Environmental Solutions Manger at Fulton Hogan, a Chartered Chemist and the current Chair of the Wasteminz Contaminated Land Management Sector Group Steering Committee. Tim has been involved in the contaminated land discipline for over 15 years, here in New Zealand and across Europe. Tim’s primary focus is on adapting international remedial techniques to the New Zealand market. National Environmental Solutions Manager, Fulton Hogan
Tim Dee
National Environmental Solutions Manager,Fulton Hogan
Tim Muller is an environmental chemist, science communicator and data nerd from Landpro based in Central Otago. He is a CEnvP, an LAA and a GSOH. He has about a dozen years of experience finding real solutions to real problems in the fields of contaminated land, hydrogeology, water quality and environmental data science
Tim Muller
Environmental Scientist, LandproTom is an environmental geologist with 4 years of experience, specialising in contaminated land investigations. As an environmental Geologist, Tom has been involved in numerous contaminated site investigations around the North Island. He has practical experience in a wide variety of contaminated land assessment techniques, including general contaminated site sampling (soil, water, gas, sediment), baseline sampling, delineation sampling and site validation sampling
Tom Harvey
Environmental Geologist, Pattle DelamorePartners