Director & Principal Environmental Consultant
BSc MEIANZ CEnvP
Ray is a Certified Environment Practitioner with EIANZ with over 25 years experience in Northern Australia. He has extensive experience in the NRM field, including pioneering innovative NRM based business development, especially for Indigenous Groups. He has environmental experience in the resources industry including baseline environmental investigations (soil, water and vegetation work, aquatic ecology and general flora and fauna surveys), as well as ongoing compliance and closure planning. Ray is a member of the NT Natural Resource Management Board.
General Manager
BSc GAICD FEIANZ
Jeff was originally trained as an ecologist and has over 25 years of professional experience in science, policy and land and water management positions in state and federal government and consultancy. Now as EcOz’s General Manager, Jeff oversees the EcOz machinery. Additionally, Jeff is also Project Director for EcOz’s largest jobs.
Managing Consultant - Ecology
BSc, LLB, Dip Arts (Envtl Studies), Grad Cert (Ornithology)
Glen is an environmental scientist who has worked around Australia in a range of capacities relating to NRM, and especially ornithology. His passion is birds, but the depth and diversity of his professional experiences gives him a range of consultancy skills. With EcOz since 2012, Glen has undertaken or led fauna surveys throughout the Top End at sites as diverse as Tiwi Islands, Finniss River, Noonamah, East Point, Pine Creek, East Arnhem Land and Katherine; as well as in Cape York, Central Australia, Mt Isa and the Kimberley. Glen is also an experienced project manager, having delivered several significant components of several large EIS projects. He has authored or contributed significantly to numerous Notices of Intent and EIS chapters.
Managing Consultant - Alice Springs
MSSc Bsc (Hons)
Tom is an ecologist with 15 years’ experience working in northern and Central Australia. He has a broad range of project experience in mining, development, scientific research, and government projects. He also has skills in water and soil quality monitoring, sediment and erosion control plans, and GIS mapping. After working in the Darwin office for 10 years, Tom has moved to Alice Springs to establish a local presence for delivering EcOz central Australian projects.
Lead Consultant - Water
BSc
Emma Lewis is an environmental scientist who grew up in Darwin before moving to QLD to study Environmental Science at Griffith University. She has 10 years’ experience working in remote QLD and the NT, for the construction industry, state and local government. She has experience working in waste management, environmental monitoring and assessment and environmental approvals. She has worked on a variety of projects including development and implementation of Waste Management Plans and Strategies, operational landfill and waste collection documentation, Environmental Protection Licence and Approvals documentation, and Environmental Management Plans. Specialty knowledge includes groundwater and surface water quality monitoring and reporting, environmental approvals, project management, project supervision and implementation, government reporting, and the development of environmental management plans and systems.
Lead Consultant – Ecology
BSc(Mar.Biol), BSc(Biol)
David is an ecologist who has spent over 20 years working in consulting, academia and government. He specializes in the application of technologies to assess biodiversity, evaluate habitat and monitor ecosystems. David has expertise in the use of a range of platforms and tools to monitor and understand the environment and has worked across the marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. David is adept at using a range of statistical analyses, machine learning approaches and data visualization tools to enable decision making from the robust, but often complex and large data that is can be captured using tool such as drones, remote camera traps and acoustic monitors.
David’s applied ecological experience spans monitoring ecosystem restoration, setting mine site closure criteria, conducting biodiversity assessments, studying feral animal behaviour and mapping ecosystems. He has interest in the role that natural capital, biodiversity and carbon markets can play in improving ecosystem management and conservation outcomes.