Meet the panel
Chair
Hon. Justice Rachel Pepper
Panelists
Professor Barry Hart AM
Areas of specialisation include:
- water resource decision making
- environmental flows
- ecological risk assessment
- natural resource management
- water quality management
- environmental chemistry
- biogeochemical cycling of elements.
Dr David Jones
Areas of specialisation include:
- environmental geochemistry
- assessment and management of water quality issues across the energy (coal and coal seam gas) and gold and base mining sectors.
Dr Ross Smith
Areas of specialisation include:
- hydraulic fracturing fluid ecotoxicology
- aquatic ecosystems
- freshwater/marine community ecology
- water quality
- resource industry impacts.
Professor Brian Priestly
Areas of specialisation include:
- environmental health risk assessment
- human health risk assessment and regulatory control of hazardous chemicals.
Dr Alan Andersen
Areas of specialisation include:
- terrestrial ecology
- global ecology of ant communities
- fire ecology and management
- indigenous engagement.
Dr Vaughan Beck AM
Areas of specialisation include:
- risk engineering
- unconventional gas production
- fire engineering
- wind engineering
- building technology.
Professor Peta Ashworth
Areas of specialisation include:
- developing, leading and managing large interdisciplinary teams of technical and socio-economic dimensions
- social science
- sustainable energy future.
Dr David Ritchie
Areas of specialisation include:
- cultural history and engagement
- natural resource management
- public policy
- governance
- risk assessment
- organisational development
- community engagement.