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.