About
Amanda Lee is a multi-disciplinary professional with over 27 years of experience in the contaminated land industry. Amanda is a highly motivated and resourceful individual who provides practical and pragmatic solutions to complex issues. She has a proven track record of delivering programs on time, within scope, and meeting or exceeding client expectations.
Amanda has worked within a number of teams and has provided leadership, training and mentoring to a range of technically diverse individuals, helping both the teams and individuals within them achieve success. Amanda has over 20 years of experience in delivering Human Health Risk Assessments and Human Health Impact Assessments for a diverse range of sectors and clients.
Amanda is an accredited New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland Contaminated Land Auditor appointed by the respective Environment Protection Authority. She is also accredited by National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) as an assessor for chemical testing.
Ben Hunter has 15 years of experience in environmental consulting and remediation, Ben is driven by a passion for solving the complex challenges that site remediation poses. His extensive experience spans complex groundwater remediation projects to large-scale bulk earthworks programs, serving a diverse array of clients.
Ben has demonstrated significant expertise in addressing both legacy and emerging contaminants, Ben has spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives, including Australia’s first successful large-scale soil stabilisation remediation program for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Currently, he provides strategic and technical guidance to Airservices Australia, contributing to their nationwide PFAS remediation efforts.
Ben has also planned and executed bio-remediation projects that achieved full auditor approval, showcasing his ability to deliver impactful, compliant solutions. Ben’s expertise is frequently sought out for his hands-on approach, technical acumen, and exceptional skills in stakeholder engagement and management.
Gemma Williams is a human health and ecological risk specialist with over 16 years of experience in the contaminated land industry. Gemma’s early career was focused on modelling risks to human health from the presence of contamination in the environment, however more recently Gemma’s focus has included the assessment of ecological risk and providing expert human health and ecological risk support to contaminated land auditors across Australia.
After completing her PhD in environmental toxicology, which involved investigating arsenic bioaccumulation, speciation and toxicity in freshwater crayfish in the Victorian Goldfields region, Gemma was able to combine her passion for biology and ecology to complete ecological risk assessments for a range of sites. Gemma’s ecological risk approach holistically considers the environmental setting, site and client objectives and the overall net environmental benefit of the approach to managing environmental risks.
Early in her career Gemma worked in the United States and gained valuable experience in modelling food web risks associated with metals and bioaccumulative toxicants. Gemma has been able to bring this knowledge to a number of complex ecological risk assessments in the Australian context, and has developed innovative approaches to assessing chemical exposure risks in highly sensitive environments.
Gemma excels at thinking outside the box, and developing bespoke solutions to support her clients in achieving best for project outcomes.
Jacinta McInnes has a doctorate in Applied Chemistry and over 13 years in consultancy experience relating to human health and ecological risk assessment, human health impact assessment, contaminated land and groundwater assessment. In addition, Jacinta has been active in the role of Contaminated Land Auditor Assistant across numerous industrial, residential and commercial sites in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Northern Territory.
Jacinta has worked on a large number of human health assessments, including human health impact assessments as part of the EIS process in response to SEARs and TORs, as well as human health and ecological risk assessments for a wide range of contaminated sites including former gasworks, petroleum, gas fields, landfills, proposed development sites and impacted harbours and waterways.
Jacinta has a strong academic focus and research background and is concurrently engaged as a sessional academic at RMIT University. In this role, Jacinta is part of a teaching team in The School of Science and is able to provide mentorship to new graduates entering the environmental sector. Jacinta is highly motivated, has a passion for continual learning and has a wide range of experience in communicating technical content to a variety of audiences.
Ava Bebbington is a graduate environmental engineer specialising in contaminated land and groundwater. She recently graduated from her masters degree where she focused on permafrost thaw and its effects on contaminant transport in the Arctic.
Ava is developing skills in contaminated land data interpretation and validation for Auditor support in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Ava is highly proficient at managing and interpreting data from large complex data sets.
Ava has strong analytical skills and attention to detail, and is dedicated to delivering high quality work. Throughout her research and work she has demonstrated that she conducts research and literature reviews with ease.
Ava supports the SAGE team across project management, planning and delivery
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