EXPERIENCE
Experience
More than 25 years of work across environmental science, assessment and advice, for governments, partnerships, utilities and development programs. The examples below give a sense of the range rather than a complete list.
Safeguards and environmental assessment
Helping programs and projects identify environmental and social risks early, and manage them in proportion to what is at stake.
REnew Pacific
Lead environmental advisor. Revised the program’s Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework, designed its cross-country grievance redress mechanism, led its annual safeguards policy review, and assesses grant proposals and partner management plans for compliance across numerous Pacific Island countries.
Mercury risk in offshore decommissioning
Member of a national team assessing mercury risks associated with decommissioning offshore oil and gas infrastructure.
Green hydrogen developments
Preliminary environmental and social impact assessments for proposed green hydrogen developments.
Environmental impact statement review
Technical review and advice on environmental impact statements assessed by the Queensland Government.
Environmental monitoring and approvals
Led a team of 12 water scientists delivering monitoring and approvals for water, energy, ports, resources and defence clients, including a desalination plant, port and LNG developments and a new dam.
Climate risk and resilience
Assessing how a changing climate affects infrastructure over its working life, and what can be done about it in design.
Climate change risk assessments for water and transport infrastructure
Led assessments for wastewater treatment upgrades, bulk water pipelines and road upgrades, applying ISO 31000 and AS 5334 with climate projections for the 2050s and 2090s. Each assessment was built through risk workshops with the design teams, with the results carried into adaptation measures for design.
Sustainability assessments for business cases
Sustainability and environmental assessments to support detailed business cases for water infrastructure.
Governance and independent advice
Supporting partnerships, panels and agencies to make sound decisions, and to check how well their arrangements are working.
Wet Tropics Waterways Partnership
Leading collaborative decision-making among government, industry and community members to improve waterway health in the Wet Tropics.
Australian Water Partnership
Independent technical advice on water resource management, climate resilience and safeguards for programs across the Indo-Pacific.
Reef Regional Partnerships
Assessed the organisational health of the regional partnerships through the What’s our Grade? report cards.
Science Committee Review
Review of the Science Committee for Healthy Land and Water.
Chesapeake Bay Program
Independent scientific and technical advice to the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership on monitoring, modelling and restoration.
Condition assessment and reporting
Designing report cards and condition assessments that turn monitoring data into a clear picture people can act on.
Report card libraryDarwin Harbour Integrated Report Cards
Worked with stakeholders to assess the environmental, Indigenous-cultural, social and economic health of Darwin Harbour.
Healthy Rivers for All
Led a partnership with local WWF teams developing river basin report cards in the USA, the Philippines, Zambia, Colombia, India, Mongolia and China.
Natural Resource Condition Assessments
Managed delivery of six condition assessments for national parks.
Chishui River Report Card
Designed and delivered a basin health report card for the Chishui River.
Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards
Lead author of a guide now used internationally as a reference for basin report cards.
Sustainability reporting
Designed and wrote annual sustainability reports.
Water quality science
The scientific foundation for much of the other work. Monitoring design, water and sediment quality, and ecotoxicology.
Expert witness
Expert witness on water quality and ecotoxicology in multiple environmental harm prosecutions.
Estuarine and Marine Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program
Managed the program and reported its findings to government and partners.
Contaminants in waterways
Research on antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals moving from wastewater into waterways, supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project.
Training and facilitation
Workshops, courses and plain-language writing that help practitioners and decision-makers work with complex information. Simon has designed and facilitated more than 100 workshops across 15 countries, for governments, development programs, research institutions and community partnerships.
Mekong Delta Management course
Designed and delivered a training course on managing the Mekong Delta.
Climate Change Research Activities Synthesis
Organised and facilitated eight stakeholder workshops across US eco-regions and produced the summary reports.
Waterway Health Report Cards: An Australian Perspective
A review of waterway health report card programs in Australia.
Marine bioindicators course
Developed and delivered a training course on marine bioindicators.