Meet the team
ERIAS’ Principals average more than 25 years’ experience through industry appointments and as consulting advisers with international energy and resource companies. Our Principals are supported by senior consultants with technical expertise in a range of disciplines including terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecology, social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, environmental chemistry, land management, oceanography, spatial data analysis (GIS) and closure landform modelling.
David Browne
Managing Director
David has over 30 years of experience in the mining, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure and agricultural industries, which includes environmental and social impact assessments, closure plans, the management of potential acid-forming waste rock and tailings, community consultation and operations management.
David has worked on resource and energy development projects in most Australian states and territories, and elsewhere in Asia-Pacific (New Zealand, China, Indonesia) and Africa (Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Ghana), and has held Environment Manager positions with Pasminco, Normandy Mining, Newmont Mining and Origin Energy. Prior to ERIAS, David was General Manager ESIA (South Australia/Northern Territory) and then CEO of the environment and social performance service line in a large consulting firm.
Michael Wright
Director
Michael has over 25 years consulting and industry experience in environmental and social permitting studies, environmental management, auditing, due diligence and project management for the mining, power generation and oil & gas industries. Michael has worked in Australia, the Asia-Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Indonesia, Laos, Fiji and New Caledonia), Africa (Tanzania, Egypt and Côte d’Ivoire), United Kingdom and the Americas (USA and Mexico). Michael has held industry positions with resource companies and was previously Papua New Guinea Manager for a large consulting firm.
Casey Mortlock
Finance Manager
Casey has over 20 years experience in accounting and office administration working in a variety of industries from mining, consulting and financial services. This experience includes establishment of financial systems, monthly invoicing and reconciliation, management of payroll, monthly financial statement preparation including profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow projections, monthly results analysis and preparation of BAS/IAS returns.
Kirsten Broadgate
Principal
Kirsten is an IBERA Diplomate certified by the International Board of Environmental Risk Assessors with over 25 years of experience in ecotoxicology and ecological risk assessment. She designs and delivers assessments for licensing, approvals, clean-up, and remediation for clients in the resource, land development, manufacturing, and government sectors. She is experienced in the measurement and prediction of ecological exposure and effect, and in deriving site-specific and national guidelines for ecological protection.
Julie Crawford
Principal
Julie is a highly skilled and motivated professional with extensive resource industry experience across multiple commodities leading remote teams to deliver environment, health, safety, and community functional excellence. Experience extends to leading emergency response services, multiple environmental and research projects with expertise to identify, analyse and solution design for complex issues and work environments.
Luci David
Principal
Rebecca Lumley
Principal
Rebecca is Principal Consultant with over 18 years experience seeking and managing project approvals in the oil and gas, energy, infrastructure and government sectors. Rebecca has experience in working internationally (Australia, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Albania, Greece, Cyprus and Israel) and has successfully managed cross-functional teams located in Italy, Spain, Albania, Greece and Kazakhstan. She has experience across the project life cycle from early design and permitting through to construction and reinstatement, with demonstrated ability to undertake site selection, constraints analysis, environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA), permitting, environmental management plans, pre-construction constraints analysis and reporting and site-based supervision. Rebecca has a proven ability in innovating solutions to onsite environmental challenges, and within consideration of costs and time implications.
Clark Monahan
Principal
Clark is an aquatic scientist and chemist with over 20 years’ experience in environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA), particularly the assessment and management of impacts from greenfield resource projects in tropical, high-rainfall environments. Clark has worked on over 40 projects in all Australian states and nine other countries (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Lao PDR, New Caledonia, Central America, Indonesia, Ghana, Guinea and Greenland).
Clark has extensive experience managing, conducting and reviewing environmental studies and investigations to meet international standards, and is experienced in the assessment of sediment transport in riverine and marine systems; freshwater, coastal and marine chemistry; and freshwater and marine ecology, particularly assessing risks due to exposure to contaminants.
Jayne Rutter
Principal
Jacinta Hinks
Associate
Nick Thyer
Associate
Nick Thyer is an Associate and Team Lead of Marine and Freshwater Science and Ecological Risk Assessment, with over 12 years of experience in environmental consulting and ecological research. He has led multidisciplinary teams and projects across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, specialising in the design and delivery of ecological, surface water and sediment investigations in marine and freshwater environments. He has a strong foundation in developing scientifically defensible survey designs and implementing digital data capture workflows that enable the efficient collection of robust datasets to inform ecological risk and impact assessment.
Mitch Goodin
Senior Consultant
Andrew Todd-Weckmann
Senior Consultant
Andrew is an environmental scientist with a background in ecology. Andrew has experience planning, managing, and executing field surveys both in Australia and Papau New Guinea for a diverse range of clients. Andrew has extensive field experience conducting pre-construction surveys for oil, gas, and infrastructure projects with a focus on recording ecological datasets. Andrew has an interest in site rehabilitation and conservation projects, with experience developing a rehabilitation nursery for Total Energies in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea.
