Meet the Team

  • Charmaine has over 19 years of experience as a project administrator with a focus on allied health, human resources, education and research. She has worked predominantly for the Queensland Government across Health, Transport and Main Roads, managing projects and creating departmental policies and processes for use across the state. Her longest held position was with the Allied Health Professions’ Office of Queensland where she coordinated the research and student clinical education and training portfolios. She has also worked in the private sector for several years as a HR Manager.

    Charmaine’s professional skills include business administration, project management, data management, finance and human resources coordination, event organisation and coding.

    Charmaine has a Bachelor of Behavioural Science from Griffith University and is currently trying to ascertain whether she can have a co-doctorate from the work she has done to support Neil’s PhD.

    Charmaine is the primary business contact for any proposal requests.

  • Neil is a Principal Groundwater Modeller/Hydrogeologist with expertise in groundwater modelling and hydrogeological assessments. He has over 17 years of experience in these fields and has worked on coal, water supply, and metals projects in Australia and abroad. Neil possesses extensive knowledge of MODFLOW and has expanded his skills to include all aspects of environmental approvals for the resource sector. He has a sound knowledge of data-assimilation, predictive uncertainty analysis, and optimisation under uncertainty.

    Neil has extensive experience in contaminant transport modelling, including particle tracking and advective non-linear transport simulations using MFUSG and MF6. He has applied his expertise to modelling the migration of PFAS, PFOA, and BTEX for high-profile projects in Queensland. Additionally, Neil has served as an independent third-party peer reviewer for approval projects that simulate landfill, open-cut, and underground mining that focus on the migration of contaminants. Recently, Neil has also served as a peer reviewer for the international scientific journal Groundwater.

    Neil contributed to the ‘Review of current approaches to model residual mine voids for rehabilitation planning’ for the Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner. He also was the main author for the ‘BHP Coal Groundwater Modelling Strategy’ document and is an active contributor to the Groundwater Modelling Decision Support Initiative (GMDSI).