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Dr Noel Merrick
SENIOR PRINCIPAL HYDROGEOLOGIST
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PhD, MSc, BSc, GradDip
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Noel is a groundwater modeller, hydrogeologist and geophysicist with over 40 years' experience in groundwater management issues and policies. He retired in 2009 as an Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he was Director of the National Centre for Groundwater Management and ran courses in Groundwater Modelling, Groundwater Geophysics and Groundwater Policy and Management. Since then, Noel is in demand as a modeller, peer reviewer and mentor on many groundwater assessments and modelling studies.
As a researcher, he pioneered methods for resource sustainability quantification and management, particularly using optimisation techniques, and has been engaged in research projects with the Aquaculture, Rice, Cotton and Contaminant CRCs. He led the development of HotSpots, the software that is being used by the NSW government to facilitate groundwater trading. As a consultant, he has undertaken many environmental impact studies for major infrastructure, resource and mining projects.
He was a member of the NSW working group that drafted the State Groundwater Policy documents and recently has been instrumental in the final form of the NSW Aquifer Interference Policy. He has participated on several expert panels for the NSW government, is a salinity auditor for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, and has been a modelling advisor to the Commonwealth government and to five State governments.
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Becky Rollins
SENIOR HYDROGEOLOGIST
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MSc, BSc
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Becky is a hydrogeologist with nine years’ experience in regional groundwater modelling and resource management in Australia and the UK. Her project experience includes groundwater assessments for open cut and underground mining and coal seam gas developments in NSW and Queensland, including data analysis, desktop assessments and development of conceptual and numerical groundwater models to assess the potential impacts of mining and coal seam gas on groundwater and surface water.
Becky has experience in developing regional groundwater models and rainfall recharge models in the UK, with a focus on assessing the potential impacts of groundwater abstractions for public water supply on groundwater dependent ecosystems. Becky has also been involved in groundwater and surface water monitoring programs, and hydrogeological field investigations.
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Tingting Liu
HYDROGEOLOGIST
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MEng, BEng(Hons)
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Tingting has eight years’ experience as a hydrogeologist and groundwater modeller working with several commercial consultancy companies in Australia. She has been heavily involved in numerous open cut and underground coal mining groundwater modelling projects in NSW and Queensland and has worked mainly on numerical model development, including model conceptualisation, setup, calibration and sensitivity analysis. She has used these to provide model predictions required for the assessment of groundwater impacts. Tingting’s modelling experience includes the use of MODFLOW, SURFACT, USG, FEFLOW, Groundwater Vistas and PMWIN to calibrate and predict groundwater drawdown and recovery for mining projects. She has provided evaluations of groundwater impacts, mine inflows, dewatering requirements and operational water availability. Tingting has a broad knowledge of hydrogeology, including pumping test evaluation, dewatering and artificial recharge. She also has wide ranging capabilities with relevant presentational software such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD and Surfer and is experienced in producing high quality technical figures.
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Adam Skorulis
HYDROGEOLOGIST
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BSc(Hons)
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Adam joined HydroSimulations in June 2015 and works as a hydrogeologist and groundwater modeller. Adam has been involved in groundwater modelling projects, primarily for regional water resource studies, but also EIS, site scale and excavation and mine inflow and dewatering jobs.
Adam has also conducted hydrogeological mapping using bore databases, existing literature, geophysics, and published outcrop mapping in reporting to clients and is a competent user of GIS and databases.
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