NAOMI ARROWSMITH - CHAIR Phone: (W) 9841 0107 E-mail: naomi.arrowsmith@environment.wa.gov.au Naomi is Regional Manager of the Department of Environment and is the Principal Investigator and Project Manager for Watershed Torbay. She has 20 years experience in water resource management, with special expertise in wetland management. Naomi also has a small beef farm in the catchment.
	DR MALCOLM ROBB Phone: (W) 9278 0526 Fax: 9278 0301 E-mail: malcolm.robb@environment.wa.gov.au Malcolm is Manager of Rivers and Estuaries Branch of the Department of Environment. He has specialist expertise in estuarine and wetland ecology, especially nutrient management
	DANNY BURKETT Phone: (W) 9842 4206 (M) 0427 426 855 E-mail: danny.burkett@watercorporation.com.au Danny is the Service Delivery Manager for the Water Corporation in the Great Southern Region. Danny has responsibility for Operations and Maintenance in the Great Southern Region. The Water Corporation operates the Albany Drainage District which is within the Torbay Inlet catchment area
	DAVID WEAVER Phone: (W) 9892 8429 Fax: 9841 2707 E-mail: dweaver@agric.wa.gov.au David is a researcher at the Department of Agriculture, Albany. He has undertaken research since 1990 into catchment and soil processes resulting in the delivery of nutrients from diffuse agricultural sources to waterways around Albany, as well as investigating nutrient sources and sinks, and riparian hydrology and water quality issues in the south coast region. In the last few years this work has been extended to assist in the identification of nutrient hotspots using GIS technology, and provide decision support tools to examine how best management practices can impact on nutrient loss. Prior to his work in Albany, David also spent 8 years as a researcher at the University of Western Australia investigating soils of the Peel Harvey catchment and the treatment of piggery effluent with lime and red mud.
	A/PROF DAVID PANNELL Phone: (W) 9892 8495 (H) 9844 8659 Fax: 9844 8659 E-mail: David.Pannell@uwa.edu.au David is a Resource Economist with the University of Western Australia's Faculty of Agriculture. His research interests are wide and varied and include: management of natural resources in agriculture; dryland salinity; economics of weed management and herbicide resistance; extension policy; adoption and diffusion of innovations; risk and uncertainty; economics of information; economics of research; bioeconomic modelling; and linear programming.
	DR BRAD DEGENS Phone: (W) 9278 0528 Fax: 9278 0586 E-mail: brad.degens@environment.wa.gov.au Brad is a member of the Department of Environment's research staff. He has a background in soil science and agricultural nutrient management. He has more than 5 years experience in researching nutrient dynamics and nutrient management within rural and natural landscapes. In recent years Brad has been developing monitoring, analysis and interpretation programs to evaluate development impacts on water quality. The monitoring and evaluation of Best Management Practices for nutrient management range from the catchment scale to individual property scale in both urban and rural catchments. Brad is constructing a nutrient budget for the Torbay catchment to link with identification of nutrient source areas, constructing a monitoring and evaluation program and co-ordinating investigations of groundwater nutrient source areas to Lake Powell and the drainage system.
	PROF PETER DAVIES Phone: (W) 9892 8414 (M) 0418 913 584 Fax: 9841 2707 E-mail: pdavies@cyllene.uwa.edu.au Peter has extensive experience in ecological processes in a variety of systems both in Australia and internationally. He is especially interested in water allocation issues, riparian-stream linkages and ecological models describing the importance of flood flows and floodplain inundation on the structure of aquatic food-webs. Peter is the founding Director of the University of Western Australia's Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, based in Albany.
	JULIE PECH Phone: (W) 9841 0108 Fax: 9842 0124 E-mail: julie.pech@environment.wa.gov.au Julie has coordinated Department of Environment projects in the Torbay Catchment for three years, working closely with the Torbay Catchment Group since its inception. Julie coordinates workshops, catchment bus tours, waterways best practice catchment demonstration sites, foreshore condition surveys and the distribution of waterways restoration funding throughout the catchment, all with the aim of raising the awareness and practice of good waterways management.
	SARAH COMER Sarah Comer has been working as an Ecologist for CALM's South Coast Region for the last six years. Sarah's work focuses on threatened species recovery programs operating on the south coast. Sarah is responsible for coordinating the Noisy Scrub-bird Recovery and other threatened bird recovery actions including the Western Ground Parrot and Western Bristlebird. Sarah also works on recovery programs for threatened flora, threatened ecological communities and threatened and relictual invertebrates. Sarah has a strong interest in fire ecology and is currently working on the development of fire management strategies for biodiversity conservation in reserves of the south coast.
	PAUL CLOSE Since graduating in 1995 with a BSc (Hons) degree from the Australian National University Paul has worked on projects relating to native fish ecology in both Queensland , for the Centre for Catchment and Instream Research, Griffith University , and in Victoria for the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research. Paul is interested primarily in native fish ecology especially as it relates to hydrological regimes and structural habitat. Paul is currently undertaking PhD studies through the centre. He is supported by the Department of Environment. Paul's PhD studies will investigate ecological water requirements of estuaries.
	ANDREW MAUGHAN Phone: (W) 9841 0104 Fax: 9842 1204 E-mail: andrew.maughan@environment.wa.gov.au Andrew is a hydrographer with the Department of Environment and has fifteen years experience trying to convert streamflow into numbers. He feels most comfortable with his feet in a river and his hands on a computer. He will be gathering data and producing information on catchment runoff, nutrient and sediment transport and coordinating lake and estuarine water quality monitoring.
	STEVE JANICKE Phone: (W) 9841 0114 Fax: 9842 1204 E-mail: steve.janicke@environment.wa.gov.au Steve's varied background has led him to the Department of Environment where he deals with the assessment of fluvial processes in streams and rivers, with a view to improving the management of erosion and sedimentation in our degrading catchments. This has meant getting a clearer understanding of water movement, channel structure and water quality issues. From there we can look at ways to enhance floodway stability, create or protect habitat, and therefore protect biodiversity, and contribute efforts to maintain the proper functioning of our waterways from the top to the bottom of the catchment.
	KRISTINA FLEMING Phone: (W) 9892 8494 E-mail: KFleming@agric.wa.gov.au Kristina manages the South Coast Regional Information Centre (SCRIC), which is a project of the South Coast Regional Initiative Planning Team (SCRIPT). The RIC is working to increase access to spatial information, to build community capacity for using the latest information technologies and to facilitate collaboration for better natural resource management decision making. As RIC manager, Kristina's areas of expertise include coordinating training and educational events, attracting funding and negotiating licence agreements.
	LOUISE DUXBURY Phone: (W) 9848 1019 Fax: 9848 2061 E-mail: louiseduxbury@greenskills.green.net.au Louise has been involved in facilitation, education and training and communication work for the past 20 years with the objective of bringing about attitudinal change leading to changes in behaviour. Her focus in the past 12 years has been particularly on changes in natural resource management to bring about more sustainable land use: protecting our natural resources while enhancing social and economic wellbeing of rural and regional communities.