Louisa Nicolson is Technical Lead in the Office of the Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner. She leads the OQMRC’s leading practice advice, preparation of technical papers and technical advice to the Minister for Environment. Louisa holds an MSc (UNE), BSc (CQU) and a Grad Dip (QUT).

Wenqiang Zhang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. Currently, he is working in the area of geochemistry and geohydrology of mine waste. He also works on a CRC TiME project, “Improved prediction, remediation and closure of acid and neutral metalliferous drainage (AMD/NMD) sites by examination of mine waste behaviour at the Meso-scale”. Wenqiang finished his PhD at the Geotechnical Engineering Centre, The University of Queensland, with a focus on weather-induced desiccation behaviours of subaerially-deposited tailings and salt migration in the soil cover system. He has developed expertise in laboratory experiments and field monitoring to investigate hydrological and geochemical processes in tailings deposition and rehabilitation. He is also a specialist in numerical modelling related to water, salt and heat transport in unsaturated soil/tailings.

Timothy is an environmental scientist and has been practicing for 23 years in the fields of soil science, geochemistry and mine closure. He is an experienced closure and rehabilitation specialist. Tim specialises in storage facility design, final landform design, cover design, geochemistry, decommissioning and closure cost estimation.

Pascal Saunier is a French-Canadian professional engineer. After having managed a municipal waste treatment facility for Veolia Environment in France, Pascal joins WSP in Canada in the containment design and QA/QC on geosynthetics field. He continues to develop his expertise in the geosynthetics industry with Texel-Geosol as Engineered Products Manager. He initiates the creation of AFITEX-TEXEL inc., the Canadian manufacturer of DRAINTUBE™ technology, where he takes the lead of the technical development for North America and after a while he becomes Business Development Manager for Canada, North America and Pacific. After almost 20 years of experience in the area of the geosynthetics, geotechnics and international business development in Europe and North America, he has published in his carrier numerous technical papers on geosynthetics, QA/QC on geosynthetics, waste management and mining. He’s a member of ‘’L’Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec’’ (OIQ), the Association of P. Eng. of British Columbia as well as other related organizations as of ASTM D35.