2015-10-13 Planning & Organisation Agenda Attachment 2 to Item 7 Noosa Estuary and Lakes Restoration Assessment Report

Dr Simon Walker
Director – Ecological Service Professionals Pty Ltd
Adjunct Research Associate – The University of Queensland

Simon is an aquatic ecologist with an extensive knowledge and
understanding of freshwater, estuarine and marine and issues
affecting environmental and fisheries management. He is
particularly skilled in sustainable resource management,
rehabilitation of estuarine and freshwater habitats, biodiversity
assessment and constraints mapping, and assessing the
adaptive capacity of coastal ecosystems to climate change. Simon has worked on
numerous projects that have been pivotal in environmental management decisions of
coastal developments, ports and resource projects, particularly in the effective use of
marine and freshwater resources coupled with sustainable development. He has broad
project experience throughout Australia and in developing countries in the South Pacific.
In particular he has recent relevant experience rehabilitation fish habitat in the Maroochy
River and restoring saltmarsh and mangrove habitats for the Port of Brisbane and QLD
Department of Transport and Main Roads.

Bryan DeAngelis
North America Coastal Habitat Restoration Coordinator – The Nature Conservancy

Bryan DeAngelis has been working in marine restoration , education, research in the US
and Caribbean for over a decade. Bryan spent 8 years in coastal habitat restoration as an
employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Habitat Restoration
Center. At NOAA Bryan gained extensive experience developing, managing, and
implementing a wide variety of habitat restoration projects and techniques, with a special
emphasis on monitoring and measuring project performance. It was with NOAA that
Bryan gained his introduction to the bivalve restoration field as the Coordinator of the
North Cape Lobster and then later the Shellfish Restoration Programs; two multi-million
dollar Natural Resource Damage Assessment projects designed to restore lobster and
bivalve resources and services lost due to a large oil spill on the south coast of Rhode
Island. In January 2013, Bryan was hired by TNC to serve as the North America Coastal
Habitat Restoration Coordinator and to serve as the Coordinator for the National
Partnership between TNC and NOAAs Community-based Restoration Program. This
Partnership with NOAA has funded nearly 150 restoration projects throughout the US and
territories. These projects span the range of habitat types from salmon habitat in the
Northwest to coral restoration in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Hawaii, with
sponge habitat, mangrove, salt marsh, seagrass and plenty of bivalve restoration projects
in between.