Bruce is a director of Oceanica and a coastal scientist with over 20 years experience.  Bruce's background is in coastal geomorphology; particularly beach systems, nearshore and coastal hydrodynamics and marine sedimentology.  He also has extensive experience in environmental assessment and management of dredging operations.  Bruce has been keenly involved in the development and application of techniques for the broad-scale mapping of benthic habitats.  He has strong skills in project management, data analysis, report writing and presentation.

Robert is a PhD qualified marine scientist (UWA) with over nine years consulting and research experience in environmental impact assessment (EIA), biological surveys, water quality management, environmental compliance, auditing and approvals.  Robert completed his postgraduate research studies on the Swan River Estuary, Western Australia, where he investigated the role of benthic fauna in sediment-water nutrient cycling, within the context of eutrophication management.  His professional experience mainly includes undertaking EIA and related risk assessment and biological surveys for clients associated with West Australian marine infrastructure projects and the North West Shelf oil and gas industry.

Justin is a marine ecologist with experience in Australia and overseas. Justin’s work has covered many areas from analysing changes in seagrass communities using video imagery, characterising benthic invertebrate communities of the Recherche Archipelago through to designing and conducting delimiting surveys for marine pests.  The primary focus of Justin’s recent work has been in marine biosecurity. In this area, Justin worked as a senior research scientist for the Western Australian Department of Fisheries conducting one of the first trials of the Australian Marine Pest Monitoring Program. Prior to joining Oceanica Justin was a senior advisor with Biosecurity, New Zealand where he managed marine biosecurity surveillance for ports and harbours around New Zealand. Justin has a strong research background through his post-doctoral research at the University of Western Australia and through his PhD with Northern Territory University.

Marianne has a bachelor and masters degree in marine biology from Tromsø University in Norway and ADAS Part 2 dive qualifications.  Marianne has previously worked in fisheries in the Falkland Islands and on Thursday Island teaching marine biology.  Most recently, Marianne has been working locally in consulting, specialising in dredging environmental impacts.  Marianne is also the Oceanica Occupational Health and Safety officer, assisting the directors with the implementation and auditing of Oceanica's Occupational Health and Safety management system.

Julia has around 15 years experience in marine benthic ecology both in Australia and overseas, with a strong emphasis on phycology.  Julia has considerable experience as a research scientist and her work has covered a wide range of applications including researching anthropogenic nutrient loads on nearshore coastal communities, examining spatial and temporal variability in algal assemblages, investigating genetic relatedness of geographically separate algal populations, using stable isotopes as bioindicators of nutrient sources, deep-water biodiversity surveys, research into the efficacy of marine protected areas and studies of algal productivity.  Julia also has considerable professional experience as a consultant and her projects have included dredge impact and recovery assessment, water quality management, benthic primary producer assessment and impact management, habitat mapping and preparation of environmental impact assessment (EIA) documents.  She also has strong report writing and experimental design skills and has a PhD in marine botany.

Kellie is an engineer graduating with honours in Applied Ocean Science from the University of Western Australia in 2006.  During her time at Oceanica, Kellie has had experience in project and data management, marine environmental surveys and monitoring, dredging management, engineering and initial dilution modelling, coastal processes and geomorphology and environmental impact assessment.

Lotte is a PhD qualified marine ecologist with an interest in rehabilitating seagrass ecosystems.  Her PhD findings developed techniques to increase the success and survival of transplanted seagrasses in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia.  Lotte's professional experience includes management of the Seagrass Research and Rehabilitation Plan which successfully transplanted over three hectares of seagrass into Cockburn Sound.  Lotte has conducted professional training on the use of the underwater fluorometer (Diving-PAM) to government agencies and universities.  Lotte is a confident field leader with over 12 years boating and SCUBA experience who has organised surveys of coral, seagrass, algae and sediments throughout Western Australia.  Lotte spent a year in America undertaking eelgrass monitoring and teaching SCUBA classes at the University of New Hampshire.  Lotte is a qualified (ADAS Part 1) commercial diver and commercial dive supervisor.

Sarah has a double major in marine biology and zoology with honours in marine biology from the University of Western Australia.  Sarah has previously been employed by the Department of Environment and Conservation within the Compliance Monitoring section auditing compliance with Ministerial Statements.  Sarah is an accredited lead environmental auditor with the RABQSA International.

Glenn is a marine ecologist with an interest in marine water quality and its influence on environmental biology.  Glenn has an honours degree in aquatic biology (BSc, Deakin; Hons, La Trobe) and a PhD (UWA) in Zoology.  Glenn is dedicated to the development of monitoring programmes with the capacity to quantify ecological change.  His skills in this area are called upon regularly in the design and review of in-house environmental monitoring programmes.  Glenn’s professional experience includes several years of consulting in the field of limnology (Wetlands Research and Management), marine ecology (Oceanica) and a year with the Marine Ecology Group (UWA), investigating the ecology of demersal fin-fish assemblages of Western Australia, New Zealand and the Sultanate of Oman.  Glenn is an accomplished author, having published several papers in internationally acclaimed peer-reviewed journals.  Glenn is a qualified (ADAS Part 1) commercial diver.

Samantha has a background in coastal geomorphology, having graduated with honours in Geography from the University of Western Australia.  Samantha has experience in coastal vulnerability to climate change.  Her honours project looked at developing a conceptual model for erosion hazard assessment on rocky embayed coasts: focusing on Trigg to Sorrento, Western Australia.

Dinesh has completed a Master of Arts in Geography from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and has recently completed a Master of Science in GIS at Curtin University.  During and after completing his MA he has been involved in a database development project for higher secondary schools, for all 75 districts of Nepal.  Later he worked as GIS Assistant at the National Information Technology Institute/South Asian Institute of Technology (NITI/SAIT) being responsible for instructing GIS trainees, analysis of GIS data and several GIS database development projects.

Pushkar is a GIS Assistant and Cartographer with a keen interest in applying GIS and remote sensing tools to integrate, process, analyse and present environmental data.  Pushkar has completed a Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering from India and a Master of Science in GIS at Curtin University of Technology.  Pushkar is engaged in maintaining Oceanica’s data management systems, providing GIS and cartographic support and updating spatial indexes.  Pushkar is versed in the use of several GIS and Remote Sensing packages.  Pushkar’s skillset includes the assessment of vegetation types derived using remotely sensed imagery and semi-auto classification techniques.

Alex is Oceanica's Administrative Assistant. In this role she deals with day to day administration duties as well as providing support for the consultants.

Alvin completed a B.Com in 2008 with a major in accounting at Curtin University.  In addition to his hands-on experience in accounts and record keeping his studies provide him with solid accounting and administrative knowledge.  Alvin also has a strong interest in IT and has undertaken freelance web design as a hobby after hours.

Caroline works part time for us as our document controller.  In this role she maintains the library of all reports prepared by Oceanica together with other relevant publications, as well as maintaining our EndNote bibliographic database.