Louise is a Senior Principal Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in environmental modelling and data analytics. Louise’s career has spanned the progression of environmental models from simple mass balance to complex process based ecosystem models. Louise is a core developer of a complex suite of process based biogeochemical models that can be custom fit for purpose aquatic ecosystem assessment, dynamically linked to any number of hydrodynamic models. Louise manages projects that make use of ecosystem models and data analytics to inform environmental impact assessments and strategic development planning for government agencies as well as water supply, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, ports and aquaculture industries.

Louise is a passionate advocate for collaboration in the use of data to support informed decision making in environmental management and is currently pioneering the use of Environmental Information Models (EIMs) to build virtual representations of the natural environment to enable collaboration between stakeholders, regulators, and industry. The EIMs are co-designed with our research and industry partners by combining tools for data sourcing, analytics, management, communication, and visualisation in a single interactive platform to meet the sustainable development goals of our customers. Combining her knowledge and experience in the built and natural environments, Louise works with diverse teams, industry, and scientific experts to find solutions to complex multifaceted sustainable development challenges.