CHRIS LANE
BEnvSc (Mar/EnvSc) (Hons)
principal marine ecologist
CURRICULUM VITAE
Chris is a principal marine ecologist with significant environmental
consulting experience, gained through the successful delivery of
marine science projects in remote and often unforgiving
environments throughout Australia and internationally.
As a project manager, lead field scientist, coxswain and commercial
diver, Chris has gained vast experience in water & sediment quality
assessments & monitoring, benthic community assessment
(including coral & seagrass communities), marine pest surveys,
ecological risk assessment and marine habitat mapping.
Chris’s projects have provided him with the broad knowledge base
and practical ‘hands-on’ experience that is required to achieve his
client’s objectives of in a safe, cost-effective and scientifically robust
manner.
Chris is an experienced
marine ecologist skilled
in project management,
baseline ecological
assessment &
monitoring, water &
sediment quality
monitoring, marine pest
surveys, marine habitat
mapping and remote
offshore health and
safety.
qualifications + accreditations
Geraldton Port Authority – Maintenance Dredging
~ Bachelor of Environmental Science
Manager and Lead Marine Ecologist for seagrass
– Seagrass Monitoring, Geraldton, WA – Project
(Marine/EnvSc) (Hons) Murdoch University,
monitoring project to support the Port’s annual
Western Australia
maintenance dredging.
~ ADAS Part I (Nitrox) & Part II Commercial
Diver (AS2815)
Sino Iron Port – Sediment Quality and Water
Aesthetic Monitoring Program, Cape Preston, WA
~ Commercial Vessel Coxswain (Grade 2)
– Project Manager for during and post-construction
sediment quality monitoring surrounding the
~ DTEC Defensive Driver (TLIC107C)
desalination plant brine discharge ocean outfall.
~ 4WD (SRODRV 001B)
Bunbury Port Authority – Marine Sediment
~ Senior First Aid, CPR & Advanced Oxygen
Resuscitation
Sampling , Bunbury, WA – Senior Marine Scientist
and Coxswain responsible for sampling of marine
sediments to classify sediment characteristics
~ OPITO TBOSIET (HUET)
~ Maritime Security Induction Card (MSIC)
~ Construction Industry White Card
relating to formation and changes to an estuarine
delta at the mouth of the Preston River.
API Port Development – Coral Health, Water and
~ DFES Volunteer Marine Rescue Crew Member
Sediment Quality Monitoring, Anketell Point, WA –
~ DFES Volunteer Fire Fighting Certificate
Project Manager and Senior Marine Ecologist for
relevant project history
the 24-month baseline coral health and water and
Geraldton Port Authority – Maintenance Dredging
new greenfield port development and associated
– Sediment Sampling, Geraldton, WA – Project
capital dredging program.
Manager and Senior Marine Ecologist for sediment
Santos – Mutineer-Exeter Discharge Monitoring
sampling
project
compliance
Programme, North West Shelf, WA – Lead field
conditions
for
Authority
scientist for offshore water and sediment quality
to
meet
Geraldton
EPA
Port
maintenance dredging project in 2011.
sediment quality monitoring program to support a
sampling to validate PFW modelling discharge from
an FPSO.
CHRIS LANE
BEnvSc (Mar/EnvSc) (Hons)
principal marine ecologist
CURRICULUM VITAE
Spotless – Defence Wharf Marine Pest &
Department of Transport - Palm Island baseline
Environmental Baseline Survey, Eden, NSW –
benthic survey, Far North QLD – Marine scientist,
Senior Marine Scientist for a baseline survey of
commercial diver and vessel skipper for baseline
the marine environment surrounding an existing
surveys to assess coral and seagrass cover and
Defence wharf facility. Project included benthic
determine impacts of maintenance dredging of the
survey, intertidal survey, sediment sampling,
Palm Island entrance channel.
benthic
infauna
sampling
and
visual
and
photographic pylon inspection.
BHPB
IO
-
Outer
Harbour
Water
Quality
Monitoring, Port Hedland, WA – Lead Field
Sino Iron Port – Introduced Marine Pest (IMP) Risk
Scientist
Assessment and Survey, Cape Preston, WA –
telemetry systems & permanent loggers) at 18 sites
Project Manager for post-construction IMP risk
for baseline survey of a proposed large port
assessment and baseline survey of the Port
development and capital dredging program.
infrastructure
prior
to
commencement
of
operations.
Brisbane
Water
for
water
Corporation
quality
–
monitoring
Ecological
(i.e.
Monitoring
Program, Wilson Inlet, Denmark, WA – Senior
Airport
Corporation,
Environmental
Marine Scientist and Coxswain for ecological
Dredge Monitoring, South East QLD – Marine
monitoring project, including monthly water quality
Scientist responsible for monitoring of dredge
monitoring and plume mapping, and quarterly
operations relative to the construction and
benthic invertebrate and sediment sampling and
reclamation to expand the Brisbane airport. This
groundwater monitoring.
role included field survey, client liaison, water and
sediment quality data collection, analysis and
reporting.
Fremantle, WA – Principal Marine Scientist and
commercial part II diver for survey of dredge spoil
Iron Ore Holdings – Cape Preston East Port
Development
Fremantle Ports – Seagrass Recovery Surveys,
–
Environmental
Technical
Investigations, Cape Preston, WA – Project
Manager of the technical studies (including IMP risk
assessment) required to support state government
approval documentation for a greenfield port
development in the Pilbara. Also, Lead Scientist
ground to assess seagrass meadow recovery.
Abbot Point Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
(Benthic Survey), Far North QLD – Marine Scientist
for baseline benthic habitat (coral & Seagrass)
survey, to support preparation of an EIS for a
proposed port expansion.
and Coxswain for the marine habitat mapping and
Bunbury
benthic community survey.
(Seagrass) Mapping , Bunbury, WA – Senior
EIA for A-South & A-North Oil Field Development,
Doha, Qatar – Senior Marine Scientist for benthic
and sediment sampling surveys to assess coral
cover and determine impacts of expanding the A-
Port
Authority
–
Benthic
Habitat
Marine Scientist and Coxswain responsible for
mapping of benthic habitat, primarily seagrass
meadows in the vicinity of a proposed port
expansion project.
South and A-North oil fields in the Arabian Gulf.
Sino Iron Port – Environmental Breakwater
Surveys completed in 2009 and 2012.
Assessment, Cape Preston, WA – Project Manager
Vermillion Oil & Gas - Produced Formation Water
(PFW) Sheen Satellite Verification Survey, North
West Shelf, Pilbara, WA – Project Manager and
and lead scientist for post-construction survey of
the
core-loc
breakwater
to
assess
coral
recruitment, condition and habitat availability.
Lead Scientist for the sampling and concentration
BHPB IO - Outer Harbour Seagrass Surveys, Port
mapping of PFW sheen to validate satellite imagery
Hedland, WA – Field Team Leader for seagrass
analysis of sheen mapping. Project included
habitat surveys to support identification of
pioneering a sampling method not previously used
potential monitoring locations during construction
in Australia for this purpose.
of a proposed large port development.
CHRIS LANE
BEnvSc (Mar/EnvSc) (Hons)
principal marine ecologist
CURRICULUM VITAE
MCCAH, Anketell Point Baseline Coral and Water
marine benthic habitat assessment , habitat
Quality Monitoring, WA – Marine Ecologist in the
mapping, marine fauna assessment and baseline
baseline marine ecological studies, required for the
sediment quality investigation for a timber jetty
environmental impact assessment and regulatory
extension on Christmas Island.
approval of a new greenfield port development.
Specific studies included benthic habitat mapping,
desalination mixing zone baseline assessment and
baseline coral health, water quality and sediment
quality monitoring.
Aurukun Bauxite project (Marine Ecology), Cape
York, QLD – Field based survey (including aerial and
beach survey methods) of turtle nesting sites
adjacent to a mining lease near Aurukun and
proposed port site development. This role involved
extensive field survey and management of the
significant safety considerations for working in
remote Western Cape York.
Aurukun Bauxite project (Water Quality), Cape
York, QLD – 12-month baseline water quality
assessment for a proposed mine site development
in remote Western Cape York. Project included instream telemetry systems and fortnightly sampling.
Abbot Point Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
(Water quality monitoring), Far North QLD –
Marine Scientist for 12-month baseline water
quality monitoring to support preparation of an EIS
for a proposed port expansion.
Bunbury
Structure
Port
Plan
Authority
(IHSP)
–
–
Inner
Strategic
Harbour
Public
Environmental Review (SPER), Bunbury, WA –
Technical Study Manager for the management of
more than >30 scientists to deliver the technical
aspects of the approval project. Technical
investigations included air & noise, terrestrial
flora & fauna, marine fauna, marine noise,
benthic habitats, marine environmental quality,
surface water quality, soil quality, hydrodynamic
& sediment transport modelling.
Sino Iron Port Development Coral and Sediment
Quality Monitoring, Cape Preston, WA – Project
Manager and Marine Ecologist for an ongoing, longterm (5yr), coral health compliance monitoring
program.
Flying Fish Cove Jetty Extension – Marine
Environmental Investigations, Christmas Island,
Indian Ocean – Lead Scientist for pre-construction