Risatec Pty Limited is a company based in the state of New South Wales Australia.
Risatec‘s vision is to be a leading international researcher and provider of environmental scientific instruments.
Risatec’s long-term corporate objectives are to discover and commercialize worldwide scientific products which promote a safer and ecologically balanced environment by:
Mr William James Scott B Arch Managing Director
Bill is a chartered architect and has been practising for over 30 years. In 1979 he co-founded a building and property development company, which has won numerous industry awards and now has a multi million dollar annual turnover.
Mr Peter Alexander Scott BSc (Hons) Director
Peter has over 30 years experience in the mining, minerals exploration and coastal land development industries in Australia and the Asia Pacific region in geology, applied geochemistry and data analysis. He specialises in acid drainage assessment-remediation and management, mining waste management projects, waste rock characterisation studies, leachate control and modelling, baseline studies for monitoring leachate development from mining waste, rehabilitation of mine waste facilities and development of environmental management plans for life-of-mine operation, assessment and management of acid sulfate soils in coastal lowland terrains. Peter has developed a practical, cost-effective modelling strategy that incorporates waste geochemical characteristics into the development of waste schedules and mine plans, facilitating the most efficient and selective placement of environmentally sensitive wastes. He has extensive project management experience and has supervised acid drainage remediation projects in the gold and base metals mining, coal mining and coastal land development industries.
Peter has been instrumental in his company HLA Envirosciences P/L winning the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Award for Excellence in Consultancy for his environmental work associated with the Pacific Harbour Canal and Marina Estate Development at Bribie Island Queensland. He was awarded the UDIA Award for Consultants Excellence in 2002 and 2004 and was a finalist in 2003 for water quality management and endangered species habitat reconstruction at the Pacific Harbour land development on Bribie Island. He is also instrumental in securing the award for QM Properties Pacific Harbour Development, the 2001 Prime Ministers Award for Excellence in Community and Business Partnership. Other awards include the 2004 Exemplars for water quality management for the treatment of construction water in coastal land developments.
Dr David Murray McConchieDip Ed BSc MSc (with distinction), PhD Director
David is the Professor (personal chair) of Engineering and Environmental Geochemistry at Southern Cross University, Australia where he leads the Applied Geochemistry Research Group and co-founded the Centre for Research on Acid Sulfate Soils. David is also a Director and Chief Scientist for Virotec International Ltd. and a Director of RISATEC Pty. Ltd. and Mt Aspiring Geochemistry Consultants Pty. Ltd. He has received numerous research grants, published over 100 research papers and 5 books, made over 80 conference presentations, prepared over 300 consultancy reports, and is an author of 7 patents; his books, Practical Sedimentology and Analytical Sedimentology (Chapman & Hall, N.Y.), were described in a review in the December 1995 issue of The Australian Geologist as “contemporary classics in sedimentology”. In recognition of the quality of his research and consultancy work, he was a finalist in the Australian Eureka Prize for environmental research in both 1995 and 1996; he also received a Vice-chancellor’s award for teaching excellence at Southern Cross University in 1995. He is a member of the Association of Applied Geochemists, the Society for Sedimentary research, the International Association of Sedimentologists, the American Geological Institute, the Geological Society of Australia, the Geological Society of New Zealand and the Clay Minerals Society. Over the last 20 years his research and consultancy work has focused on the geochemistry of trace metals in sediment, water and biota; acid sulfate soils and acid rock drainage; early diagenetic mineral transformations; trace element speciation in sediments; the influence of biota on trace element distributions in sediment and water; and the use of bauxite refinery residues in environmental remediation. He has carried out geochemical and sedimentological consultancy work, for a wide range of industry and government organisations, in Australia and overseas and specialises in the development of innovative solutions for environmental problems. His recent work on treating bauxite refinery residues and using the modified materials to treat acid rock drainage, tailings dams and pit lake water, acid sulfate soils, sulfidic mine tailings and waste rock, and some industrial effluents, is proving to be exceptionally effective and the technology is now being marketed worldwide by Virotec International.
Dr Leigh Albert Sullivan BSc (Hons IIA) PhD Director
Leigh is Associate Professor of Soil Science, Associate Dean (Research) in the Division of Health and Applied Sciences at Southern Cross University, and Director of the Center for Acid Sulfate Soil Research. He has a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Sydney (1988) and has active research programs in acid sulfate soil assessment and management. He has particular research interests in the processes, identification and management of acid sulfate soils and in innovative carbon sequestration processes in soil. He has been actively engaged in environmental research for the last 20 years, has over 80 refereed research publications, one full patent and one provisional patent, and has attracted competitive research funding of over $4 million. He is presently Chair of the International Union of Soil Sciences Acid Sulfate Soil Working Group. Associate Professor Sullivan has co-edited two books on acid sulfate soils: Acid Sulfate Soils in Australia and China (2002, Science Press, Beijing) and Acid Sulfate Soil Laboatory Methods Guidelines (2004, Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Indooroopilly). He was appointed by the NSW Minister of the Environment to be the Land Scientific Expert on the Advisory Council for both the NSW State of the Environment 2000 and 2003 Reports. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Pedosphere, published by Science Press ( Beijing). A recent award of Associate Professor Sullivan was the Most Meritorious Oral Presentation Prize at The 3rd Soil Science Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Societies of Soil Science, Sydney, 5 - 9 December, 2004. He was also invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference in Adelaide, South Australia, 16-18 September 2004.
Mr Richard Thomas Bush BSc (Hons. First Class) PhD Director
Richard is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Environmental Science and Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia. For the past 12 years Richard has developed specialist skills in the fundamental geochemistry and management of acid sulfate soil materials. On this subject he has published 70 refereed papers and is recognized internationally for his contributions. He was co-organiser of the first national conference on acid sulfate soil in 1993 and editor of the conference proceedings. Since 1993 he has continually contributed to the development of industry management guidelines and regulations for sulphidic and sulfuric materials and acid drainage through the Acid Sulfate Soil Management Advisory Technical Committee - a NSW State Government committee. Richard was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000, and has attracted in excess of $3 million of highly competitive research funding. In recent times, Richard has established a number of large collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects involving industry, government and research providers to address the decline of soil and water resources in agricultural landscapes.
Mr Malcolm Hugh Marshall Director
Malcolm is Southern Cross University Executive Director and Vice President (Corporate Services) and represents the University.
Mr Georges Thierry Garrone MBA (Exec) BSc PMP General Manager