Dr Rick Evans is Principal Hydrogeologist with Sinclair Knight Merz. Rick has 28 years experience in groundwater resource management and has worked on numerous water resource projects throughout Australia and Asia, at both a technical and management level. He is the author of several National policy documents, including the COAG National Groundwater Management Policy, and is also a Member of the World Bank Groundwater Management Advisory Team. Rick is a committee member of the Victorian State IAH Branch, and a member of the National Water Commission Groundwater Technical Advisory Committee.

Wendy is based at UNSW's Water Research Laboratory on the northern beaches of Sydney. Part of a team of professional engineers at WRL, Wendy provides expert project consulting and is a chief investigator with the National Centre for Groundwater Resarch and Training. Her 15 year career as a hydrogeologist has led to interesting and rewarding jobs and plenty of remote adventures! She's amazed at the practial use of new technology since she signed up to a 3 day CGS Groundwater School many years ago.

Wendy has a BSc in Geology, Hydrology and Chemistry and in 2001 completed a PhD in Environmental Engineering. She has since worked in Canada and Australia, in a range of roles including research, state government, and consulting. She's given industry training workshops, and co-presented several Masters level courses locally and in Canada.

Wendy's research focus is on aquitards controlling recharge and deep leakage, and the role of low permeability clays in retarding transport of contaminants. She leads an aquitard research team for NCGRT at UNSW using innovative field techniques, lab testing and modelling to quantify leakage rates through porous matrix, and preferrential pathways at multiple spatial and time scales. She has also managed several large investigation projects for clients using desktop, field methods and numerical modelling. Her primary fields of interest are related to groundwater resources, water quality, stormwater harvesting for managed aquifer recharge, and geochemical interactions with aquitards and sediments. Wendy was recently part of the groundwater model review team for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.

Wendy was the NSW Chair of International Association of Hydrogeologists in 2009-2010, and from 2003-2009 was the NSW treasurer. She is also a member of Engineers Australia, the National Groundwater Association, the Australian Water Association and Engineers without Borders.

Lange is a Senior Hydrogeologist with Golder Associates in Sydney, with eleven years academic and professional experience primarily in the field of contaminant hydrogeology. Lange is originally from California, where he earned his BSc in Geological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and spent the first three years of his career with a consultancy in San Francisco. He migrated to Australia with his future wife in 2000 as a PhD student at the University of New South Wales, where his research focused on hydrogeochemical processes in landfill leachate. Lange took a consulting role with ERM in 2003, and moved to Golder in 2007. In his spare time, he got married, became a father, became an Australian Citizen, and completed his doctorate (in that order).

Lange has been involved with the IAH NSW committee since 2006, as a Communications Officer the first year and as Committee Chair thereafter. Over the past three years Lange has worked closely with the NSW committee to increase meeting attendance (which now averages 30+ per meeting) and restructure the meeting format to help the committee turn from nearly bankrupt to financially solvent. The stabilised financial position has allowed the NSW committee to apply increased funding towards the stated objectives of the IAH organisation; initiatives include sponsorship of registration and return airfare for one outstanding groundwater research student for the 36th IAH Congress in Japan in October 2008, and assistance with development of a technical workshop in high resolution field investigation techniques. Lange also successfully coordinated the Australian national application for the 2008 Darcy Lecture in conjunction with the national IAH network, which toured all the major cities in Australia in November 2008.

Ron is a hydrogeologist with extensive experience in water supply development and water resource management throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory for mining, municipal, commercial, horticultural and industrial clients. Overseas experience includes groundwater investigation and water supply development work in Peninsula and East Malaysia (Sabah), Kalimantan (BHP Minerals Indonesia) and Orissa, India (Indo-Australian Aid Project).

Ron has been a member of IAH since 1984 and has been a WA Branch committee member for a large portion of that time. He has filled the roles of Branch Chairman, Vice Chairman and meetings organiser. He is currently both the National and WA Branch Treasurer.

Philip Commander is Principal Hydrogeologist with the Department of Water Western Australia. His 38 year career with the Public Service includes 25 years with the Geological Survey of WA. Philip joined IAH in 1977, is a founder member of IAH in Australia, and has served on the National Committee as Treasurer from 1987 to 1990, as well as involvement with the WA State Branch over many years.

He has stood for re-election to oversee the transition from a state based National Committee to an National Committee with stronger links to the State Branches. He envisages that the National Committee will seek incorporation, which would involve annual elections, and will set up a permanent secretariat, which would facilitate improvements to the website and newsletter.

New South Wales: Dr Wendy Timms
Northern Territory: Chris MacHunter
Queensland: Mal Cox
South Australia: Steve Barnett
Victoria: Chris McAuley
Western Australia: Gary Brophy