Perth based, dual national environmental executive with specializing in environmental impact assessment. Rean has lived in the Pacific where she lived and worked in Samoa while she undertook a waste management project in collaboration with SPREP.
Rean has a demonstrated track record in marine, coastal and land based marine science, leadership and management in Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Rean has worked both in private industry and State and Federal government agencies as an environmental professional /regulator as well as operating a sole trader consultancy business specializing in marine pollution, waste management issues, environmental impact problem solving and management.
Rean has also worked as the regulator in Marine Park Management for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, regulation of shipping, regulation of airspace and regulation of the oil and gas industry offshore and onshore.
Rean is an adaptable, self-motivated, positive and a reliable leader with well-developed interpersonal skills, high emotional intelligence, client liaison and negotiation skills.
I am a Principal Scientist and Freshwater Group Manager at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand. I have 20 years of experience in environmental science and management. My areas of expertise are water quality data analysis, water quality monitoring operations and network design, invasive species ecology, river hydrology, groundwater ecology, algal ecology and coral reef ecology (60 scientific papers).
Prior to working at NIWA, I was a research ecologist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. At NIWA, I have led large, government funded research programmes and numerous consulting projects for Maori tribes, NGOs, local, regional and national agencies, and private industry. I have just completed a 15-month sabbatical at The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii. During that sabbatical, I organised citizen-based water quality monitoring for the island of Maui, and compiled coastal water quality data from islands across the mid-Pacific.
