About Us
Profile Science was established in 2015 to provide environmental services in the field of contaminated land and water. Our staff bring together the science and the mechanical skills to provide practical solutions for industry. We work with our clients to understand and meet their unique individual needs. We have the technical experience to deliver quality work in a professional and safe manner.
A brief introduction to our directors’ skills are below.
Dr Gillian Kopittke (B. Land Resource Science (Hons), MPhil (Mining Engineering), PhD (Soil Science)
Gillian has more than 18 years’ experience consulting in the contaminated land and mining sectors, and in academia in Australia and the Netherlands in soil science research. She currently is a Director of Profile Science Pty Ltd, undertaking environmental and remediation projects in Qld, NSW and ACT. This includes conducting and reviewing of preliminary and detailed site investigations, environmental monitoring, and remediation programs. Gillian also manages a number of legacy sites with long environmental / remediation histories, bringing them through to successful conclusions for an oil major client. She is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS) with a specialisation in Contaminated Site Assessment and Management, and she is a Certified Environmental Practitioner (CEnvP) with a Site Contamination specialisation. She is an effective communicator of scientific topics to a wide audience and has presented training to Soil Science Australia (SSA) members, scientific seminars at international conferences and was a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. During her working career, Gillian has investigated salinity solutions on mines in central Queensland, sub-surface solute transport (including nitrogen and pH changes) on artillery firing ranges and monitoring of waste water irrigation.
Mr Wayne Dwyer
Wayne has more than 25 years industry experience, working in mechanics, hydraulics and remediation systems. Wayne is a trained mechanic who has upskilled within the environmental industry to provide tailored equipment for remediation of contaminated lands. The key highlights of his recent remediation projects include the installation, commissioning, ongoing maintenance and monitoring of vapour and water extraction systems; water treatment systems, air sparging systems; and mobile and semi-permanent multi-phase vacuum extraction systems. Wayne is experienced in Advanced Systems Operation, Maintenance & Upgrades, and Innovation particularly electrical systems. He has supervised a number of Facility Decommissioning’s and further tasks include factory acceptance testing of remediation systems ensuring they are engineered to specific standards.