Graeme Nyland

Biography

 Graeme Nyland is the Managing Principal of Ramboll Environ’s Sydney office. He is an engineering geologist with more than 35 years of consulting experience in the areas of environmental and geotechnical consulting—the past 25 years of which focused on soil and groundwater contamination. He is a contaminated sites auditor, accredited by both New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (under the Contaminated Land Management Act of 1997), and by Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation (under the Contaminated Sites Act of 2003). Graeme has participated in projects throughout Australia, as well as in the US, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. His areas of environmental expertise include soil and groundwater contaminated site assessments, audits of contamination status for property transfer and property development purposes, site remediation, landfill siting and management, and environmental management. He was accredited as an environmental auditor in 1998, and has conducted more than 400 statutory and voluntary audits in New South Wales (NSW), Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia. Graeme holds an MEngSc in geotechnical and hydrogeology and a BSc (honours) in applied geology, both from the University of New South Wales. In addition, he holds a business management certificate from the Australian Institute of Management.  

Research Interest

 Environmental issues