Robin Ormerod

Robin has over 27 years of consulting experience in air quality and atmospheric science and is one of Australia’s leading figures in air quality management.

He has conducted numerous impact studies and environmental risk management projects for a wide range of industries in Australia and overseas, and has contributed to significant public policy projects relating to air quality. He has also developed new methodologies and techniques in air quality and odour assessment that are widely used.

Robin was the chairperson of the Odour Special Interest Group of the Clean Air Society of Australia & New Zealand (CASANZ) from 2001 to 2004, during which time he chaired international conferences and workshops on odour, and fostered developments in odour assessment. He has received the Distinguished Service Medal from CASANZ and is also a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, accredited by the American Meteorological Society.

His skills and experience are widely sought after in legal and planning proceedings. He has appeared as an expert witness for air quality and odour-related planning cases and prosecutions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand, and has given expert advice in cases in the US. 

Kristin Zeise 

Kristin has over 20 years’ experience in many facets of air quality management including greenhouse gas management, inventory development and regulatory compliance. 

Since 1990, Kristin has completed projects for environmental protection agencies in NSW and Queensland, national environmental reporting bodies such as the National Pollution Inventory, as well as many companies in the private sector. 

In addition to working in Australia and New Zealand, Kristin has also worked internationally in the United States and South East Asia where she has completed projects for the OECD, the US EPA and on air quality management programs for metro Manila in the Philippines. 

Kristin’s knowledge of source characterisation of emissions and understanding of industrial processing methods underpins her work in assessing the environmental impact of industrial operations. Her expertise in the area of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions underpins PAE's capabilties in this important field. 

Nigel Holmes

Nigel Holmes is a co-founder of Holmes Air Sciences and is recognised as a leader in the field of atmospheric sciences. He has been involved in atmospheric research, teaching and consulting for the past 25 years, having published on the subject in refereed scientific journals including Nature. He is one of the authors of the forerunner to the model AUSPLUME which is now Australia's de facto regulatory dispersion model.

From 1996 to 1998, Nigel was chair of the Modelling Special Interest Group of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand which is the association of professionals working in the field of air quality. He is currently a member of the National Environment Protect Measure’s Peer Review Committee which is determining the protocols for measuring air quality in Australia.

Nigel has a BSc (Hons.) and a PhD in Physics awarded by Adelaide University in 1972. Since graduating he has worked as research associate in the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Lancaster (UK) (1972 to 1975), as a lecturer in the Physics Department of the West Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) (1976 to 1979) and as a consultant responsible for air quality and noise consulting work in the Dames and Moore offices in Australia and East Asia (1979 to 1988). 

Since 1998 he has been a director of Holmes Air Sciences and has developed the firm’s services in air quality and environmental noise.

Kerry Holmes PhD

Kerry Holmes joined Holmes Air Sciences in 1990 as a principal and director, bringing to the firm a background in chemistry and health sciences. Since this time, she has worked on numerous projects including over fifty roadway projects in NSW, SA, Victoria, Queensland, Singapore and New Zealand. She has an in-depth knowledge of air quality issues in the transport sector and has undertaken air quality assessment including dispersion modelling for numerous major roadway tunnel projects including the M5 East, Eastern Distributor, Cross City Tunnel and Lane Cove Tunnel in NSW and the Brisbane North South Bypass Tunnel, Brisbane Northern Link and Airport Link in Queensland. .

Kerry is a past president of the NSW/ACT Branch of the Clean Air Society, and in this capacity has played an active role in encouraging scientific debate in Australia on the issue of fine particles in the atmosphere, a significant issue for roadway tunnels.

As well as working on a large number of environmental assessments for roadway projects, Kerry has also undertaken projects aimed at developing guidelines for assessing the air quality impacts of roadways. These include the Air Quality Assessment and Monitoring Guideline – Roadways and Road Tunnels prepared for NSW RTA (2007) and the Air Quality Monitoring Program 1990 to 2003 prepared for Roads and Traffic Authority NSW (2004).

Kerry has an honours degree from the University of Adelaide, majoring in chemistry and mathematics, and a PhD in chemistry from Lancaster University (1976). She has undertaken professional training courses at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, the West German Institute for Cancer Research and the Harvard School of Public Health; as well as holding research positions at the University of Adelaide, University of Western Australia, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. She has published over 40 articles in refereed journals including the Lancet and Science, in the field of immunology, cancer research and physical chemistry.