Red Gum Ecology
science applied to nature
Welcome to Red Gum!
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I am a one-person ecological consultancy based in Brisbane offering a range of services to a broad variety of clients.
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My aim is to provide accurate, timely and unbiased advice to clients on environmental and ecological issues in relation to legislative and regulatory requirements, planning, land management and ecological values.
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My speciality is flora and vegetation surveys and assessments, including BioCondition, protected plant surveys, ground-truthing regional ecosystems and baseline surveys of ecological values.
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My approach is founded on high ethical standards and my mission is simple - the planet is precious, and Australia's part of it is very special, so together let's do what we can to look after it! To this end I have decided not to take on coal projects.
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ABOUT us
Principal Ecologist Alan House is an ecologist with 45 years' experience in research and consulting. Alan has worked in UK, South East Asia and Australia on a diverse range of projects from basking sharks to primates, rare plants to ants, indigenous livelihoods to invasive wasps, climate change to plant genetics, essential oils to landscape ecology.
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He has led teams in public and private organisations, and managed large multi-agency and multi-disciplinary projects. In his recent consulting roles with he contributed to strategic planning and thought leadership, and in previous positions with CSIRO and the Queensland Government supervised a number of postgraduate students.
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Alan's technical skills are in vegetation and field botany, and he has used those recently in projects involving environmental approvals, impact assessments, conservation planning, and climate change adaptation. Clients Alan has worked for include the renewables, resources (oil and gas, mining), transport, energy, defence, development, telecommunications sectors, and local and state governments clients as well as private companies.
My current CV can be found here.
Services
Sectors
Expertise
Renewables - wind and solar
Resources - oil & gas, electricity
Transport
Aviation
Defence
Government - local state, national
Conservation
Vegetation survey
Regional ecosystem validation
BioCondition assessment
Offset planning
Field botany
Protected plant surveys
Environmental impact assessment
Climate change - modelling and adaptation planning
Fire ecology - bushfire management planning
Invasive species ecology - plants and insect pests
Conservation planning
Plant identification
Scientific review and editing
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Projects
RED GUM ECOLOGY helps clients to know what they need to know, in order to both attain their goals and protect the environment. Over 40 years' experience in research and consulting allows us to assess the risks to environmental assets and avoid unwanted impacts. Learn about some of our past projects below, and get in touch to see what we can do for you.
Client: ACE Power/NGH
Task: Ground-truthing and re-mapping of regional ecosystems and habitat assessments in sub-coastal paperbark woodlands near Townsville, Queensland
Client: NSW Government/Arcadis
Task: Ground-truthing and re-mapping of plant community types in semi-arid floodplain environments near Hay, NSW
Client: Greening Australia/ELA
Task: Ecological survey and management advice for Bidgerley, a significant cultural site for the Barada Barna people