Overview of Odor Policy, Practice and Regulation in Australia
Robin Ormerod, CCM – Principal Consultant and Managing Director, PAE
Robin is a leading odor practitioner in Australia, and has been an air quality and meteorological consultant since 1981. He is accredited as a Certified Consulting Meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society. Robin has prepared and reviewed many air quality studies. He has also given evidence in court and tribunal proceedings, commissions of inquiry and public hearings relating to air quality in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand. He is a co-founder and director of Pacific Air & Environment, a consultancy that specializes in air quality and related environmental issues and which has been operating since 1995.

The In’s and Out’s of Odor Modeling and Emission Inventorying
Geordie Galvin, Environmental Engineer, PAE
Geordie, a recent addition to the professional staff of Pacific Air and Environment, previously of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, has pioneered a back-calculation emission technique for area sources, maintained a research olfactometer, and conducted research in the air quality area for 5 years. Mr. Galvin is currently providing services for agricultural operations under odor litigation.

Lessons Learned: An American’s Experience Studying Odor Down Under
Chris Henry, Extension Engineer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chris recently spent 9 months in Australia as a Fulbright Scholar with the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, University of Southern Queensland. He worked on several projects comparing regulatory differences between the US and Australia livestock industry, worked on several odor modeling projects, and a project developing new odor criteria for the feedlot industry.