Dr Gary Venz - Email
Gary is a physicist with six years of research experience and a PhD in experimental physics. He has a background in materials science, experimental physics, and the use of statistical and computational techniques in the analysis of scientific data.
After completing his undergraduate degree in 1995, he was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence, for achieving the highest grade-point-average in his course. From 1996-1998, he was the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship.
Gary worked for seven years as a part-time laboratory and tutorial supervisor in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the QueenslandUniversity of Technology. During this time, he tutored and supervised undergraduate students in a wide variety of topics including: optics, quantum physics, materials science, radiation physics, mechanics, electronics, computing, statistics, and general physics.
Since joining Mirrabooka Consulting in a senior technical role, Gary has conducted air quality and noise assessments for a variety of projects throughout Australia. These assessments have been performed for clients from a wide range of industries including poultry farming, steel forming, gavanizing, timber processing, fibreglass manufacture, asphalt processing, feedlots and petroleum refining. He has extensive experience in the use of meteorological and air dispersion models including TAPM and AUSPLUME, and has developed a range of software modules for use in air quality assessment projects.
Gary has taken a senior role in developing a range of consulting services for the aviation industry. These include: assessments of meteorological conditions and their application to aircraft operational procedures for specific airports, plume-rise assessments (to determine the possible influence of emitted plumes on aircraft safety) and investigations of air quality issues associated with airport operations.
Gary has appeared in the Planning and Environment Court of Queensland as an expert witness, addressing air quality issues associated with a regional land-fill development, and has conducted dangerous goods risk assessments for health-care facilities.
Gary is also a Justice of the Peace (Qualified).