Aside from formal qualifications, a combined skill set that is both diverse and unique, and decades of experience across a broad range of industries, the team at Landloch has a distinctive commitment to helping their clients. First and foremost, there is an insistence on applying the best possible science.  Second rate science is unacceptable, as it will always deliver poor outcomes and cost clients money when it has to be rectified. Secondly, our staff are determined to deliver advice that is not simply useful and that precisely addresses the client's problem, but that is actually put into practice.  We provide advice that is practical, and we are able to recommend not just what to do, but how to do it as well. Dialogue with, and mentoring of clients are also standard practice, as the Landloch team know that the best outcomes are achieved when clients understand why certain recommendations have been made, and how to ultimately implement them to achieve a specific, measurable outcome. The Landloch team combine research data and concepts that are grounded in leading scientific method, and use that data to develop models and designs that assist you to achieve your objectives. Flexibility, creativity and the ability to "think outside the box" are integral to achieving the results you want. This is the Landloch difference.

Rob Loch

​Rob Loch

​Rob Loch has over 45 years’ experience in the research and application of land management, soil conservation, and land rehabilitation. His experience encompasses dryland and irrigated agriculture, feedlots, forest management, effluent disposal, urban development, construction and mine sites.  He has experience in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, as well as across Australia.

​Rob is recognised as a Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS), with specialist fields including runoff and erosion control; effects of soil properties on land productivity and stability; land rehabilitation; soil management; sediment properties and soil erodibility, soil erosion and landform evolution modelling, and waste landform design.​​

Evan Howard

Evan Howard
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​Evan is a Director and Principal Consultant at Landloch, and has been with the company since 2005. He heads up Landloch’s Perth office and oversees Landloch’s facilities in South Africa and the United States. Evan has practical experience in land management and water related issues in the fields of material characterisation, mine site landform design, erosion assessments, water use efficiency of irrigated agriculture, urban land use, mine site water and solute balances, and urban wastewater reuse. He has particular interests in characterisation of waste and soil materials for the mining and urban development sectors, erosion assessments for all forms of land use, horticultural and mining water use efficiency, and urban wastewater reuse strategies. 

Simon Buchanan

Simon is a practicing land resource scientist with close to 20 years’ practice in construction, project management, and land resource management. Over this period he has gained a wide range of experience in erosion and sediment control and the stabilisation, rehabilitation, and remediation of disturbed land. He has worked on urban developments, linear infrastructure projects (such as roads, rail, utilities and CSG), mine sites and gas fields across Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

Since 2011 Simon has been recognised as a Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS) and a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC). He was a past President of the SSA – Qld Branch and is currently the Hunter Representative for Soil Science Australia (SSA) – NSW Branch.

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Simon Buchanan

Tim Loch

Tim Loch

Tim has eighteen years of professional experience in environmental management in the mining, construction and technical fields. Tim has a strong background in on-site environmental management, having previously worked at over 40 different mining and construction sites across Australia and internationally. He has worked independently and also managed teams of field workers for many different projects. His experience encompasses erosion and sediment control planning, installation and auditing, soil survey, rehabilitation works (site preparation, seeding), runoff and erosion measurement using simulated rainfall, installation of erosion monitoring systems, weed control, and a diverse range of environmental monitoring tasks (soil, water, flora and fauna, rehabilitation, etc.).
 
Tim has previously provided direction and oversight to teams undertaking erosion and sediment control works on significant construction projects (pipeline and Coal Seam Gas infrastructure).
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​Geoff Sharp
  
​Geoff has over 20 years’ experience in civil construction, agronomic research and environmental impact management.  His expertise includes soil surveys, erosion remediation, waste disposal, landholder liaison, contaminated land management, incident investigation and response, vegetation assessment, negotiating with regulators and environmental approvals.  He has worked in government and private sector organisations in electrical distribution, gas, mining, roads, railways, dams, ports and urban expansion industries in a variety of operational, management and strategy roles.  His focus is practical solutions to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
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Geoff Sharp

Isaac Kelder

​Isaac Kelder
​Isaac is a professional soil scientist and erosion modeller of 5 years’ consulting experience with a specialty in soil survey, land capability and suitability assessment in the mining sector. Isaac has led field programs for mapping and classification of soils and waste materials for sites ranging from the mining proposal stage through to mine closure.

In addition to his background in soils, Isaac is a specialist in the use of erosion models such as SIBERIA to assess the erosional stability of natural landscapes and constructed landforms. He is also skilled in the use of 2-D erosion models such as WEPP and RUSLE for assessment of slope stability.
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Isaac has conducted erosion modelling at conceptual, pre-feasibility and feasibility level of closure investigations for mine sites across Australia and internationally. Assessments range from whole of site to individual landforms, with results used to inform landform design.

Lyndon McGrath
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Lyndon has seven years’ professional experience in environmental management in mining, construction and consulting fields. With strong foundations in soil science, Lyndon has consulted in areas of erosion and sediment control, soil survey, land rehabilitation, plant identification, land capability survey, environmental reporting and a wide range of environmental monitoring tasks (including soil, water, flora and rehabilitation). Lyndon has recently conducted environmental assessments over a wide variety of challenging environments through the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. He has also been involved in soil erodibility studies in the Great Barrier Reef catchment for the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

Lyndon McGrath