Audrey [BSc (Hons), PhD, MBPR (FACTS, Amenity)] has over 25 years’ experience as a crop and environmental scientist. She has held senior research posts at both Aberdeen University and SAC, where she worked in sustainable and organic crop production, crop nutrition and soil management. During the past 12 years she has specialised in composting and AD systems, fertilisers, and the use of composts digestates and other organic materials in agriculture, horticulture, landscaping and land restoration. Her main objectives now are to assist compost/digestate producers to improve their products, to work with clients to develop robust and novel markets for organic wastes/organic products, to assist stakeholder organisations to understand the benefits and risks of using bulky organic fertilisers and to help land managers make the best of organic resources.

Audrey has authored numerous publications which have defined best practice in the use of fertilisers and organic materials on land. She is an experienced project manager with an excellent track record in completing consultancy and research contracts for a range of commercial clients, local authorities and government organisations.

Jackie Spurr [Bsc (Hons) AIEMA] leads the Earthcare Technical Environmental permitting team. She has 20 years’ experience working for the Environment Agency as a principal consultant. Jackie has prepared and secured a wide range of environmental permits and exemptions and has vast experience in project management, preparation of planning applications, end of waste by-products justifications, compliance monitoring, auditing, site inspection and the enforcement of permits. Jackie’s career has included two years working within the water industry as a logistical co-ordinator on the sewerage network.

Jackie is responsible for standard and bespoke permit applications for waste management facilities including waste operations and installations, specialising in anaerobic digestion, in-vessel and open windrow composting sites, biomass energy from waste, household, commercial and industrial transfer and treatment including but not limited to: asbestos, soil remediation, metal recycling, end of life vehicle recycling facilities, waste to land recovery permits for both the reclamation of land and the use of waste in construction, mining waste facilities, liquid waste transfer and WEEE recycling facilities.

Maria Fuhrmann [BSc (Hons) PIEMA] has over thirteen years’ experience in environmental consultancy and is a Practitioner of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. Maria specialises in air quality assessment including atmospheric dispersion modelling, impact assessment and emissions management in a range of sectors including waste, agriculture, energy generation and recovery and other industrial and commercial applications.

Maria has an extensive background in amenity monitoring and assessment encompassing dust, odour and bioaerosols in the context of environmental permitting, impact assessment and statutory nuisance proceedings. Maria’s environmental consultancy experience has a strong foundation in waste management including environmental auditing, detailed investigation programmes involving trace gas and stable isotope chemical fingerprinting and research and development in the industrial composting sector.

Liz Reed (BSc (Hons)) is responsible for the accounts and administration functions within Earthcare Technical. Liz has a dairy farming and scientific research background and her unique range of experience benefits many work areas within the business. She assists with editing and review of scientific reports, assist on research projects and keenly monitors the delivery of a wide scope of projects Earthcare Technical undertakes. She is a good communicator with our wide-ranging clients, across the industry, farming and government organisations.