Mark Coleman
Partner in a private consulting company
Actis Environmental Services
Darlington, Western Australia, AUS

Education & Experience:

I have worked as a saline biologist in Australia, and occasionally in Asia, for private commercial ventures and contracts to Government organisations from 1980 to the present.

The work has included:

• Environmental impact evaluations and surveys
• Evaluation of saline lakes as ecosystems
• Solar salt field design, technical and production solutions
• Saline land rehabilitation
• Water chemistry and nutrient recycling
• Waste water management and pollution control
• Anaerobic/sediment ecosystems and their impact on algal blooms
• Commercial growth and harvesting of hypersaline organisms such as Dunaliella and Artemia.

I am also a third partner of a salt harvesting and manufacturing business in South Australia (30 thousand tonnes per annum).

Master of Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania 1988
Grad in Management (Information Sys), CQ University 1995
Bachelor of Science (Zoology, Physiology), University of WA 1979

Representative Publications

George, D. R. and M. Coleman (2001). Hidden Menace or opportunity - Groundwater hydrology, playas and commercial options for salinity in wheatbelt valleys. Dealing with salinity in wheatbelt valleys, Merredin.

Ahmed, M., A. Arakel, et al. (2000). Integrated power, water and salt generation: a discussion paper. International Conference on Sea Water Desalinisation Technologies on the Threshold of the New Millenium., Kuwait, Elsevier.

Coleman MU and M White, The Role of Biological Disturbances on the Production of Salt, 7th Symposium on Salt, Tokyo, 1993.

Coleman, M U and Meney, K (2000a). Impacts of Rural Drainage on Nature Conservation Values – Cost-effectiveness of the EIA Process for Evaluating Drainage Proposals. Report to Department of Conservation and Land Management. actis Environmental and Regeneration Technology

Coleman, M U and Meney, K (2000b). Impact of Rural Drainage on Nature Conservation Values - Proposed Evaluation Guidelines. Report to Department of Conservation and Land Management. actis Environmental and Regeneration Technology

Coleman, M U and Meney, K (2000c). Impacts of Rural Drainage on Nature Conservation Values Nyabing Case Study 2. Report to Department of Conservation and Land Management. actis Environmental and Regeneration Technology 

Timms B V Datson B M and M U Coleman, The Wetlands of the Lake Carey Catchment, Northeast Goldfields of Western Australia, with Special Reference to Large Branchiopods, 5th Large Branchiopod International Conference Toodyay 2004

Most of my reports are commercial in house reports unsuitable for publication.

Candidate's Statement

I have been working on and researching saline ecosystems since 1980 and am known at least locally as a keen advocate of preserving saline ecosystems. Nearly all of my recent work in the last 15 years has focussed on environmental management of impacts on saline ecosystems. I have been particularly enthused by the application of commercial management strategies to provide practical tools for the management of natural systems. The ISSLR is valued by me as a way of meeting and working with like-minded people in a professional and social climate. I have attended four ISSLR conferences and was part of the organising committee for the Perth Australia conference. I bring to the ISSLR a slightly different perspective in that I work in the field of environmental management of commercial intervention in saline ecosystems.

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