Santo is Discipline Leader of Environmental Science at Meinhardt and has extensive experience in soil and groundwater investigations, remediation and risk assessments of contaminated sites and landfills. He has a broad science background in academia and industry with over 25 years of experience. Santo has specialist technical expertise in remediation of contaminated land and groundwater using biological and chemical techniques having developed innovative methods in mine site rehabilitation and remediation of contaminated soil and water. He has provided technical direction on a large number of environmental site assessments for petrochemical, mining, waste processor and developer clients both in Australia and in the Middle East. Santo has been active in the contaminated site and landfill scientific communities having authored a number of papers on soil and groundwater remediation for International and Australian Journals and Conferences. In the landfill space, he has been involved in environmental compliance monitoring and reporting for groundwater, landfill gas, surface water and leachate at landfills across NSW and Victoria. This has included the design and installation of monitoring infrastructure, Landfill risk assessments and development of landfill monitoring plans.