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Our Team
We have a highly qualified and experienced team of ecologists, landscape architects and NRM professionals who are ready to bring their diverse range of skills to your project.
Our staff have extensive experience working across Victoria and NSW, including:
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Grasslands
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Grassy woodlands
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Box-ironbark forests
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Tall forests of the Central Highlands
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Otway Ranges
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Alpine
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Macedon Ranges
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Strzelecki region
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Mallee
Daniel Young
Director &
Principal Ecologist
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Daniel Young has a degree in Biological Sciences from La Trobe University with a double major in botany and population genetics. Daniel has been working in the conservation and land management sector for over 12 years, initially undertaking hands-on land management before transitioning into consulting and subsequently establishing Tailored Restoration Ecology and Conservation (TREC) Land Services in 2017.
Daniel has considerable experience working as a botanist and ecologist throughout Victoria and has worked in a wide variety of vegetation types and bioregions. He has completed flora and fauna assessments including targeted surveys, EVC mapping, weed mapping and a wide range of other ecological related tasks.
Prior to training as a consultant, Daniel spent many years undertaking active ecosystem restoration works throughout many areas of Victoria, coming to specialise in Grassland and Grassy Woodlands to the north and west of Melbourne. Daniel has been involved in a considerable amount of conservation restoration activities including sensitive weed control. Many of these projects involved working closely with land managers to develop a program of works which would meet the long-term restoration objectives of the site and include a diverse range of best practice restoration techniques.
Adrian Lamandé
Senior Botanist & Consulting Ecologist
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Adrian holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from the University of Newcastle. He has worked as an ecologist specialising in vegetation monitoring and management for over 15 years. He has considerable experience completing vegetation quality assessments, habitat hectare assessments, and flora and fauna surveys.
Adrian has lectured at Victoria University, developing and delivering course material for a range of units including Australian Plants, Fundamentals of Ecology, Environmental Rehabilitation and Australian Landscapes and Biota.
Adrian is currently engaged as a Senior Consulting Ecologist and Botanist at TREC Land Services and provides consulting services to both government and private clients, as well as having a key mentoring role for our newer team members. His previous roles have included management and senior consulting botanist responsibilities. In addition, he collected threatened species data and performed offset assessments for the Living Murray Project at the icon sites Mulcra island and Hattah-kulkyne.
Lauren Blair
Senior Consulting
Ecologist. Zoologist &
Major Projects Coordinator
E - lauren.blair@treclandservices.com
Lauren holds a Double Bachelor’s in Environmental Science and Environment & Society, with First Class Honours in Applied Science (Marine Ecology) from RMIT University. Her honours research investigated the anthropogenic and ecological impacts on manta rays in Fiji, by developing a weight comparison between plastic and plankton to quantify ingestion risk. The study combined intensive field surveys, plankton and beach sampling, source tracking of plastics, and detailed laboratory analysis, providing insight into how marine plastics enter and impact pelagic food webs.
Lauren has worked across projects for state and local government, catchment management authorities, renewable energy and major infrastructure projects; including solar farms, transmission lines, road and freeway upgrades, and rail infrastructure. Her experience covers threatened species surveys, conservation area design, habitat restoration, aquatic and desilting works, and biodiversity management planning. She also brings strong experience in stakeholder and community engagement through volunteer coordination for ‘Friends of’ groups and citizen science programs.
Within these projects, Lauren has led and contributed to the implementation of the following survey techniques including camera trapping, spotlighting, thermal imaging, Anabat acoustic monitoring, call playback, tile surveys, transects, and targeted bird surveys, for both general and threatened species including Powerful Owls, Greater and Yellow-bellied Gliders, Eltham Copper Butterfly, Southern Toadlet, Glossy Grass Skink, and more.
At TREC, Lauren coordinates and delivers the New South Wales projects. She manages field logistics, team coordination and client liaison, and provides mentoring and operational support to ensure consistent, high-quality ecological outcomes.
Graham Jury
Senior Zoologist & Consulting Ecologist
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Graham holds a Masters in Conservation Ecology from La Trobe University, and a BSc in Biological Sciences with a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Sciences from the University of Canterbury. He has a broad cross-disciplinary research background in Australia and New Zealand.
Within Victoria, Graham draws upon his lifelong interest for entomology, terrestrial ecology and animal behaviour to inform and direct his engagement with restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation. Graham has worked locally in biodiversity conservation since 2015 and has a particular passion for slow-shift successional restoration and the use of Victorian fauna as site quality indicators.
Graham's current areas of expertise include invertebrate, frog, bird and reptile ID, as well as VVP grassland ecology, conservation reserve management planning and open sward restoration. Graham’s Masters research involved cataloguing and quantifying the pollinator community of the severely depleted local tree-form of the Silver Banksia in Central and Western Victoria. This project highlighted the ecological services and requirements of this threatened tree across a range of sites, in order to aid land managers to facilitate its gradual return to these landscapes.
Graham is broadly experienced in multiple fauna survey techniques including Elliot trapping, camera trapping, call playback and tile surveys. Graham has professional experience with many threatened and protected species in Victoria and beyond, including Golden Sun Moth, Striped Legless Lizard, Bibron's Toadlet, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Growling Grass Frog, and Barking Owl. He has supervised Golden Sun Moth surveys across multiple sites for several years and assisted and advised in the annual management of high-quality GSM grasslands across Victoria. Graham has advised GSM conservation initiatives at both the State and Federal levels.
Mel Stagg
Senior Landscape Architect & Native Vegetation Consultant
Melissa holds a Bachelor and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design, and brings over a decade of experience in landscape architecture and NRM to the company. She joined TREC to work with the team in designing and delivering landscape projects, which aren’t only beautiful and functional, but also have ecological integrity.
Melissa joined the TREC team in 2023, bringing a passion for our natural environments and a sound knowledge of indigenous flora, Melissa has also been engaged in the NRM and landscape restoration sector since 2017, including in the indigenous seed bank sector. Across her career, Melissa has delivered a wide range of design and NRM projects, including programs working with rare and threatened plant species. She also has extensive fieldwork, including many years as a seed collector, gaining practical first-hand knowledge of Victorian natural environments and how they function. Using this insight, she has developed a design methodology which brings basic principles of landscape restoration ecology, together with landscape design principals, to produce more well-rounded, and environmentally sensitive landscape design outcomes.
Working across a broad range of sectors, Melissa has delivered biodiverse and sustainable landscape designs, across both urban and regional environments. She has experience working with local, state and federal government, as well as organisations across urban development, private landholders, educational, and not-for-profit sectors. As a senior member of the team at TREC, Melissa leads and assists on a broad range of projects and aspects of the business management.
Charlotte Hall
Consulting Ecologist & GIS Analyst
Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Wildlife and Conservation Biology from La Trobe University, with First Class Honours in Urban Landscape Ecology and a Diploma of Conservation and Land Management from Swinburne University.
Charlotte has worked with TREC since 2025 and has been employed in conservation-related roles since 2021. She has experience in flora, fauna, and aquatic surveys, landscape-scale habitat connectivity analysis, report writing, project management and GIS mapping, with additional experience in on-ground land management and the Indigenous nursery and seedbank sector. Charlotte has worked across Victoria as a botanist and ecologist, undertaking targeted threatened species surveys, vegetation condition monitoring, and large-scale mapping projects.
Charlotte’s Honours research examined nest box suitability for Inland Sugar Gliders in urbanised environments, with a particular focus on the effects of canopy connectivity and infrastructure density at the landscape scale within Banyule. This research also involved extensive collaboration with community groups and a strong focus on community engagement in conservation.
At TREC, Charlotte works on a varied range of projects including roadside conservation value assessments, conservation management plans, targeted threatened species projects such as Growling Grass Frog and Bibron’s toadlet. In addition to her role as an ecologist, Charlotte is the primary GIS Analyst within the team, providing specialist GIS mapping support across projects.
Danielle Harmshaw
Consulting Ecologist & Junior Landscape Architect
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Danielle holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology) and is currently completing a Master’s in Landscape Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her studio work focuses on waterway management and native landscape design, with a strong emphasis on Indigenous design principles and engagement.
Danielle has diverse experience across environmental management disciplines, including restoration ecology, renewable energy, waste management, and strategic sustainability. While working at Deakin University, she led a university-wide sustainability behavior change program, earning the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Sustainability.’ Since joining TREC Land Services, Danielle has contributed to various ecological consulting projects, including the City of Whittlesea’s 10-Year Fuel Management Partnership Plan. In this role, she helped identify existing and new partnership opportunities through stakeholder engagement and facilitated Traditional Owner-led burns.
At TREC, Danielle leads Melbourne Water’s Liveable Communities and Liveable Waterways incentive program as the Site Assessor for the Lower Yarra and Upper Maribyrnong Catchments.
Michael Cirone
Senior Team Leader & Project Manager
Michael holds a Diploma of Conservation and Land Management from Melbourne Polytechnic and has over a decade of experience working in the conservation and land management sector. His career has focused primarily on on-ground ecological restoration across Victoria, with experience spanning a wide range of ecosystems.
Michael has a particular specialisation in the Victorian Volcanic Plains grasslands and brings a strong strategic planning approach to weed management and restoration, aimed at achieving long-term ecological outcomes. In addition to hands-on fieldwork, he has extensive experience conducting vegetation assessments, targeted flora and fauna surveys, and detailed weed mapping.
Currently, Michael works as a Senior Restoration Ecologist and Team Leader at TREC Land Services, where he delivers land management plans for both government and private clients. His role also includes planning, coordinating, and tracking budgets for on-ground field programs.
Finn Devonport
Senior Team Leader & Project Manager
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Finn holds a Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT University.
Finn has over 4 years’ hands-on experience in restoration ecology including remote area flora and fauna survey, roadside surveys, and on-ground restoration and land management works. In particular, he has extensive grassland management experience and a great understanding of systems and processes which compliment his restoration work.
Finn has worked for private organisations and local and state government agencies having lead teams for Hume City Council, Parks Victoria, Wyndham City Council and Brimbank City Council.
Finn works as a team leader across a diverse range of restoration projects for TREC. He is an accomplished project manager and is responsible for several of our large contracts.
Leiana Keogh
Senior Team Leader & Project Manager
Leiana holds a Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT University.
Leiana has extensive land management experience having successfully delivered a large number of projects for TREC in her capacity as team leader. Leiana primarily focuses on the suburban areas of Melbourne including Hume City Council, Merri-bek City Council and Brimbank City Council.
Leiana has also been heavily involved in delivering various good neighbour projects for DEECA, often in conjunction with Parks Victoria and private landholders. She has excellent communication and liaison skills and often serves as the conduit between the clients and the works teams, communicating the project requirements and ensuring the quality of work is of the highest standard.
In addition to her land management responsibilities, Leiana is the key staff member responsible for the long term forecasting of works and resource allocation at TREC. She also co-ordinates the induction and onboarding process for new staff members, and takes an active role in the administration of our internal OHS processes.
Amy McCarthy
Restoration Ecologist
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Amy holds a diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT, and a Bachelor of Environmental Science, majoring in Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Deakin University.
Amy began working with TREC on our restoration crew working on a broad range of weed management and revegetation programs. Amy now works on a range of fauna projects including Golden Sun Moth Surveys, Growling Grass Frog Surveys and Bibron’s Toadlet surveys. Amy has extensive experience in various types of fauna survey techniques, including camera trapping, Elliott trapping, drift fence and pitfall trapping, spotlighting, and using playback/callback to identify bird and frog species.
Amy has also volunteered in wildlife rehabilitation shelters and native plant nurseries. She has special interests in bird life, grassland flora and fauna, arboreal mammals, and terrestrial macroinvertebrates. At TREC, Amy assists with leading in the delivery of restoration crew projects, and is learning new skills to assist the consulting team in aspects of their work.
Tash Pérez
Team Leader, Restoration Ecologist & GIS Coordinator
E - tash.perez@treclandservices.com
Tash holds a Bachelor of Wildlife and Conservation Biology from La Trobe University.
Tash commenced her employment at TREC in 2024 and has been actively involved in the conservation sector since 2018, contributing in both paid and voluntary capacities
At TREC, Tash works within the restoration crew where she assists on a broad range of projects, mainly focused on weed management and revegetation. As a Team Leader, Tash oversees day-to-day operations on site, ensuring that works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. She is particularly passionate about education and continuous learning, and actively incorporates this into her role.
Additionally, she oversees and coordinates the GIS projects utilised by the field crew, ensuring accurate and practical spatial data input. She is responsible for developing and maintaining GIS datasets, as well as producing spatial analysis outputs for clients.
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