Customers of SAC Environmental Services are set to benefit from the addition of two new members to the team: Jamie Skinner, who will be the new Head of the Environmental Services Group, from 1 October, and Bill Crooks who is a soil and waste management consultant.
Welcoming the new team members, SAC Consultancy Services Director, Dr Stewart Gemmell said,
"With a growing need for the land-based industries to take action to reduce pollution risks and to conserve the environment - while continuing to achieve their business objectives - it is important that the right advice is on hand. These two additions to my team will enhance SAC's ability to provide the advice that our clients in the land-based industries need to help them deal with new legislation such as the Water Framework Directive and the Nitrate Directive, and to meet cross compliance targets."
Jamie Skinner joins SAC from the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation [see note 1], in Spain, where he was Director. A native of Edinburgh and a graduate of Imperial College London, he has wide experience of environmental impact studies, wetland monitoring and management, and ecological modelling. He has worked in France and Spain, and a number of African countries, including Tunisia, Mali, Botswana and Tanzania. Between 1998 and 2001 he was senior environmental adviser to the World Commission on Dams.
New consultant Bill Crooks will be directly responsible for managing SAC's Sludge Recycling Project and SOILCHECK Service, as well as providing advice on soil management, pollution prevention and waste recycling to a range of clients throughout the West of Scotland. Originally from Canada, he has lived in Scotland for a number of years. He has a strong academic and research background in soil science with a specialisation in diffuse pollution and soil moisture monitoring. He also has a background in geomatics (that is the science and study of spatially related information) and remote sensing applications for land and forest classification.
