Our staff

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Staff profiles

Naomi Simpson
Development Officer

Naomi delivers communications for the Western Australian Farming Systems project, a five-year co-investment by DPIRD and GRDC. The project aims to deliver a multi-disciplinary farming systems research approach, focused ...

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Development Officer

Based in Narrogin, Natalie focuses on communication and extension to support farming systems that meet the challenges and capture opportunities in broadacre farming across WA. As part of the Farming Systems Innovation (...

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Technical Officer

Nathan is a technical officer whose primary role involves working on cereal frost research projects and phenology as part of the Grains Genetics team. ...

Neil Lantzke
Senior Research Scientist

Neil is the lead for the department's Vegetable team. Neil’s current areas of interest include irrigation and fertiliser use efficiency, the use of marginally saline water for irrigation, cost effective protected...

Nicole Bell
Technical Officer

Nicole is responsible for providing technical support at the Frank Wise Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Kununurra, across a range of projects and agricultural research activities.

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Manager, Geraldton, Central Region

As manager of the Geraldton Office, I have responsibility for providing support in the production of positive results for the agri-food sector centred around Geraldton and extending across the grain growing region...

Paul Mattingley
Economist

I am based in South Perth and provide advice and direction to Project Managers and their teams in the area of project monitoring and evaluation (M&E). All those involved in projects, be they managers, staff, funding...

Research officer

I am a hydrologist committed to applying evidence-based science to managing agriculture and the resources on which its future relies. I am part of a small group of professionals who help rural and regional industries...

Paulette S
Project Support Officer

Paulette joined the Department in mid 2017, as an Administration Officer for the former eConnected Grainbelt Project, assisting in administering grant initiatives through the SmartyGrants Program.

She also spent...

Perry Dolling
Development Officer

Perry works within the Farming Systems Innovation Directorate of the Primary Industries Pillar. His focus is to enable innovative farming systems that create wealth and enhance the liveability of regional landscapes and...

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