Ms Julie Smith coordinates a team of staff who conduct accurate analysis.

Ms Julie Smith: providing analytical services

Ms Julie Smith manages the Analytical Services in Adelaide, South Australia, providing environmental chemical analysis in soils, waters and plants.

• 13 July 2009 | Updated 16 August 2012

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications

Current activities

Ms Julie Smith leads the Analytical Services Unit located in Adelaide, providing environmental analysis to CSIRO researchers and their collaborators on a fee-for-service basis.

As Manager, she coordinates a team of staff who conduct accurate analysis of soils, waters and plants for nutrients, heavy metals, carbon and soil physical properties.

Background

Ms Smith joined CSIRO in 1994 researching heavy metal and pesticide contaminated soils. 

In 2002 she become an AusAID Youth Ambassador for Development based in the Kingdom of Tonga.

On her return to Australia in 2004 she worked as an environmental chemist at the Environmental Protection Agency in Victoria for three years before returning to Adelaide.

In 2008 she returned to CSIRO taking over the management of the Analytical Services Unit.

Academic qualifications

Ms Smith was awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science, with Honours, Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1993
• Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, in 2005.

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