Trevor Gilbert is a Perth-based environmental and chemical specialist whose work spans the maritime shipping and offshore oil & gas industries. His work over 35 years has involved oil spills, hazardous and noxious substances accidents, environmental monitoring, environmental forensics, contaminated environments and the management of incident response. His experience combines technical assessment with practical field delivery, regulatory interface and contingency planning across Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
He is Director of Spill Response Services for Scientific and Environmental Associates Australia (SEA Australia) which conducts specialist chemical and environmental problem-solving services for private companies, governments, industry and United Nations Agencies.
Over his career he has provided incident response, planning and management as well as scientific and environmental advice in over 40 major well blowouts, oil/chemical spills, dangerous good incidents, maritime accidents, ship groundings, marine spill incident, natural disaster, biosecurity outbreaks and land-based emergencies.
He has also authored and co-authored 112 papers, manuals and book chapters in the international and local scientific literature relating to environmental monitoring and science, hazardous material incidents, petroleum geochemistry, oil/gas exploration, fuel analysis, spatial data decision support systems, pollution response, shipwreck response and environmental pollution risk assessment.