John Gemmill
John Gemmill is a surfer, scuba diver and former Chemical Engineer, he has a long term love affair with the marine environment, complemented by an intimate understanding of scientific process. John Gemmill is well respected amongst community groups concerned with the marine environment as a thoughtful advocate for both practical and economical environmental reform resulting in better outcomes for the marine environment. Since 2012, John founded the Clean Ocean Foundation as a national body respected as an honest broker to both the environmental community and governmental organisations concerned with outfalls. He sees the National Outfall Database as a cost effective and unique opportunity to unite scientific, statutory and community groups in cooperative approach to produce the best outcomes for marine environment in relation to Australia’s outfalls based on rigorous scientific research.
