Dean Miller has 18 years' post graduate experience in environmental consulting. Dean specialises in resource evaluation and management work in freshwater environments with specific areas of expertise in water quality, aquatic ecology, fish passage and integrating ecological principles with engineering design.

Dean undertakes project work in the water, energy, waste, land and transport sectors and for a range of local authority, industry, utility and developer clients throughout New Zealand. Dean’s project experience includes coordination of large scale ecological evaluations, the design and implementation of monitoring and field assessment programmes, assessment of ecological effects for small and large projects affecting aquatic environments and technical review of ecology assessments for regional and local authorities. Dean regularly appears as an expert witness.