Dr Julia Jasonsmith is an environmental chemist who works on the fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment, with more than two decades of experience in the pollution and contamination sector. She runs a company, Murrang Earth Sciences, that delivers advisory and assessment services. Julia works with federal, state, and local government, big businesses, small businesses, and individuals. She also acts as an expert witness. Julia is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society, where she supervises postgraduate research and gives lectures to undergraduate students. She also runs a Substack site on the pollution crisis.

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Julia attained degrees at four universities in three countries, with three theses delivered on different aspects of chemicals in the environment. Her undergraduate science degree in ecology was from the University of Otago, in New Zealand, with a year of this degree undertaken at Sweden’s Uppsala University. It was while at Uppsala she completed her first thesis on the pollution of a Swedish lake by a truck manufacturer. She then moved to the University of Canberra, in Australia, completing a Bachelor of Applied Science Honours degree in environmental chemistry, focused on contamination within a coal power plant cooling reservoir. Her last thesis was completed for a PhD in Earth Sciences at the Australian National University and focused on sources of natural but detrimental chemicals — that is salinity — in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales. Julia is a current Certified Environmental Practitioner and has previously held Certified Professional Soil Scientist status.

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Julia is based in Ngunnawal Country and the capital city of Australia, Canberra.