Course Instructor:  Beth L. Parker, Ph.D.

Beth L. Parker, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Parker has more than 20 years of experience as a groundwater professional working at industrial sites managing subsurface contamination issues. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., she worked for more than five years for a Fortune 100 corporation in New York State managing DNAPL site investigation and remediation activities at a large manufacturing facility where chlorinated solvents occur in fractured bedrock.

Her current research and consulting activities emphasize field and laboratory studies of DNAPLs in sedimentary rocks and clayey deposits with focus on the effects of matrix diffusion on DNAPL fate, plume attenuation and controls on remediation.

She is currently involved in research and technology demonstration projects at Superfund sites and RCRA facilities in the United States where innovative approaches to site characterization using rock core analysis and multilevel systems and remediation are being evaluated, including in situ oxidation of chlorinated solvents.