Course Instructors:

John A. Cherry, Ph.D., Ph.D., is a Professor and holder of the Chair in Contaminant Hydrogeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo. 

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

David B. McWhorter, Ph.D., was a Professor of Agricultural and Chemical Engineering at Colorado State University from 1970 to 1999, and is currently an independent consultant and Professor Emeritus at CSU. 

Peeter Pehme, M.SC., is a Research Associate and a PhD. candidate at the University of Waterloo. He is also the senior geophysicist and an Associate at Dillon Consulting Limited. 

Course Affiliation

The principal lecturers in this course are major participants in a large project (The University Consortium Solvents-in-Groundwater Research Program) initiated in 1988. This program, focusing on DNAPLs in fractured media, is funded by six major corporations with additional contributions to fractured media research from various government agencies. Cherry and Parker currently hold a major research grant from the Canadian Government for research on chlorinated solvents in fractured rock and conduct this research at more than 12 research sites across North America.