Course Instructor:  John A. Cherry, Ph.D.

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.

For his contributions to the study of groundwater contamination, he has received awards from professional organizations in the United States, Canada and Britain.

He began research on contaminants in fractured clayey aquitards in 1968 and, since 1978, his studies have focused on field aspects of DNAPLs in fractured rocks and clayey aquitards. He is co-editor of the book "Chlorinated Solvents and other DNAPLs in Groundwater" (1996).

He has consulted widely on DNAPL issues, and has served on expert and advisory panels for both the corporate and public sectors.

He holds patents for technologies for site monitoring, emphasizing multilevel monitoring approaches, and for remediation. He has been the director of the University Consortium Solvents-In-Groundwater Research Program since 1988.