Professor, NSERC Industrial Research Chair - Hydrogeology
Email:
bparker@uoguelph.ca
Phone number:
(519) 824-4120 Ext.53642
Office:
School of Engineering, Room: 3503
Website links:
Beth L. Parker, PhD, LEL
Research Interests
- Groundwater contaminant transport and fate
- In situ remediation of groundwater systems
- Field instrumentation in aquifer and aquitard regimes
- G360 Institute for Groundwater Research
- The University Consortium
The G360 Institute Thrusts
- Bedrock groundwater resource characterization and monitoring;
- Source water protection, water resource management, and risk analysis;
- Groundwater contaminant plume transport and fate in heterogeneous sand and gravel aquifers, fractured rock; and clayey aquitards, process evaluation, and contaminant plume co-mingling and internal architecture;
- DNAPL source zone evolution and effects on plume behavior in fractured sedimentary rock;
- Aquitard integrity for source water protection and waste isolation;
- Innovative high resolution discrete fracture network field methodology for site characterization, monitoring and process-based predictive modeling;
- Organic and inorganic contaminants, pathogens, bacteria, and viruses;
- High resolution data acquisition, storage and analysis methods for numerical models.
Graduate Courses
- ENGG 6790 - Groundwater Contamination in Fractured Media
- ENGG 6910 - Acquitards: Groundwater Resource Protection and Waste Management