Beth Parker, Ph.D

Beth Parker, Ph.DBeth L. Parker, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her current research and consulting activities emphasize field experiments and contaminated site studies of DNAPLs in sandy aquifers, clayey deposits and sedimentary with focus on the effects of diffusion on DNAPL fate, plume attenuation and controls on remediation. Between her M.Sc. Degree in Environmental Engineering from Duke University in 1983 and beginning a Ph.D. program at the University of Waterloo in 1991, she worked for a multinational corporation managing DNAPL site investigation and remediation activities primarily at a large manufacturing facility where chlorinated solvents occur in fractured bedrock. 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 are being used. She has been designing in situ chemical oxidation systems to remediate sandy aquifers and fractured clays and rock since 1993.

Email address: blparker@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca