Beth Parker

Background

About Beth Parker

Dr. Beth Parker is a hydrogeologist who has made exceptional contributions to the science and practice of Contaminant Hydrogeology, which is the science concerning the occurrence, migration and fate of contamination in the groundwater component of the hydrological cycle. Dr. Parker has achieved strong national and international recognition for her contributions to the science and technologies important to the understanding and remediation of contaminated groundwater. She is the most cited Canadian under the age of 65 for papers concerning groundwater contamination. She is one of the most cited internationally and most frequently invited speakers internationally for presentations about groundwater contamination research. She draws substantial research funds from international sources including the USA, Sweden, China and Brazil and is sought after as a collaborator internationally. Dr. Parker has advanced a particular and original conceptual view concerning groundwater contamination in fractured geologic media and has established the validity of this view by invention and application of a suite of novel and powerful methods to acquire field data for creation and validation of conceptual models.