Beth L. Parker
PhD, LEL
Professor, NSERC Industrial Research Chair - Hydrogeology
College of Engineering, Civil, Environmental, and Water Resources Engineering
Research Areas
- Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
- Groundwater contaminant transport and fate
- In situ remediation of groundwater systems
- Field instrumentation in aquifer and aquitard regimes
- Director of Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute
- Director of The University Consortium
Morwick G360 Groundwater Research 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 6720 Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rock
- ENGG 6760 Groundwater Flow Systems