Kerry MacQuarrie's Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction has been renewed for a second five-year term, effective July 1. The university will receive $100,000 for each of the five years from the Canada Research Chairs program.
Evaluating and modelling groundwater-surface water interaction are priority areas for Canadian groundwater research. Dr. MacQuarrie’s research focuses on understanding the key processes occurring during groundwater-surface water exchange in rivers and streams, and the development and application of hydraulic, heat transport, and multi-species reactive transport models for addressing groundwater-surface water issues. Examples of issues to be investigated include the assessment of natural and human-induced variability on riverbank filtration water supplies, and the quantification of nutrient loading from groundwater to shallow estuaries.
His CRC profile can be viewed at http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/home_e.asp.
