Meet the research team behind Canada1Water

Aquanty Contributors

  • Dr. Steve Frey

    Dr. Frey is a senior scientist at Aquanty Inc, hydrologic modelling lead on C1W and co-principal investigator along with Dr. Hazen Russell of the GSC.

  • Dr. Andre R Erler

    Dr. Erler is the senior climate scientist at Aquanty Inc.

  • Dr. Ed Sudicky

    Dr. Sudicky is a principal (and founder) of Aquanty Inc. and a full professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo (on the faculty since 1985).

  • Dr. Omar Khader

    Dr. Khader is a senior applications engineer at Aquanty.

  • Eric Kessel

    Eric Kessel is a hydrogeologist at Aquanty Inc.

  • Tyler Herrington

    Tyler is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo and climatology intern at Aquanty.

  • Amanda Taylor

    Amanda Taylor is a geological modeller with Aquanty Inc.

  • Brayden McNeill

    Brayden McNeill is the technical sales and marketing lead with Aquanty Inc.

Government of Canada Contributors

  • Dr. Hazen Russell

    Dr. Russell is a sedimentologist with the Geological Survey of Canada and is co-principal investigator of C1W alongside Dr. Steve Frey of Aquanty.

  • Dr. Boyan Brodaric

    Dr. Brodaric is a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada

  • Dr. Melissa Bunn

    Dr. Bunn is a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada

  • Dr. John Crowley

    Dr. Crowley is a senior geodetic engineer with Natural Resources Canada.

  • Heather MacDonald

    Heather MacDonald is an interdisciplinary social scientist at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC), Canadian Forest Service in Sault Ste. Marie.

  • Dan McKenney

    Dr. McKenney is the director of integrative ecology and economics at the Canadian Forestry Service.

  • Dr. Shusen Wang

    Shusen Wang is a senior research scientist at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing.

  • Dr. Susan Preston

    Susan Preston, Ph.D. is Manager of National Biodiversity Policy at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

  • Dr. Xiaoyuan Geng

    Dr. Geng is the manager and head scientist of Canadian Soil Information Service (CanSIS), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

  • Dr. David Lapen

    Dr. Lapen is a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and is the AAFC project lead for Canada 1 Water.

  • Eric Boisvert

    Mr. Boisvert is the groundwater geoscience program manager at the Geological Survey of Canada.

Academic Contributors

  • Dr. Mani Mahdinia

    Dr. Mahdinia is a postdoctoral scientist at Aquanty and University of Toronto's physics department.

  • Dr. Mohsen Soltani

    Dr. Soltani is a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, where he is working on snow-land-climate modelling.