Dr. Edward A. Sudicky, PhD, P.Eng, FCAE, FRSC

Dr. Sudicky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo (on the faculty since 1985), and is a Principal of Aquanty Inc. He received his B.A.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering (1977), and M.Sc. (1979) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Earth Sciences, all at the University of Waterloo. He is the recipient of a number of international awards and honors for his research contributions that include the National Ground Water Association Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer (1994) and M. King Hubbert Award (2007), The Geological Society of America O.E. Meinzer Award (1999), and The American Geophysical Union Hydrology Award (2002). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America.

What is your role in the C1W project?

My primary role in the project is the general overview of the construction of the HydroGeoSphere models and their performance in terms of numerical efficiency and skill.

What benefits do you think C1W will bring to Canada/Canadians?

The C1W project will for the first time provide a scientifically rigorous platform allowing the assessment of climate change impacts on surface and groundwater resources over the entire Canadian landscape. By disseminating the results using a user-friendly web-based portal, the project will aid policy makers, water managers and individual Canadians alike. An extension towards implementing real-time forecasting within the HGSRT platform at local and regional scales will be particularly useful in proactively planning for imminent extreme weather events and their effects on the entire hydrologic regime.