Instructors
and Course Topics
Gareth Owen is the President of
GOwen Environmental Limited and has spent the last 28 years
training other environmental professionals in the discipline of
contaminated and hazardous waste site management. Mr. Owen has managed
over 600 contaminated sites including site and risk assessments,
remedial plan development and expedited site closures for sites
contaminated with hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals,
and radioactive waste. He has worked on and provided technical and/or
managerial support to clients on over 3,700 sites worldwide. He
has managed and provided program and project support on contaminated
site investigations and remediation for soil, water, and sediment
in every jurisdiction and at every level of government in the provinces
and territories of Canada, and advised private and public sector
clients on similar issues worldwide. He has worked with and instructed
most regulatory agencies in Canada responsible for contaminated
and hazardous waste site management.
His
decision to no longer participate in the investigation or the remediation
of contaminated sites as a consultant or contractor, ensures the
provision of sound and unbiased technical and managerial support
to all his clients. It also ensures no conflict of interest with
any environmental consulting or contracting firm providing contaminated
site management services. Mr. Owen's principal responsibilities
have included providing support to government agencies and multinational
corporations in managing large and complex environmental programs
and projects. His principal experience relates to contaminated site
project management and closure as well as environmental program
management. Mr. Owen will provide a detailed overview of Contaminated
and Hazardous Waste Site Management.
Dr.
Ken Howard, University of Toronto, is a certified
and chartered hydrogeologist, with broad experience in all aspects
of groundwater resource evaluation, management and protection. As
Director of the Groundwater Research Group at the University of
Toronto, he has worked on numerous applied projects in Canada, U.K.,
the West Indies, equatorial Africa and Australia. He has published
over 50 articles on topics that range from numerical flow modeling
and contaminant migration to environmental isotopes and borehole
geophysics. Dr. Howard will cover the Principles of Hydrogeology
and will provide an overview of scientific principles Monday evening.
After attending this lecture, the attendee will have an increased
understanding of the physical and chemical processes that determine
how contaminants are transported in the subsurface.
Dr.
Derek Peak is a professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry
at the University of Saskatchewan, where he uses a wide range of
laboratory and molecular-scale techniques to probe soil chemical
processes. Dr. Peak has been a synchrotron user for 20 years and
has served as a member and chair of the Canadian Light Source Users
Advisory Committee. His overall research program focuses on using
synchrotron-based chemical speciation techniques to determine nutrient
and contaminant fate in soils and sediments. Major research themes
include understanding the fate and transport processes that control
phosphate availability in soils, developing sustainable agricultural
development in West Africa, and effectively managing metal and metalloid
affected soils produced as a result of natural resource extraction.
He
will lecture on Soil Chemistry of Hazardous Materials.
Dr.
Grant Carey specializes
in chemical fate and transport, remediation, NAPL behaviour, and
mathematical modelling. He works on both litigation and regulatory
projects throughout North America. Mr. Carey has developed an innovative
visualization method for conducting PFAS source fingerprinting and
redox zone delineation, and has developed an innovative visualization
method for conducting PFAS source fingerprinting and redox zone
delineation, and has developed a proprietary model for simulating
PFAS fate and transport. He has also modelled the first successful
in-situ remediation of PFAS in North America. Mr. Carey has a Ph.D.
in Civil Engineering from the University of Guelph, and is an Adjunct
Research Professor at Carleton University. He is also a founding
member of the PFAS Remediation Research Group, which is an academic-industrial
consortium including the University of Waterloo, Toronto University,
and Carleton University with a focus on the development of innovative
methods for PFAS site characterization and remediation. Mr. Carey
has published or delivered more than 90 technical papers and short
courses. He is currently on two ITRC guidance manual teams (PFAS
and In-Situ Remediation Optimization), and was previously a trainer
for ITRC web seminars on Mass Flux/Mass Discharge, and Remediation
of Contaminated Sediments. Mr. Carey will lecture on Flow and
Transport Modelling Applications at Contaminated Sites. Participants
of this lecture will have increased knowledge of model applications,
model selection, and model development and evaluation.
Patrick
Delaney is the President of DHI in Canada and is involved
in all aspects of DHI's business including consulting services,
software sales, technical support and training. Mr. Delaney actively
participates as a project management and subject matter expert on
projects involving the development and implementation of water models
and real-time operational forecasting systems related to integrated
water resources management, wastewater and stormwater collection
systems, urban and rural flooding, groundwater resoucres management,
and climate change. He has more than 20 years of experience in the
development and application of water modelling tools and technologies
for a variety of disciplines, and he has considerable experience
in managing complex, inter-disciplinary technology development and
water mangement projects. Mr. Delaney combines his technical expertise
with a very practical approach to problem solving and the ability
to communicate technical concepts in a clear and understandable
language. Mr. Delaney is a recognized expert and is a featured instructor
at professional training courses throughout North American and he
has advised many clients working on local, regional, national, and
international projects. Mr. Delaney will be conducting the evening
workshop on Groundwater Modelling.
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