David Blowes

David Blowes is the Program Director of the NSERC-TERRE-NET program, and is the Principal Investigator of the NSERC TERRE CREATE Program. He is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo, and holds the NSERC Canada Research Chair in Groundwater Remediation. He was the Geological Society of America's Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer and the 2004 Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Distinguished Lecturer. His expertise is in the prediction, prevention and remediation of groundwater contamination from mine-wastes and other sources of dissolved metals.