Ken W.F. Howard MSc, PhD, PHG, CGeol FGS Environmental Earth Sciences
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Ken W.F. Howard MSc, PhD, PHG, CGeol FGS Environmental Earth Sciences
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Office: S534, Telephone: 416-287-7233, Fax: 416-287-7279
gwater@scar.utoronto.ca
Ken Howard is also cross-appointed to the Institute
for Environmental Studies and
the Department
of Geology
| Ken Howard is a hydrogeologist, certified by the American
Institute of Hydrology and chartered by the British Geological Society,
with experience in all aspects of groundwater resource evaluation, management
and protection. He is also Chair of the International Association of Hydrogeologists
(IAH) Commission on Groundwater
in Urban Areas (IAHCGUA), an Associate of the Centre for Research in Earth
and Space Technology (CRESTech), and
Director of the Groundwater
Research Group at the University of Toronto. He has worked on numerous
applied projects in eastern Canada, U.K., the West Indies, Australia and
equatorial Africa, publishing articles on topics that range from numerical
flow modeling and contaminant migration to environmental isotopes and borehole
geophysics. In much of this work, he has focussed special attention on
point and non-point sources of groundwater contamination and on the sub-surface
transport and modeling of both reactive and non-reactive groundwater constituents.
Since 1983, Ken Howard has become increasingly involved
in multi-disciplinary environmental impact problems, notably in Quaternary
sediments and weathered bedrock aquifers. In southern Ontario, much of
his regional scale research has involved the Oak Ridges Moraine and the
Metropolitan Toronto and Region Watershed. His special interests
include the impacts of urban development on the quantity and quality of
shallow groundwater, particularly where these impacts involve landfilling,
road salts and septic systems. As a result of this research, he has developed
a reputation for providing sound, impartial hydrogeological advice to planners,
developers, governments and concerned citizens alike.
Overseas, regional projects have included the long-term
sustainability of well yields in bedrock aquifers of Uganda, the use of
fossil groundwaters in the Sahel of Mali and Niger as a means of reducing
desertification, and the origin of saline lakes in southeastern Australia.
He has also carried out considerable research on the intrusion of saline
groundwater into karstic carbonates of the Clarendon Plains, Jamaica and
beneath Pacific atolls.
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