About the Authors
Dr. Jonathan Price is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, examining the hydrology of peat dominated wetlands. His research focus is on restoration of peatland used for peat extraction and peatland creation in post-mined landscapes. He led the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of a groundwater-fed peatland and its watershed in the Athabasca oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, for the reclamation of a mined landscape. Dr. Price has also done pioneering work on contaminant transport in peatlands, including solutes and hydrocarbons. He has supervised over 60 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and authored and coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics including soil-water physics, micrometeorology, water quality, contaminant transport, ecology, and soil development as well as basin scale hydrology of wetlands.
Dr. Colin McCarter is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change at Nipissing University. He completed his PhD in 2016 from the University of Waterloo and held several post-doctoral fellowships, including a NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. McCarter’s research focuses on how the interactions and feedbacks between ecohydrological, biogeochemical, and soil physical processes control the transport of nutrients, carbon, and contaminants in northern landscapes under a changing climate. Dr. McCarter is particularly interested in how the structure of organic wetland soils, like peat, govern water and contaminant flow and the implications for restoring industrially contaminated peatlands.
Dr. William Quinton is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has studied in the Canadian Arctic since 1987 and in the Mackenzie River valley region since 1991. In 1999, he established the Scotty Creek Research Station and since then has led several major research studies in the southern Northwest Territories that focus on the impacts of permafrost thaw on hydrological processes. Dr. Quinton was a Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Hydrology (2005–2015) and played a leading role in developing the Laurier GNWT Partnership Agreement, the Laurier Institute for Water Science, and related initiatives. He also served as the Director of the Cold Regions Research Centre, President of the Canadian Geophysical Union Hydrology Section, National Representative to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and Chief Delegate to the Northern Research Basins Working Group. He has published over 100 journal articles and supervised over 50 graduate students. Close collaborations with Indigenous communities are a central theme of Dr. Quinton’s work.