Dr. Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie, P.Eng.
Professor of Civil Engineering
Science Director, Canadian Rivers Institute
Office: Room HB-5, Head Hall, Fredericton Campus, University of New Brunswick
Phone: (506) 453-5121
Fax: (506) 453-3568
Email: ktm@unb.ca
Specialty: Groundwater-surface water interactions, contaminant hydrogeology, mathematical modelling, hydrology.
Education:
BScE (Civil Engineering), University of New Brunswick
MSc (Earth Science - Hydrogeology), University of Waterloo
PhD (Earth Science - Hydrogeology), University of Waterloo
Courses Developed/Presented at UNB:
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Hydrology, Team Design, Engineering Hydrogeology, Contaminant Hydrogeology, Numerical Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport.
Current Research Interests:
- the use of hydraulic, thermal, and geochemical information to understand groundwater-surface water interactions
- physical and chemical processes related to the transport and fate of subsurface contaminants, especially reactive solutes
- mathematical modeling of groundwater flow, and solute and heat transport
- multicomponent reactive transport modeling of groundwater quality
- river bank filtration for safe drinking water supply
- groundwater-derived nitrogen loading to eutrophication sensitive estuaries
- far-field hydrogeochemical aspects of deep waste disposal
- impacts of climate change on groundwater
Selected Recent Publications:
Danielescu, S., and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, published online January 2013, Nitrogen and oxygen isotopes in nitrate in the groundwater and surface water discharge from two rural catchments: implications for nitrogen loading to coastal waters, Biogeochemistry.
Kurylyk, B.L., and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, 2013, The uncertainty associated with estimating future groundwater recharge: A summary of recent research and an example from a small unconfined aquifer in a northern humid-continental climate, 492, 244-253, J. Hydrology.
Foucher, D., H. Hintelmann, T.A. Al, and K.T. MacQuarrie, 2013, Mercury isotope fractionation in waters and sediments of the Murray Brook mine watershed (New Brunswick, Canada): Tracing mercury contamination and transformation, Chemical Geology, 336, 87-95.
Danielescu, S., and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, 2011, Nitrogen loadings to two small estuaries, Prince Edward Island, Canada: a 2-year investigation of precipitation, surface water and groundwater contributions, Hydrological Processes, 25(6), 945-957.
Mayer, K.U., and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, 2010, Solution of the MoMaS reactive transport benchmark with MIN3P - Model formulation and simulation results, Computational Geosciences, 14(3), 405-419.
MacQuarrie, K.T.B., K.U. Mayer, B. Jin, and S.M. Spiessl, 2010, The importance of conceptual models in the reactive transport simulation of oxygen ingress in sparsely fractured crystalline rock, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 112(1-4), 64-76.
Bruce, J.P., W. Cunningham, A. Freeze, R. Gillham, S. Gordon, S. Holysh, S. Hrudey, W. Logan, K. MacQuarrie, P. Muldoon, L. Nowlan, J. Pomeroy, S. Renzetti, B. Sherwood Lollar, and R. Therrien, 2009, The Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Canada, Council of Canadian Academies, Ottawa, ISBN 978-1-926558-11-0.
Pooley, K.E., M. Blessing, T.C. Schmidt, S.B. Haderlein, K.T.B. MacQuarrie, and H. Prommer, 2009, Aerobic biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes in a fractured bedrock aquifer: quantitative assessment by compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) and reactive transport modeling, Environmental Science and Technology, 43(19), 7458-7464.
Danielescu, S., K.T.B. MacQuarrie, and R.N. Faux, 2009, The integration of thermal infrared imaging, discharge measurements and numerical simulation to quantify the relative contributions of freshwater inflows to small estuaries in Atlantic Canada, 23(20), 2847-2859, Hydrological Processes.
Blessent, D., R. Therrien, and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, 2009, Coupling geological and numerical models to simulate groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured media, 35(9), 1897-1906, Computers & Geosciences.
MacQuarrie, K.T.B., and T.A. Al, 2008, The influence of seasonal temperature variation and other factors on the occurrence of dissolved manganese during river bank filtration, in Groundwater Quality: Securing Groundwater Quality in Urban and Industrial Environments, M.G. Trefry (ed), International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 324, 467-474.
Spiessl, S.M., K.T.B. MacQuarrie, and K.U. Mayer, 2008, Identification of key parameters controlling dissolved oxygen migration and attenuation in fractured crystalline rocks, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 95(3-4), 141-153.
Goldschneider, A.A., K.A. Haralampides, and K.T.B. MacQuarrie, 2007, River sediment and flow characteristics near a bank filtration water supply: Implications for riverbed clogging, Journal of Hydrology, 344(1-2), 55-69.
Detailed images of two cool-water discharges entering an estuary in Prince Edward Island
(Canada). The left image is an aerial photograph and the right is a thermal infrared
image collected from an aircraft flying at an altitude of 900 m. Location 19 is a small
stream which has an average annual discharge of 3.8 litres/sec, while location 20 is a
much cooler groundwater spring that discharges approximately 2.5 litres/sec. From:
Danielescu et al. (2009).
Recent Research Funding provided by:
- NSERC (Discovery, Strategic, and Collaborative Research and Development Grants), Canadian Water Network, Canada Research Chairs program, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions Association (ACASA), City of Fredericton, City of North Battleford, New Brunswick Department of Environment
