John Cherry - 50 years of Contaminant Hydrogeology: Evolution of the Science
Channel: The Hydrogeologist Time Capsule
Date: 2019-08-10

In this one hour lecture, discover how contaminant hydrogeology has grown from its earliest beginnings in the mid-1960’s to an advanced domain. This lecture is given by one of the pioneers of the discipline, Prof. John Cherry (Univ. of Guelph, Canada).

Content
✫ 0:00 Introduction
✫ 2:04 1960's - the birth of Contaminant Hydrogeology
✫ 12:58 The paradigm of attenuation capacity
✫ 31:56 Importance of weak transverse dispersion
✫ 48:34 Sewage systems
✫ 51:40 Winnipeg and the tritium mystery
✫ 57:27 Diffusion processes in clays
✫ 59:42 1980's - discovery of chlorinated solvents in groundwater
✫ 1:03:15 Aquitard doesn't leak water, but leaks DNAPL
✫ 1:05:15 The multilevel monitoring system
✫ 1:05:31 The threat of shale gas
✫ 1:07:53 The conventional textbooks are not helpful
✫ 1:08:38 Conclusion
✫ 1:10:27 Discussion with the audience

Recorded on October 30th 2015 in University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Camera: David Vieille
Editing: David Vieille, Iuliia Shirinkina, Sylvain Tissot
Thanks to: Daniel Hunkeler, SITEL, Unine
Sponsors: University of Neuchâtel