Michael Callaghan, PhD, P.Eng. (AB, ON) - Senior Applications Engineer

Dr. Callaghan is a Senior Applications Engineer at Aquanty Inc. He received his Ph.D. (2014) in (Environmental) Geoscience at the University of Calgary, his M.Sc. (2003) in Hydroinformatics and Hydraulic Engineering at Newcastle University in the U.K., and his B.A.Sc. (1999) in Geological Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Mike has over 25 years experience in the geoenvironmental sector, including over 20 years of numerical modelling experience ranging from soil column scale to large river basin scale, spanning diverse applications such as river sedimentation modelling, salt and pesticide leaching to environmental receptors, hydrologic risk assessment for agriculture, regulatory permitting for mine development, and more recently, integrated hydrologic modelling for groundwater supply. Mike has worked nationally and internationally, with extended field positions in Greece and Cuba.

His research at Aquanty has focused on hydrological modeling of flood and drought in the Canadian Prairies for agricultural risk assessment and partitioning of water balance components for development of the Athabasca Oil Sands in the Boreal Plains. Past research activities have included: characterization and modeling of water flow and solute transport in soil in the presenceof preferential flow pathways, such as macropores and fractures; the effects of physical and chemical processes on soil hydraulic conductivity; and, advanced techniques for pore network characterization.