Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Peter Knappett graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Earth Sciences undergraduate program in 2001. He completed his masters in Civil Engineering at UW on virus and bacteria transport through saturated sand aquifers and his Ph.D. from University of Tennessee where he carried out field research on fecal contamination of drinking water in rural Bangladesh. In 2010 he went to a post-doc at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Health in Munich, Germany developing models describing the movement of water, contaminants and nutrients in an indoor aquifer as part of larger project studying the response of a groundwater ecosystem to industrial contamination.