Amanda Malenica is a Masters Student in Hydrogeology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. She has a BSc. From McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, in Earth and Environmental Science. Her undergraduate research focused on nutrients and toxic contaminants from groundwater sources along Lake Simcoe urban shorelines. Her current research focuses on the transport and fate of nitrate in Prince Edward Island’s fractured sedimentary bedrock aquifer.