Kent Novakowski obtained his PhD in Hydrogeology from the University of Waterloo in 1992. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in August of 2000 and was appointed Head of the Department in 2009. Prior to Queen’s, Dr. Novakowski led the Groundwater Contamination Project at Environment Canada’s National Water Research Institute in Burlington, Ontario. Dr. Novakowski is one of only a dozen or so scientists and engineers in North America who specialise in the hydrogeology of fractured rock. He has served on three expert panels and chaired a fourth which was focused on Sustainable Water Well Infrastructure in Ontario.