John Cherry is the Director of the University Consortium for Field-Focused Groundwater Contamination Research, Associate Director of G360 Centre for Applied Groundwater G360–The Centre for Groundwater Research, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Cherry co-authored the textbook Groundwater with R.A. Freeze (1979) and co-edited and co-authored several chapters in the book Dense Chlorinated Solvents and Other DNAPLs in Groundwater.