科技创新

约翰·谢里，美国国家工程院外籍院士，加拿大皇家科学院院士，加拿大圭尔夫大学兼职教授，大学联合会地下水研究主任，G360地下水研究所（加拿大境内高校主导的最大规模地下水研究所）副主任，香港大学名誉教授。曾任加拿大滑铁卢大学地下水科学教员（1971-2006年），并获得该大学杰出名誉教授的荣誉。曾获加拿大、美国和英国科学和专业组织诸多奖项和荣誉，因对地下水知识与技术所做出的全球性贡献，获2016年李光耀水奖（新加坡）及2020年斯德哥尔摩水奖。其研究重点为地下水系统协作性、多学科研究，研究内容涉及未裂隙和裂隙含水层和弱含水层中天然和污染水的化学演化，以及工程地下水监测系统的发展，提升了人们对地下水流和水文地球化学的了解。

John A Cherry, Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently at the University of Guelph, Canada, as an Adjunct Professor, Director of the University Consortium for Field Focused Groundwater Research, and Associate Director of the G360 Institute for Groundwater Research, which is the largest university-based groundwater research institute in Canada. He also holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he was a faculty member in groundwater science (1971-2006), and an Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong. He has received many awards and honours from scientific and professional organizations in Canada, the United States and the UK and most recently was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize (Singapore), 2016, for global contributions to groundwater knowledge and technology. His current researches focus on collaborative, multidisciplinary studies of groundwater systems as they relate to the chemical evolution of natural and contaminated water in unfractured and fractured aquifers and aquitards and on the advancement of engineered groundwater monitoring systems for improved insights about groundwater flow and hydrogeochemistry.