Dick Jackson was granted his PhD by the University of Waterloo in hydrogeology, where he is now an Adjunct Professor. He joined the Canadian Government in 1975 and, in 1986, established the Ground-Water Contamination Project at the National Water Research Institute. He joined INTERA in Texas in 1989, where his team developed and applied surfactant-flooding EOR methods. He returned to Canada in 2006 as task leader for geochemistry & petrophysics in characterizing sedimentary rocks beneath southwestern Ontario for nuclear-waste disposal. He retired in 2017 and became a Geofirma Fellow. His textbook, Earth Science for Civil & Environmental Engineers, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. In 2008, he received the Geoenvironmental Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society. In 2013, he received the Farvolden Award, from the CGS and Canadian Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists. Since 2023, he has advised the Canadian Federal Government on prospective CO2 storage reservoirs in Ontario and in eastern Canada and organized 5 CCS workshops at uWaterloo.
