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約翰·謝里，美國國家工程院外籍院士，加拿大皇家科學院院士，加拿大圭爾夫大學兼職教授，大學聯合會地下水研究主任，G360地下水研究所（加拿大境內高校主導的最大規模地下水研究所）副主任，香港大學名譽教授。曾任加拿大滑鐵盧大學地下水科學教員（1971-2006年），并獲得該大學杰出名譽教授的榮譽。曾獲加拿大、美國和英國科學和專業組織諸多獎項和榮譽，因對地下水知識與技術所做出的全球性貢獻，獲2016年李光耀水獎（新加坡）及2020年斯德哥爾摩水獎。其研究重點為地下水系統協作性、多學科研究，研究內容涉及未裂隙和裂隙含水層和弱含水層中天然和污染水的化學演化，以及工程地下水監測系統的發展，提升了人們對地下水流和水文地球化學的了解。

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.