Our Team

Waterline was formed by three senior hydrogeologists: Steve Foley, M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo., Jamie Wills, M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo., and Darren David, M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo. The principals of Waterline have over 65 years of combined hydrogeological experience focused primarily on resource-based, physical hydrogeology projects.

Waterline also employs a number of other hydrogeologists, technicians, and data management and communications specialists that assist in data collection and reporting. Short biographies of our senior staff members are included below.

Our Offices

Waterline has offices in:

• Calgary, Alberta

• Nanaimo, British Columbia, and

• Victoria, British Columbia.

Alberta

Calgary Office

Jamie Wills, M.Sc., P.Geol (AB), P.Geo. (B.C.) – President and Principal Hydrogeologist

Mr. Wills has over 21 years of related experience in the field of hydrogeology.  He has developed and managed numerous water resource and contaminant hydrogeology projects in Western Canada and internationally. Mr. Wills has extensive experience on large-scale, basin-type hydrogeology projects and worked as the hydrogeology discipline lead for the preparation of baseline and EIAs, including completing all aspects of field data collection (design of overall hydrogeology programs for EIA due diligence, monitoring and water source well design, installation and testing, injectivity tests for Directive 051 disposal wells, numerical modeling, etc). Mr. Wills has chaired, prepared and presented at numerous technical and lay conferences and public presentations over the last number of years, has provided expert witness testimony at regulatory hearings. Mr. Wills is a Past-President of the Canadian chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.

Steven Foley, M.Sc., M.Sc., P.Geol. (AB), P.Geo. (B.C.) – VP Operations and Principal Hydrogeologist

Mr. Foley is a hydrogeologist with 25 years experience in the groundwater sciences and petroleum exploration. Steve specializes in water resource management, and has been responsible for the exploration and development of numerous groundwater supplies for oil pool injection in Canada. Mr. Foley has extensive experienced in basin-scale hydrogeology assessments, many of which were completed for oil and gas and mining industries projects as well as industrial and municipal developments. Mr. Foley is experienced with highly diversified drilling technologies, and has been involved in large scale hydraulic fracturing programs designed to enhance production from water-source wells. Mr. Foley served as a senior technical resource on the hydrogeological component of the baseline and EIA for several large-scale oil sand and mining projects.  As a principal of Waterline, Mr. Foley is responsible for all aspects of environmental hydrogeology, including basin studies, site characterization and contaminant assessment and cleanup, industrial water supplies, construction and mine dewatering, numerical analysis, project management and technical review.

Andrzej Slawinski, Ph.D., P.Geol. (AB), P.Geo. (B.C.) – Chief Technical Officer and Principal Hydrogeologist

Dr. Slawinski has been involved in numerous hydrogeology studies in Canada, overseas, and earlier in his native Poland. Dr. Slawinski brings over 45 years of hydrogeological expertise to Waterline and his projects/clients. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Slawinski has worked on various hydrogeological aspects of a number of established projects/clients, including CNRL, Husky, Suncor, Syncrude, Petro-Canada, Esso OSLO, Husky, Deer Creek, Albian Sands, etc. Dr. Slawinski’s responsibilities have included preparation of environmental impact studies, investigating the long-term effects of oil and gas development in regards to local and regional hydrogeological regimes, preparation of baseline studies to evaluate and/or mitigate the environmental impacts; and managing the regulatory compliance groundwater aspect of water and soil quality monitoring. Dr. Slawinski has been involved in planning dewatering strategies, aquifer testing, water well design, installation of various types of piezometers, monitoring dewatering progress, investigation of groundwater chemistry, and cost estimating for budgetary purposes.

Eric Pringle, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. – Senior Hydrogeological Engineer

Eric Pringle has B.A.Sc., and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Waterloo, and over 20 years of environmental and hydrogeology consulting experience.  His project experience includes: environmental site assessment, environmental impact assessment, routine compliance or diligence based monitoring programs, contaminant fate and transport modelling, natural attenuation assessments, landfill siting, landfill operation and design, remedial design and remedial implementation.  Physical hydrogeology projects that Eric has contributed include: aquifer testing and evaluation, well performance testing, municipal well head protection, well capture delineation, as well as analytical and numeric modelling of groundwater flow. Eric has contributed to projects dealing with a wide variety of contaminants or contaminant sources, such as: upstream petrochemical products and wastes, pulp and paper mill wastes, municipal waste, gasoline, diesel, heavy fuels, pesticides, herbicides, aromatic organics, chlorinated organic solvents, ketones, and phthalate esters.  Remediation and control projects that Eric has been involved with include: containment well testing and optimisation at landfills and industrial sites, horizontal groundwater collector trenches, soil vapour extraction, air sparging, bio-sparging, multiphase extraction, groundwater depression and LNAPL skimming, as well as soil excavation and treatment or disposal.

Jan Michaelian, B.Sc., P.Geol. (AB), P.Geo. (SK) – Senior Hydrogeologist

Jan Michaelian has over 20 years of environmental consulting experience, primarily dealing with contaminant issues in the upstream oil and gas industry. His experience includes Phase I and II environmental site assessment, soil and groundwater monitoring, soil and groundwater remediation, preliminary site suitability assessment, liability assessment, environmental impact assessment (hydrogeological components), and expert witness testimony. Jan has extensive experience with the regulatory environment in Alberta, including the use of Tier 1 and Tier 2 soil and groundwater remediation guidelines and the subsoil salinity tool. Project experience in Alberta includes: implementing soil and groundwater monitoring programs for EPEA approvals (including SAGD facilities); preparing liability assessments for ERCB Licensee Liability Rating programs; developing conceptual site models upon which to base qualitative risk assessment; and preparing Industrial Wastewater and Industrial Runoff reports for EPEA approval requirements. Jan has also groundwater resource experience, including the identification of potential aquifers to support oilfield drilling and well completion needs and identifying groundwater resources requiring protection from such activities.

British Columbia

Nanaimo Office

Darren David, M.Sc., P.Geol. (AB), P.Geo. (B.C.) – VP Operations and Principal Hydrogeologist

Mr. David has been involved with groundwater exploration and aquifer evaluation studies in Canada, United States, Mexico, and South America for the last 23 years. He has been responsible for managing projects and supervising field operations relating to testing and evaluating domestic and industrial wells used for municipal water supply, power generating stations, recreational facilities, enhanced oil recovery projects, construction dewatering, and mine dewatering at metal and coal mines in both Canada and the United States. Mr. David has been involved in a number of groundwater and soil remediation projects relating to organic and inorganic compounds. His remediation experience is primarily associated with conventional excavation and disposal operations, pump and treat, vapour extraction, cut-off trenches and effluent collection and treatment, and waste cover technologies. His responsibilities involved evaluation and selection of remedial/mitigation strategies, risk assessment, and various aspects of fieldwork associated with investigation, implementation, and project management.

Shelley Bayne, M.Sc., P.Geo. (B.C.), Senior Hydrogeologist

Shelley Bayne is a senior hydrogeologist with Waterline Resources's Nanaimo office. She received her M.Sc. in Hydrogeology and Groundwater Chemistry from the University of Reading in England.  Shelley has practiced in British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon for over 12 years and her project experience includes aquifer characterization, groundwater resource evaluation, vulnerability mapping, environmental impact assessment and groundwater/ contaminant fate and transport modelling. She has lead numerous hydrogeological studies involving water supply (well completion, pump test design and analysis, safe yield assessment, water quality evaluation, well performance testing, maintenance and rehabilitation), groundwater under the influence of surface water (GUDI), source water protection planning, well capture zone analysis and water source approvals.  Shelley has also contributed to various investigations and monitoring programs for in-ground stormwater and wastewater disposal for property developments, a wide range of contaminated sites and solid waste and selected waste landfill facilities.

Victoria Office

David van Everdingen, Ph.D., P.Geo. (B.C.), P.Geol. (AB) – Senior Hydrogeologist

Dr. van Everdingen  is a senior hydrogeologist with Waterline Resources. Dr. van Everdingen has 20 years of academic, consulting and government experience in hydrogeology. His background includes water resources studies, monitoring shallow groundwater at a geologic storage site, contaminant hydrogeology, site characterization and remediation, landfill related hydrogeology, (industrial) waste characterization and bioreactor technologies and, paleo-hydrogeology of mid-ocean ridge related crustal rocks. Dr. van Everdingen received his doctorate in earth sciences from Memorial University and his M.Sc. in hydrogeology from University of Waterloo. Prior to joining Waterline he worked as a research hydrogeologist at the Alberta research Council and was the hydrogeology lead at the City of Calgary. His principal areas of expertise are in characterization, monitoring and assessment of local and regional groundwater flow systems.