School of Environment and Sustainability

Research Area(s)

  • Groundwater and energy
  • Deep groundwater systems
  • Hydrogeochemistry
  • Groundwater sustainability

Academic Credentials

  • Ph.D. (Manitoba)
  • B.Sc. (Waterloo)

Selected Publications

  • Gleeson, T., Cuthbert, M., Ferguson, G. and Perrone, D. 2020. Global groundwater sustainability, resources and systems in the Anthropocene. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 48:17.1–17.33.
  • Condon, L., Markovich, K., Kelleher, C. McDonnell, J., Ferguson, G. and McIntosh, J.C. 2020. Where is the bottom of a watershed? Water Resources Research 56, e2019WR026010.
  • McIntosh, J.C. and Ferguson, G. Issue Paper. Conventional Oil: The Forgotten Part of the Water-Energy Nexus. 2019. Groundwater 57: 659-667.
  • Ferguson, G., McIntosh, J.C., Perrone, D. and Jasechko, S., 2018. Competition for shrinking window of low salinity groundwater. Environmental Research Letters 13: 114013. 
  • Ferguson, G., McIntosh, J.C., Grasby, S. E., Hendry, M.J., Jasechko, S., Lindsay, M.B.J., & Luijendijk, E. 2018. The persistence of brines in sedimentary basins. Geophysical Research Letters 45: 4851–4858.