Aqeela Parker
Representative for Early Career Hydrogeologists
Aqeela is a Project Hydrogeologist and the Business Unit Leader for the Groundwater Monitoring and Management Department at GEOSS South Africa. She holds an MSc in hydrogeology and is currently pursuing a PhD, focusing on sustainable dewatering and managed aquifer recharge schemes for a mine on South Africa’s West Coast. Her expertise lies in determining natural groundwater sources and flow paths using physical and hydrochemical methods. Her key skills include natural groundwater flow path assessments; groundwater monitoring and management; conducting groundwater geophysical surveys (including Airborne Electromagnetic (TDEM) and Ground Resistivity); stable isotope and radioisotope analysis; and basic geochemical modelling.
