David Major

Affiliation

Savron

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Biography

David Major, Ph.D., BCES, is a Senior Consultant at Geosyntec/Savron in Cambridge, Ontario. David has developed and commercialized various remediation technologies with Canadian, U.K., and U.S. Universities. He has been a Principal/Co-Investigator or Project Manager for over 10 SERDP/ESTCP projects. He was awarded the SERDP 2021 Project of the Year Award for Environmental Restoration for his work on the smoldering treatment of PFAS. David served on the U.S. EPA Expert Panel on DNAPL Remediation (The DNAPL Remediation Challenge: Is There a Case for Source Depletion) and the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium. He has received several awards, including the University of Waterloo Faculty of Science Alumni of Honour Award (2007) in recognition of his professional accomplishments; Space Hall of Fame® (2007) for helping NASA commercialize “Products from Space Benefiting Planet Earth”; ASTM C.A. Hogentogler Award (2015) and ICE Telford Premium (2016) awards for papers on ground improvement technology. David led R&D programs recognized for national excellence in sustained and innovative academic-industrial collaboration with the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada Synergy Award 2009 and 2018. He also led teams that received the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists Superior Achievement Award for scaling up laboratory studies to field-scale demonstrations of smoldering treatment to treat hydrocarbons (2017) and PFAS (2024).