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Harry Jol earned his B.Sc. (1987) and M.Sc. (1989) from Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada) and Ph.D. (1993) from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada). He then was awarded to 2 post-doctoral fellowships – University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellow followed by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) at Simon Fraser University. In 1996, he took a position at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he is presently is an Associate Professor.

During his Master's degree he worked on the Fraser River Delta (south of Vancouver, Canada) conducting a high resolution shallow seismic program in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Canada.

During in his Ph.D. research through to the present he has utilized ground penetrating radar (GPR) in many fields of the earth sciences, particularly geomorphology, sedimentology and more recently into geoarchaeology. He has been to more than 600 sites in North America, Europe and Israel to collect GPR data and has extensive experience in deltaic and coastal environments. Much of his research is collaborative in nature with other researchers and therefore funding has come from various sources ranging from federal to state agencies (United States Geological Survey, Department of Ecology), private industry (eg. oil and gas companies, environmental firms) to academic research institutes. He looks forward to collaborative research and continuing his GPR research program.