Aquanty Inc., a Waterloo-based water-modelling company co-founded by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth, has been acquired by Rocscience, a Toronto company specializing in 2- and 3-D modelling software for civil, mining and geotechnical engineers.
Founded in 2012 by Professors Forsyth and Ed Sudicky of Waterloo’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, along with Professor René Therrien of Université Laval, Aquanty grew out of years of collaborative research on surface and subsurface water modelling. Professor Forsyth, who served as director of Aquanty from 2012 to 2025, contributed expertise in algorithms to solve partial differential equations and large sparse matrices, mathematical tools that power Aquanty’s water modelling.
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