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Career Achievement Award Winners

 

The California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum’s Career Achievement Award is given annually to individuals for significant contributions over their career in developing, using or promoting computer modeling to analyze California’s water-related problems. The CWEMF Career Achievement Award is presented each winter at the CWEMF’s Annual Meeting, which is held at the Asilomar Conference grounds, near Monterey, California.

Year

Award Winner

2008
LloydPeterson

Lloyd Peterson - In recognition of his significant contributions during his 32 years in the water resources field and in his perseverance in fostering collaboration between the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in the development, application, and improvement of CalSim-II, in refining the San Joaquin River water quality simulation in CalSim-II, and in promoting open modeling practices and, thereby, improving public acceptance of CalSim-II..     Award Presentation pdf01

2007
DarrylDavis

Darryl W. Davis - In recognition of his significant contributions during his 41 years in the water resources field, including 36 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center and the last 16 as its Director. As Director, he directed the development and dissemination of the Hydrologic Engineering Center's state-of-the-art public domain models for water resources planning in California and the rest of the nation. Award Presentation pdf01

2006
GeorgeBarnes

George Barnes, Jr. -  In recognition of his significant contributions during his 35 years in the water resources field, including 11 years as Chief of the California Department of Water Resources’ Modeling Support Branch where he directed the development and application of statewide operations, hydrodynamic and water quality models. The models have provided key information in support of numerous studies, including the California Water Plan, Bay-Delta Hearings and CALFED Alternatives. Award Presentation pdf01

2005
MauryRoos

Maury Roos - In recognition of his significant contributions during his 47 years in the water resources field, including 15 years as Chief State Hydrologist, and in developing the original joint hydrology that included the formulation of the Consumptive Use and Depletion Analysis Models. The models have provided the foundational hydrology for the Coordinated Operations Agreement and water resources planning for four decades.

2004

Lyle Hoag - In recognition of his significant contributions during his 50 years in the water resources field and in promoting computer modeling to analyze California’s water-related problems including the founding of the Bay-Delta Modeling Forum, which is the predecessor to the CWEMF.

CWEMF Career Achievement Award Nomination Requirements

Nominations for the 2009 CWEMF Career Achievement Award are due by January 16, 2009. Nominations should be sent to cwemf@cwemf.org and should consist of a:

  1. Letter of nomination clearly identifying the nominee and nominator;
  2. Brief statement describing the nominee’s modeling contributions;
  3. Statement addressing the level of acceptance of the contributions among various parties;
  4. Statement describing, in moderate detail, how the contributions address the award criteria; and
  5. Short list of any publications relevant to the nomination.