UCOWR is proud to announce two recipients for the 2000 Warren A. Hall Award.
Dr. Daniel Peter Loucks, Cornell University, and Dr.
Vernon L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois.
Dr. Daniel Peter Loucks
Dr. Loucks obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in
Forestry from Pennsylvania State University, 1954; M.F. from Yale University,
1955; Ph.D. from Cornell University, 1965. Since 1965 he has been on the
faculty of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell
University. In 1976 he was appointed Professor of the Department of
Environmental Engineering in the School where he teaches and directs research
in the application of economic theory and system analysis methods to the
solution of environmental and regional water resources problems. He has
authored numerous articles and book chapters in these subject areas. He served
as Chairman of the Department from 1974 to 1980, and as Associate Dean for
Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering from 1980 to 1981.
During periods of leave from Cornell, Loucks was a Research
Fellow at Harvard University (1968); an Economist at the Development Research
Center of the World Bank (1972-73); a Research Scholar at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (1981-82); and a Visiting Professor at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-78), the University of Colorado
in Boulder (1992), the University of Adelaide in South Australia (1992), the
Aachen University of Technology in Germany (1993 and 1995), the Technical
University of Delft in the Netherlands (1995), and the University of Texas in
Austin (2000). Since 1969, he has served as a consultant to private and
government agencies and various organizations of the United Nations, the World
Bank, and NATO involved in regional water resources development planning in
Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin
America. From 1975 to 1978 he was a consultant to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency participating in the US-USSR exchange program on
environmental protection. Since 1976 he has been a visiting professor in water
resources-environmental systems engineering at the International Institute for
Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands.
Loucks has served on various committees of the National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences, and was a U.S. member of an advisory committee
for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in
Laxenburg, Austria. From 1977 to 1990, he served as a member of the IIASA
liaison committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Secretary of the Army appointed him to US
Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board in 1994. He served as Vice
Chair of the EAB in 1995, as Chair from 1996 to 1998, and received the
Commander's Award for Public Service in 1998.
Loucks was awarded the Huber Research Prize in 1970 and the Julian Hinds Award
in 1986 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was elected to Fellow in
the Society in 1983 and to Honorary member in 1998. In 1975 he received a
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to lecture in Yugoslavia. He has served as chairman
of various committees in professional societies in civil engineering,
geophysical science, and operations research. He is a member of five honorary
societies, including Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi, and serves as an associate
editor and as a member of editorial boards of several professional journals in
the U.S. and in Europe. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
in 1989. He received Distinguished Lecture Awards by the National Research
Council of Taiwan in 1990 and 1999, an EDUCOM Award for software development in
1991, and the Senior U.S. Scientist Research Award from the German Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation in 1992.
Loucks was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1955. He served as an aviator on
active duty until 1959 and subsequently in the Naval Reserve until 1981. From
1979 to 1981 he commanded VR-52, the largest Naval Air Transport Squadron in
the country having detachments at Naval Air Facility, Detroit, MI; Andrews Air
Force Base, MD; and Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, PA. In 1981 he was awarded
the Navy's Commendation Medal by the Secretary of the Navy. He retired as
Captain from the Naval Reserve in 1992.
From 1962-1996 Loucks was a member of the Board of Directors of the Wilderness
Corporation in Mt. Holly, Vermont. He has served as Treasurer and Vice President
of that corporation. From 1978 to 1981 he was a Trustee of the Farm and
Wilderness Foundation in Plymouth, Vermont. He is currently president of the
Forest Home Improvement Association where he lives.