1/31/2012
Marcelo García, the Chester & Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering, has been selected by the Environmental Water Resources Institute to receive the 2012 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award.
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Marcelo García, the Chester & Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering, has been selected by the Environmental Water Resources Institute to receive the 2012 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award.
García, who directs the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory at Illinois, is a leader in the field of river mechanics, sediment transport, sedimentation engineering and environmental hydraulics. He is best known for his research in sediment entrainment from riverbeds, flow and transport in vegetated channels, the mechanics of oceanic turbidity currents, and the dynamics of mudflows in mountain areas. His research has been funded at the Federal level by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
At the state level, García has received support from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC), the Illinois Water Resources Center, the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program and the Sanitary District of Decatur, Illinois.
The award will be presented during the Hydraulic Measurement and Experimental Methods Conference, Aug. 14, in Snowbird, Utah.
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Contact: Marcelo García, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 217/244-4484.
Writer: Celeste Arbogast Bragorgos, director of communications, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 217/333-6955.
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