Maidment Receives 2011 Quentin Martin Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award
David Maidment
Professor
David R. Maidment, Professor in environmental and water resources engineering, is a co-recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2011 Quentin Martin Best Practice-Oriented Paper for the paper Linking GIS, Hydraulic Modeling and Tabu Search for Optimizing a Water Level-Monitoring Network in South Florida. The paper was co-authored with Dr. Sergio Martinez and Dr. Venkatesh Merwade, former doctoral students of Dr. Maidment, and was published in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management in 2010 (Vol. 136). The paper is based on Dr. Martinez' doctoral dissertation.
Dr. Martinez is a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Department at the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes in Mexico. Dr. Merwade is on the faculty of the Purdue University Civil Engineering Department.
The award honors the memory of the late Dr. Quentin Martin, an innovative and successful water resource planner, previous editor of the ASCE JWRPM and a frequent contributor to ASCE water resource planning and management committees, conferences, and publications. The award is presented annually to the authors of the outstanding practice-oriented paper in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (JWRPM).
The co-authors were honored at the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) annual specialty conference held in Palm Springs, California in May, 2011.
For more information, contact: Linda Keyte.
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