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SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

[held 17 offices and served on 20 national/international panels, 40 professional committees, 25 consulting Projects, and 4 community groups]

2. Services to Professional Societies: Welcome

OFFICES HELD AT NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

[17 Offices]

1. President, Louisiana Section, American Institute of Hydrology, from l987 to 1992.


2. Vice Chairman, Crop Water Use Committee, U.S. Committee on ICID, 1988-1995.


3. Vice President, Indian Association of Hydrologists, January 1995-2000.


4. Chairman, Nomination Committee, American Institute of Hydrology, Fall 1996.


5.  Senior Vice President, American Institute of Hydrology (AIH), 1999-2000.


6.  President, American Institute of Hydrology, 2001-2003.


7. Past President, American Institute of Hydrology, 2003-2005.


8. Secretary, Watershed Council, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012-2014.


9. Vice Chair, Watershed Council, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014-2015.


10. Chair, Watershed Council, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015-2018.


11. Past Chair, Watershed Council, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-2021.


11. Member-Liaison, Technical Executive Committee (ExCom), Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015-2018.


12. Member, Advisory Board, American Institute of Hydrology, Carbondale, Illinois, 2011-present.


13. Member, Executive Board, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, Reston, Virginia, 2015-2018.


14. Vice President, Association of Global Groundwater Scientists (AGGS), 2016-2019.


15. President-Elect, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, 2018-2019.


16. President, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, 2019-2020.

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17. Past President, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, 2019-2020.

2. Services to Professional Societies: CV

MEMBERSHIP ON NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PANELS

[20 Panels]

1.  Member, Technical Panel, Technical Service Center, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver  Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, 2000-2006.
2. Member, Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Group, Denver Federal Center, U.S. Bureau of  Reclamation, Denver, Colorado, 1999-2006.
3. Member, Technical Panel, Department of Homeland Security, Division of Health Assessment  and Consultation, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2003.
4. Member of Review Panel, NAFTA, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., May, 2004.
5. Member, Technical Panel, Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, Department of Homeland Security, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2005.
6. Member of SFWMM Review Panel, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, September-October, 2005.
7. Member, EPA-2007 Urban/Regional Planning Fellowships Panel, Silver Spring, Maryland, March 2007.
8. Member of USGS-UC Davis-Willow Slough Scientific Advisory Committee, Davis, California, 2007-2009.
9. Member of Review Panel, Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, Kuwait, 2009.
10. Member of SFWMM Review Panel, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, April-October, 2010.
11. Member of Review Panel, Civilian Research Development Foundation, April 2010.
12. Member of Review Panel, Program for International Research and Education (PIRE), National Science Foundation, May 2010.
13. Member of Review Panel, Federal Emergency Management Administration, February-June, 2012.  
14. Reviewer, World Bank, for evaluation of National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, 2012-13.
15. Panel, European Commission, Water Works-14, 2015.
16. Member of Review Panel, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, 2014-2017.
17. Member of Review Panel, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India, 2014-2017.
18. Chair, FLOODNET Panel, National Science and Engineering Council of Canada, 2015-2020.
19. Member, Review Panel, CalEPA, 2018.
20. Member, Review Panel, NJWTP021717, Township of Wayne, Passaic County, New Jersey, 2019.

2. Services to Professional Societies: CV

MEMBERSHIP ON NATIONAL COMMITTEES

[40 Committees]

1. Member,  Committee  on  Precipitation, American Geophysical Union, from October, l980 - September l983.
2. Corresponding Member, Watershed Management Committee of the Irrigation and Drainage Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, since October l, l979.
3. Corresponding Member, Surface Water Hydrology Committee of the Hydraulics Division,  American Society of Civil Engineers, from October l, l979 - September 30, l982.
4. Corresponding Member, Task Committee on Quantifying Land  Use Change Effects, American Society of Civil Engineers, from August, l980 - July l982.
5. Corresponding Member,  Task  Committee on Estimation of Runoff Time Characteris­tics,  American Society of Civil Engineers, from August, l980 - July l982.
6. Corresponding Member,  On-Farm  Irrigation  Committee of the Irrigation and  Drainage Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, from March, l98l - February l984.
7. Member, Education Committee, Technical Council on Computer Practices, American Society of Civil Engineers, l983-l988.
8. Member, Publications Committee, American Water Resources Association, from January l983 - December l985.
9.  Delegate, University Council on Water Resources, l984-l986.
10. Control Member, Task Committee on Infiltration Manual, Division of Irrigation and Drainage, American Society of Civil Engineers, Fall l985-l988.
11. Member, Working Group on Modeling and Statistics, American Water Resources Association,  l984-l987.
12.  Member, Working Group on Surface Hydrology, American Water Resources Associa­tion, l984-l987.
13.  Member, Publications Committee, American Institute of Hydrology, l985-l988.
14.  Member, Technical Council on Computer Practices, American Society of Civil Engineers, from l987 to present.
15. Member, Surface Water Hydrology Committee, Division of Irrigation and Drainage, American Society of Civil Engineers, l988 to 1993.
16.  Member, Publications  Committee,  American  Water  Resources  Association, from l989 to 1996.
17. Member, Awards Committee, American Water Resources Association, from l989 to present.
18. Correspondent, European Committee for Water Resources Management (ECOWARM), from January 1990 to 2002.
19.  Member, Geographic  Information  Systems (GIS) Committee, American Water Resources Association, from 1990 to 1995.
20. The United States Achievement  Academy  Nominator, The Official National Collegiate Engineering Awards, Lexington, Kentucky, 1993-present.
21. Member, Surface Water Hydrology Committee, ASCE,1998-present.
22. Member, Task Committee on Wetlands Hydrology, ASCE,1998-present.
23. Member, On-Farm Irrigation Committee, ASCE, 1988-present.
24. Member, Evapotranspiration in Irrigation and Hydrology Committee, ASCE, 1998-present.
25. Member, Crop Water Use Committee, U.S. Committee on ICID, 1995-2000.
26. Member, Council on Natural Disaster Reduction, ASCE,1998-2004.
27. Member, International Committee, AWRA, 2000-2004.
28.  Member, Hydrology and Watershed Management, AWRA, 2000-206.
29. Member, Education and Research Council, EWRI, ASCE-2005-present.
30. Member, Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee, EWRI, ASCE, 2004-present.
31. Member, Groundwater Hydrology Technical Committee, EWRI, ASCE, 2004-present.
32. Member, Hydro-Climate Technical Committee, EWRI, ASCE, 2008-present.
33. Member, AAWRE Awards Committee, ASCE, 2013-2014.
33. Member, EWRI Subcommittee on Awards, ASCE, 2013-2104.
34. Member, AAWRE Eminence Committee, ASCE, 2016-2019.
35. Member, AAWRE Awards Committee, ASCE, 2018-2021.
36. Member, AAWRE International Committee, ASCE, 2018-2021.
37. Member, AAWRE Nominations Committee, ASCE, 2021-present.
38. Member, AAWRE By-Laws Committee, ASCE, 2021-present.
39. Member, AAWRE Nominations Committee, ASCE, 2022-present.
40. Member, The International Conferences on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER) Steering Committee, 1993-present.

2. Services to Professional Societies: CV

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

[4 Groups]

1.  Organizer, Water Resources Interest Group composed of those in Baton Rouge engaged in education, research or service related to water resource technology, Spring l983-l985.


2.  Member, Scientific Committee, Universita Italiana Per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Fall l983-l985.


3.  Faculty Associate, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., Montclair, California, from Fall l987 to present.


4. Member, International Advisory Committee, Indo-Gulf Centre for Arid Regions Engineering 2014-present.

2. Services to Professional Societies: CV
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