Research Projects

My Research Group

Professional Membership

Professional Service and Committees

Committees

•	Member: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI) “Doppler Radar” Task Committee.
•	Co-Chair: Uncertainty Analysis Task of the Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration (CLEAR) Model of Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Comprehensive Ecosystem Restoration Plan.
•	Member: Precipitation Committee, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Reviewer

•	Advances in Water Resources
•	Water Resources Research
•	Journal of Applied Meteorology
•	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
•	Journal of American Water Resources Association
•	Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment
•	Hydrological Sciences Journal
•	Journal of Geophysical Research
•	Journal of Hydrometeorology
•	Transactions of American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Conference Session Convener

•	Co-convener of the session on “General Session on Precipitation” for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (May, 2008).
•	Co-convener of the session “General Session on Precipitation” for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Meeting in Acapulco, Mexico (May, 2007).
•	Co-convener of a the session “Rainfall Measurement, Estimation, and Validation: Advances and Hydrologic Applications” for the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco (December 2007)

Departmental and University Services and Committees

•	Advisor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter
•	Committee member, Graduate Peer Review Committee, College of Engineering, UL Lafayette
•	Chair, under-graduate curriculum committee of the civil engineering department, UL-Lafayette
•	Acting Department Head; Summer 2003
•	Panelist on the UL Office of Sponsored Research workshop on BOR Support Funds
•	Committee Member, Search Committee for the Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, UL-Lafayette
•	Committee Member, Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Structures; the Department of Civil Engineering
•	Committee Member, Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering
•	Chair of Ad-hoc Committee on the current and future status of the CIVE-142 course in the Civil Engineering Department, UL-Lafayette
•	Committee Member, Search Committee for the Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Technology, UL-Lafayette
•	Assist College of Engineering during the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Engineering and Technology Week

Community Services

•	Judge, Tower building High School Competition held on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, spring 2005.
•	Judge, LA Region VI Science and Engineering Fair, March 2006.
•	Member: The Steering Committee for the Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) on “Parish-wide Master Drainage Plan”, planning and public works divisions
•	Guest Speaker, the Alliance for Minority Participation organization (LS-LAMP), November 30, 2006.

Awards and Honors

2007	Outstanding Advisor Award, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, April, 2007.
2005	Team Achievement certificate presented by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana in recognition of contributions associated with the completion of the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA), Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration Study, January 2005.
2005	Endowed Professorship -Stuller Settings – Matthew G. Stuller/BORSF Professorship in Engineering (Fall 2005-present)
2000	Winner of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrology Section’s Outstanding Student Paper Award during the Spring AGU Spring 2000 meeting, Washington D.C.
1999	Selected as one of the six best student papers out of the complete number of world-wide submissions in the John F. Kennedy Student Competition at the XVIII Biennial Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Research, Graz, Austria.
1999	Departmental Scholarship, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, The University of Iowa.
1999	Travel award from the Graduate College of the University of Iowa.
1999	DANIDA Fellowship for training in Hydraulic Engineering at the Danish Hydraulic Institute, Portconsult, and the Danish Coastal Authority.

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