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USCID 2009 Scholarship applications and Award nominations are being accepted until August 7, 2009.
USCID honored distinguished members of the profession during the Climate Change Conference in Portland, Oregon. The 2008 recipient of the USCID/Summers Engineering Scholarship was also recognized during the Conference.
Marshall English, Oregon State University, received the USCID Merriam Improved Irrigation Award. English has devoted his 30-year career at OSU to the irrigation profession, serving as Professor in the Biological and Ecological Engineering Department and most recently as Irrigation Extension Specialist. In his current role, English applies his decades of experience to extension work with irrigators and water managers to promote irrigation water conservation and optimum irrigation management. His expertise has resulted in numerous consulting and speaking assignments in many countries around the world, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, China and Chile.
Kenneth R. Wright and Ruth M. Wright were named recipients of the USCID Service to the Profession Award. Both have long been active in the Society, each serving two terms on the USCID Board of Directors. Throughout their professional careers, both have supported irrigated agriculture. Under Ken Wright’s leadership, Wright Water Engineers has provided professional services in all areas of water management, including agricultural and irrigation engineering, hydrology, water supply, flood control and drainage. Ruth Wright, a Water Resources Attorney, served on the Livestock and Natural Resources Committee in the Colorado Legislature, and as House Minority Leader. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. In recent years, the Wrights have invested considerable time and resources into documenting the historic use of water by the ancient Incan civilization in Peru, and early Native Americans in Mesa Verde National Park.
Nadya Alexander, a student at California Polytechnic State University, received the $1,000 USCID/Summers Engineering Scholarship. She is especially interested in irrigation engineering as it relates to sustainable river basin and water district management policies. Nominated by Charles Burt of Cal Poly’s Irrigation Training and Research Center, Alexander is employed by ITRC, where she has worked with SCADA systems and canal automation projects.
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