Dr. Daniel (Pete) Loucks

Professor Daniel P. Loucks, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, was the first Maass-White fellow. Professor Loucks specialty is the application of systems analysis, economic theory, ecology and environmental engineering to problems in regional development and environmental quality management including air, land, and water resource systems.

He has authored numerous articles and book chapters in these subject areas. In addition to many awards and fellowship nationally and internationally, he has chaired various committees in professional societies in civil engineering, geophysical science, and operations research.

Professor Loucks is a member of five honorary societies, and serves as an associate editor and as a member of editorial boards of professional journals in the U.S. and in Europe. Since 1969 he has served as a consultant to private and government agencies and various organizations of the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO involved in regional water resources development planning in Asia , Australia , Eastern and Western Europe , the Middle East , Africa , and Latin America .

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989. Closer to home Professor Loucks has chaired on the US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board and received the Commander's Award for Public Service in 1998. He currently is a member of a NRC committee on the Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and of an International Joint Commission Study Board pertaining to the Great Lakes .

At IWR, Loucks worked with IWR staff members and visiting scholars on Great Lakes management issues, on the Everglades restoration, and helping chart future directions for IWR and the Corps Civil Works program.

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