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Professor Jery Stedinger of Cornell University received his doctorate from Harvard University. In 1983-84, he spent a sabbatical leave at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Center in Reston, Virginia, and, in 1999, he spent a semester sabbatical at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Institute for Water Resources.
He was one of the first recipients of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984. In 1989, he was awarded a Walter L. Huber Engineering Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 1997, he received the Julian Hinds Award for contributions to water resources planning from the Water Resources Planning and Management Division of ASCE.
In 1998, Jery received the Award for Best Research Paper from the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. He served as associate director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1989 through 1993. Stedinger is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of the International Water Academy. He belongs to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Risk Analysis, and the American Society of Engineering Education.
He was lead author of the frequency analysis chapter in the 1993 McGraw-Hill Handbook of Hydrology, an author of the 1981 textbook Water Resource Systems Planning and Analysis, and is an author of over 90 professional papers. His research has addressed risk analysis, water resource systems management and stochastic hydrology.
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INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESOURCES
Professor Jery Stedinger
