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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (August 2005) NAME: Gary Parker CITIZENSHIP: U.S.A. EDUCATION: B.S. 1971 Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mechanics and Materials Science Ph.D. 1974 University of Minnesota, Department of Civil Engineering. Ph.D. thesis title: Theoretical aspects of fluvial meandering and braiding Thesis advisor Prof. Alvin Anderson, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota POSITIONS: Tenured since 1977 2/95 – 7/99 Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota 7/85 – 7/05 Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota 8/05 – present Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology, University of Illinois AWARDS 2005 Awarded W. H. Johnson Professorship, Department of Geology, University of Illinois 2003 Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union 2003 IAHR Schoemaker Award (best paper) 2002 G. K. Warren Award, Fluviatile Geomorphology, National Academy of Sciences 2002 Elected Honorary Member of the Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, Italy 2001 Minnesota Erosion Control Society Innovation Award 1999 IAHR Schoemaker Award (best paper) 1997 Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor 1995 IAHR Arthur Thomas Ippen Award 1994 ASCE Hans Albert Einstein Award 1991 ASCE Huber Research Prize 1991 University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Outstanding Teacher Award 1983 ASCE Hilgard Prize (best paper) 1982 ASCE Stevens Award (best discussion) FORMER GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION Panayiotis Diplas, M.S., 1983 Helgi Johannesson, M.S., 1985 Marcelo Garcia, M.S. 1985 Panayiotis Diplas, Ph. D., 1986 Randy Hills, M.S. 1987 Stuart Beck, Ph.D., 1988 Helgi Johannesson, Ph.D., 1988 Rollin Hotchkiss, Ph.D., 1989 Marcelo Garcia, PhD, 1989 Sanjiv Sinha, M.S. 1991 Thomas McDonald, M.S. 1991 Agnes Kovacs, Ph.D., 1992 Norihiro Izumi, Ph.D., 1993 Shinic