University of New Orleans professor Denise Reed has been named an Arthur Maass-Gilbert White Fellow under the U.S. Army Institute for Water Resources’ visiting scholar fellowship program. Reed, who is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is the seventh scholar to receive this prestigious appointment, which was first bestowed in 2001.
The Maass-White Fellowship is designed to ensure that solutions which are intended to address today’s water resources problems are infused with the innovative thinking of tomorrow from the nation’s top academics. The fellowship is named for professor Arthur Maas of Harvard University and professor Gilbert White of the University of Colorado, who were both highly influential in the areas of water resources planning and management. Their ideas on the principles of water systems analysis and floodplain management are as relevant today as when they were first published decades ago.
Reed’s “academic and professional accomplishments, combined with her intellectual curiosity and passionate interest in the areas of sediment dynamics in coastal wetlands…will prove especially relevant to the Institute’s current program in support of the Corps Civil Works mission,” according to Robert Pietrowsky, director of the Institute for Water Resources.
Reed’s appointment became effective in September 2011, and will continue through August 2012.