Biography
Daniel P. Loucks continues to teach and direct research in the development and application of economics, ecology and systems analysis methods to the solution of environmental and regional water resources problems at Cornell and in Delft, NL, and Vienna, Austria. He has written numerous articles and co-authored books on these topics, including two widely used text books on water resources planning and management. He has held positions of Department chair and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering. During periods of leave from Cornell, Loucks has had appointments at other universities in the US, Europe, and Australia, at the World Bank and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, and as a consultant to numerous governmental and international agencies and consulting companies.
Research Interests
Development and Application of Environmental Engineering, Economics, Ecology, and Systems Analysis methods for addressing regional environmental and water resources issues.
Teaching Interests
Water Resource Systems Modeling Public Systems Modeling Engineering Economics and Management
Select Publications
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Loucks, D.P., 2019, Developed river deltas: are they sustainable? Environ. Res. Lett. 14 (2019) 113004 Institute of Physics Publishing
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Opgrand, Jeff, J, Paul V. Preckel, F.T. Sparrow, Gregory Thomas, Daniel P. Loucks, 2019, Restoring the natural flow regime of a large hydroelectric complex: Costs and considerations, J. Energy Volume 190, 1 January 2020,
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Loucks, D.P., 2020, From Analyses to Implementation and Innovation, Water 2020, 12(4), 974; also pp 7-18 in Simonovic, Slobodan P. (Ed.), 2020, Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems, MDPI, Nov. 2022 December ISBN 978-3-03943-769-6 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-03943-770-2 (PDF)
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Wild, T.B,, A. Birnbaum, P. Reed, D.P. Loucks, 2021, An open source reservoir and sediment simulation framework for identifying and evaluating siting, design, and operation alternatives, Environmental Modelling and Software, Volume 136, February, 104947
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Kron, W., T. Tingsanchali, D.P. Loucks, F.G. Renaud, J.J. Bogardi, A. Fekete, 2021, Chapter 22, Water-related hazard and risk management, in, Bogardi, J.J., Tingsanchali, T., Nandalal, K.D.W., Gupta, J., Salamé, L., van Nooijen, R.R.P., Kolechkina, A.G., Kumar, N., Bhaduri, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, Springer International Publishing, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8 ISBN 978-3-030-60145-4
Select Awards and Honors
- Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (Management) 2016
- Honorary Diplomate, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers 2013
- Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society of Civil Engineering Environmental & Water Resources Institute 2010
- Elected to Honorary Member, American Society of Civil Engineers 1998
- U.S. Senior Scientist Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1992
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering 1989
Education
- Cornell University 1965