{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2023-07-18T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T04:15:03","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kavvas\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Education:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydraulics and Systems area; Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana (as Fulbright Scholar and Purdue University Victor O\u2019Shaughnessy Fellow)<\/li>\n<li>M.S.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado (as Fulbright Scholar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Awards and Honors:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>2023 ASCE\/EWRI Lifetime Achievement Award<\/li>\n<li>2019 Distinguished Member of ASCE<\/li>\n<li>2016 Croess Medal from ASCE<\/li>\n<li>2016 Best Paper award from ASCE JHE<\/li>\n<li>2015 International Award from The Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources<\/li>\n<li>2014 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, July 2014<\/li>\n<li>2014 The Advisory Committee Climate Services Award from CA DWR, November, 2014<\/li>\n<li>2010-2015 Gerald and Lillian Orlob Endowed Chair Professor of Water Resources Engineering<\/li>\n<li>2009 ASCE Ven Te Chow Award, (The highest honor that can be bestowed by American Society of Civil Engineers to a Hydrologic Engineer); 2009 Ven Te Chow Award Lecturer, ASCE<\/li>\n<li>2008 ASCE Fellow<\/li>\n<li>2006 ASCE\/EWRI JHE 2006 Best paper award<\/li>\n<li>2001 ASCE Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award<\/li>\n<li>1999 ASCE Richard Torrens Award<\/li>\n<li>Listed in American Men and Women of Science<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Scholar; Purdue University Victor O\u2019Shaughnessy Fellow<\/li>\n<li>Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society<\/li>\n<li>1995-2004 Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Professional Activities:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Chair of the national review panel for the review of the internal USDA\/ARS projects, September \u2013October, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Chair of ASCE\/EWRI Watershed Council, 2022-ongoing<\/li>\n<li>Chair of ASCE\/EWRI Hydroclimate Committee, 2008- ongoing<\/li>\n<li>Member of <u>California Climate Change Advisory Board,<\/u> 2012- 2015<\/li>\n<li>Member of the <u>Steering Group on Water and Climate Change, Asia-Pacific Water Forum,<\/u> June 2010- 2014<\/li>\n<li>Member of the <u>UNESCO Expert Group on Climate Change and Water,<\/u> 2008- 2012<\/li>\n<li><strong>Founding Editor-in-Chief<\/strong> of <u>ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,<\/u> October 1995- June 2004<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Editorial Board of: <u>Water Journal<\/u>, 2019 \u2013 ongoing<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of:\n<ol>\n<li>ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2005 &#8211; ongoing<\/li>\n<li>ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (Indian Journal of Hydraulic Engineering), 2012 &#8211; ongoing<\/li>\n<li>International Journal of Water Quality Exposure and Health, 2008- 2020<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO International Hydrology Series, 2006 \u2013 2012;<\/li>\n<li>Korean Water Resources Journal, 2004-2012;<\/li>\n<li>Open Hydrology Journal, (A Russian-Chinese- Indian international journal in hydrology), 2010- 2015;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor of the <u>Hydrological Sciences Journal,<\/u> 1994-1999<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Editorial Board of the <u>Journal of Hydrology,<\/u> 1991-1997<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Editorial Board of the journal <u>Advances in Water Resources,<\/u> 1989- 1994<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Editorial Board of <u>Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics,<\/u> 1987-1998<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Scientific Committee, 10th International Precipitation Conference, Coimbre, Portugal, June 23-25, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Scientific Committee, 9th International Precipitation Conference, Paris, France, November 12 \u201314, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Member of IAHS Working Group on Experimental and Theoretical Hydrology at All Scales, August, 1999 \u2013 2003<\/li>\n<li>Co-convener of the Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes and Large scale Hydrological Models Symposium during Sixth Scientific Assembly of IAHS, July 18-27, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Chair of Macroscale Hydrologic Modeling Working Group of IAHS, 1995-1999<\/li>\n<li>Co-director of Center for the Study of Hydro-climatology in the Pacific Rim (Jointly with UCLA), July 1996 &#8211; 1999<\/li>\n<li>Convener of the Surface Water Modeling Symposium, Third Scientific Assembly of IAHS, May 10-19, 1989<\/li>\n<li>Chair of ASCE J. Hydrologic Engineering Publications Committee, 1995-2004<\/li>\n<li>Member of ASCE Hydrology Technical Oversight Committee, ASCE Surface Water Hydrology Committee, ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee;<\/li>\n<li>Member of ASCE EWRI Publications Committee 1996-2004<\/li>\n<li>Member of AGU, ASCE, AIH, IAHS, EGS<\/li>\n<li>External Examiner for Ph.D. theses for various Departments of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technologies Invited Expert Reviewer for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: Ph.D.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydraulics and Systems area; Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana (as Fulbright Scholar and Purdue University Victor O\u2019Shaughnessy Fellow) M.S.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State University, Ft. 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