AWRA President Ari M. Michelsen has announced the winners of the 2010 Boggess Award: Lauren A. Patterson and Martin W. Doyle, of the University of North Carolina. Their paper, “Assessing Effectiveness of National Flood Policy Through Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Socioeconomic Exposure,” was published in the February 2009 issue of JAWRA. The award will be presented at the luncheon of the AWRA 2010 Annual Conference, this November in Philadelphia. Congratulations to both authors!
The authors found a significant increase in flood exposure immediately outside the 100-year floodplain throughout North Carolina. As a result of this unintended consequence of national flood policy, any flood even slightly higher than the 100-year flood will have a disproportionately large impact, since development is outside the legal boundary of national flood policy.
The William R. Boggess Award is given to the author or authors of the paper, published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association during the preceding year, that best describes, delineates, or analyzes a major problem or aspect of water resources from either a theoretical, applied, or philosophical standpoint. Established in 1973, the Award honors William R. “Randy” Boggess, a member of AWRA, one of the first Directors, and a former President of the Association, who has also made significant contributions to AWRA as an Editor of JAWRA.
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