Henry Darcy Medal 2006

The Hungarian scientist András Bárdossy has won the prestigious EGU Henry Darcy Medal for his valuable contributions to statistical hydrology and water resources management.

The Henry Darcy Medal has been established by the Division on Hydrological Sciences in recognition of the scientific achievements of Henry Darcy. It is reserved for individuals in recognition of their outstanding scientific contributions in water resources research and water resources engineering and management.

Professor Bárdossy is currently working at the Institut für Wasserbau, Lehrstuhl für Hydrologie und Geohydrologie, Universität Stüttgart.

Resumé

András Bárdossy has been extremely productive in generating scientific outputs over a very wide range of different topics in statistical applications to hydrology and water resources engineering. Since 1982, he produced 75 papers in ISI rated journal, and although he covers a wide range of subjects, he has a high citation score of more than 700. His strength lies in a variety of mathematical and statistical applications in hydrology and water resources management. He started working with Prof Januz Bogardi, Lucien Duckstein and Erich Plate but soon started his own research groups. András Bárdossy has worked on Hydrology, Geohydrology, Water Resources Planning and published on subjects including: network design, aquifer management, sediment deposition, rainfall simulation, atmospheric circulation patterns, downscaling, extreme precipitation, nitrogen leaching, and the effect of land-use change on hydrological modelling. In his work he used and developed advanced tools like Kriging, multi-objective optimisation and fuzzy-rule based accounting for uncertainty.

Medal Lecture

Professor Bardossy will accept his medal and give his Medal lecture during the EGU General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 2 – 7 April 2006. The lecture ‘The role of variability in hydrological modeling’ starts at Thursday, April 6 at 19:00 h in Lecture Room 23.

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/henry_darcy_overview.html