ASDSO’s tenth annual Student Paper Competition winners will be honored at Dam Safety 2019, September 8-12 in Orlando, FL. ASDSO annually invites students to submit papers on dam and levee safety topics including traditional areas of design engineering, structural and geotechnical analysis, hydrology, hydraulics, construction, risk management and hazard mitigation, emergency action planning, dam security, and policy. Please check back in November 2019 for information on the next student paper competition.
2019 Student Paper Competition Winners
Arced Labyrinth Weirs in Reservoirs
Seth D. Thompson, Hydraulic and Hydrologic Designer, Gannett Fleming (Formerly a MS Student at Utah State University)
Co-Author: Blake P. Tullis, Ph.D., Professor, Utah State University
Regional Semi-Empirical Site Response Model for Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta Levees
Tristan E. Buckreis, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles
Award History
| 2018 | Rowshon Jadid, North Carolina State University; Lucien Hollins, Arizona State University |
| 2017 | Shahin Safavizadeh, North Carolina State University; Thomas Robbins, Boise State University |
| 2016 | Emily Reed, Tennessee Technological University; Yi Tyan Tsai, University of California Los Angeles |
| 2015 | Alexander P. Sturm, University of California Davis; Ali Asghari Tabrizi, University of South Carolina; Lourdes Polanco-Boulware, Utah State University |
| 2014 | Daniel VandenBerge, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Beena Ajmera, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Laura Ferre, University of Colorado-Denver |
| 2013 | Natalie A. Youngblood, Colorado State University; Lourdes Polanco, Utah State University; Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, and Nowfel Mahmud Bhuyian, Tennessee Technological University |
| 2012 | Sittinan Benjasupattananan, University of Delaware; Wyatt Jenkins, University of Missouri; Kevin Cook, Kristin Pesman, Katrina Schwab, James Shannon, and Justin Milne, Seattle University |
| 2011 | Christopher Sandt, University of North Carolina; Mishelle Shriro and Diego Cobos-Roa, UC-Berkeley; Mahdi Khalilzad, North Carolina State University |
| 2010 | Benjamin Skousen, University of Utah; Lourdes Polanco, Utah State University |
| 2009 | Rachael Bisnett, Purdue University; David Judi, University of Utah; Abouzar Sadrekarimi, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign |
