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Thomas Barnwell, Jr.
ORD Scientist Selected for National Award
(June, 2002) Thomas Barnwell, Jr., a senior science advisor in the National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), recently won the 2002 Computing in Civil Engineering Award. This prestigious award is made annually to a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) who has made an outstanding contribution in the application of computers to the practice of civil engineering. The award consists of a plaque, a certificate, and a cash prize.
Tom won the award because of his many years of experience in the field of computer modeling. Some examples of his work include developing basin-scale stream models for NPDES permits, estuary models to evaluate discharge permits for industries and power plants, eutrophication models to evaluate nutrient discharges to lakes, and transport and fate models for pollutants in the environment. Throughout his career, Tom has provided technical assistance to states, EPA regional offices, operating programs, and other ORD offices.
Tom has worked for EPA since 1971 and has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature. He has received numerous awards for his work, including EPA Science Achievement Awards in both Water Quality ("For developing and applying state-of-the-art modeling and computing concepts to meet agency assessment needs") and Earth Sciences ("For creative and innovative application of simulation models and use of data bases in developing estimates of the carbon sequestration potential of agricultural land in the Central United States"). He was EPA's Federal Engineer of the Year for 1994. His technical assistance activities have included Egypt, Nigeria, Spain, the Peoples Republic of China, Poland and Hungary, and he represents EPA on the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation's Committee on Sound Management of Chemicals Implementation Task Force on Mercury.
Tom has a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University. He is a member of many professional associations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the International Water Association, the Water Environment Federation, the Ecological Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. He has served as a technical reviewer for ASCE's Journal of Environmental Engineering, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, and Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, International Association on Water Quality's journals Water Research and Journal of Water Science and Technology, Water Environment Federation's Water Environment Research and the American Geophysical Union's Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
For more information, contact Estella Waldman at Waldman.Estella@epa.gov.