Prof Irene Lo of Civil Engineering Department has been selected to receive the Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award by ASCE EWRI
Prof Irene Lo has been selected to receive the Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award by ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) for the paper on 'Natural Gradient Tracer Test for a Permeable Reactive Barrier in Denmark: Spatial Moments Analysis and Dispersion of Conservative Tracer" published in October 2006. The Best Practice-Oriented Paper for all ASCE EWRI Journals is selected by the Associate Editors. The associate editors base the paper selections on nominations, with additional input based on high scores by reviewers. Each associate editor is asked to review several issues to nominate the Best Practice-Oriented Paper. After some paring, e-mail ballots are taken from among the Associate Editors and the Editor.
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