Water Institute’s new board members

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Water Institute of the Gulf is welcomed three new members to its board of directors – Dr. Gerry Galloway Jr., Christy Brown and Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou. The Institute is also announced that Dr. Robert Twilley, executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, is joining the Institute’s Science and Engineering Advisory Council (SEAC). Galloway is an internationally recognized researcher and Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland where he focuses on issues of water resources policy and management, disaster resilience and national security. Brown is managing director of NOLA Holdings, chairman of the McIlhenny Company, and VP/director of Avery Island Inc. a family land management company in southern Louisiana. Foufoula-Georgiou is Distinguished Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science and the Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of California-Irvine, with research focusing on hydrologic prediction and climate impacts. Galloway is also a retired brigadeer general with the Corps of Engineers. In 2008, he was appointed to the Louisiana Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation, and appointed by President Reagan to serve on the Mississippi River Commission. Brown serves/has served on boards, including Audubon Louisiana, Greater New Orleans Foundation, and the National Audubon Society’s Leadership Council. Foufoula-Georgiou has served as director of the NSF Science and Technology Center, “National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics” and director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. She has published extensively in hydrology and geomorphology and has pioneered methods for multi-scale analysis of complex environmental systems. Twilley has been executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant Program since 2012. (Source: Water Institute of the Gulf Coast 02/05/20) The Water Institute is a not-for-profit, independent applied research and technical services institution with a mission to help coastal and deltaic communities thoughtfully prepare for an uncertain future. Through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, our work helps create more resilient communities, thriving economies, and healthy environment. https://thewaterinstitute.org/media/press-releases/water-institute-welcomes-three-new-board-members-and-a-new-science-and-engineering-advisory-council-member.