WORLD ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

AWARDS

The list of the Norman Hudson Memorial Award: Name Country Year Award type

Calvin Rose Australia 2004 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Rolf Derpsch Paraguay 2005 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

John Greenfield New Zealand 2006 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Hars Hurn Switzerland 2007 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Michael Stocking UK 2008 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Rattan Lal USA 2009 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

J.S. Bali India 2010 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

John Laflen USA 2012 Norman Hudson Memorial Award Pitsanu Attaviroj Thailand 2013 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Wang Lixian China 2014 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Des Walling UK 2015 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Winfried Blum Australia 2016 Norman Hudson Memorial Award

Brief introduction on the award winners:

Direction: Soil Science, Soil Physics

Articles: Modeling water erosion due to overland flow using physical

principles: 1. Sheet flow; Agricultural Physics: The Commonwealth

International Library: Physics Division;

Rainfall detachment and deposition: sediment transport in the absence

of flow-driven processes

Calvin Rose

Freelance Consultant

Direction: NO-tillage technology

Achievements: Be a key speaker to many international conference

Details at: http://www.rolf-derpsch.com

Rolf Derpsch

Direction: Soil and Water Conservation, Soil Science

Books: The Vetiver System for Soil and Water Conservation

Vetiver Grass: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion

John Greenfield

Hars Hurn

Emeritus Professor, School of International Development, University of

East Anglia

Direction: Natural and social Science, Agricultural biodiversity land

degradation and sustainable land management

Achievement: Aware of that in the sustainable use of natural resources

through the appropriate development of conservation practices

adapted to local socioeconomic and farming conditions.

Books: Agricultural Biodiversity of Smallholder Farms of East

Africa (2004, UNU Press)

Handbook for the Field Assessment of Land Degradation is published in

English (Earthscan, London)

Michael Stocking Details at: http://www.uea.ac.uk/international- development/

people/profile/m-stocking

The Ohio State University, Columbus Carbon Management and

Sequestration Center

Direction: Agronomy, Environmental Science, Soil Science

Achievements: Modeling Soil Carbon Sequestration in Cor-based

Systems in Ohio

Soil development in glacier forelands, Southeast Iceland

Articles: Weed strip management for minimizing soil erosion and

enhancing productivity in the sloping lands of north-eastern India

Carbon Sequestration and Mycorrhizae in Turkish Soils

Rattan La

Founder-member and Patron of the soil Conservation Society of India

Direction: Soil Science, Environmental Science

Books: A new policy for watershed management in India

Taming the Kasi river

Land policy for SEZ

J.S.Bali

Professor (Adjunct) Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State

University

Direction: Agricultural Engineering

Achievement: ARS Outstanding Performance Award (FY90, FY91)

Article: Laflen, J. M., C.H. Huang, and J. Tian (eds). 2000. Soil Erosion

and Dryland Farming. Proceedings of Conference on Soil Erosion and

Dryland Farming, Xian, China, September 1997. CRC Press, New York

Details at: http://www.abe.iastate.edu/abe-

department/directory/john-laflen/

John laflen

Pitsanu Attaviroj

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Direction: Soil Science, Soil Erosion

Article: Soil erosion and land degradation in the northern Thai

uplands

Soil Erosion and Degradation, Northern Thai Uplands: An Economic

Study

Professor of school of Soil and Water Conversation, Beijing Forest

University, China

Direction: Higher Education, Soil and Water Conservation

Achievements: Proposing the concept and method of shortage of Creek

classification in China.

Presiding over the preparation of the "North China Earth and Rock

Mountain shortage of Creek classification survey work rules"

Articles: Combating Desertification in China

Wang Lixian

Des Walling

Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography College of Life and

Environmental Sciences University of Exeter, UK

Direction: Linking erosion and sediment yield, Sediment source

fingerprinting

Achievement: He is an editor of the international journal Hydrological

Processes and a member of the editorial board of Catena, Geografiska

Annaler, Journal of Sediment Research, Geografisk Tidsskrift,

Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology and the Journal of Mountain

Environments. He is an author or editor of 30 books and he has

published more than 460 scientific papers and contributions to edited

volumes

Articles: Sediment sources and siltation in mountain reservoirs: a case

study from the Central Spanish Pyrenees

Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Life

Sciences

Direction: Soil Science

Achievement: Soils of Georgia and problems of their use.

Land Resources for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in

Europe

Article: Heavy metals in some soils of Western Georgia.

Soil Aggregate Stability in Different Soil Orders Quantified by Low

Dispersive Ultrasonic Energy Levels.

Winfried Blum