Chancellor Dirks has approved the appointment of Professor Mark Stacey as the Lawrence E. Peirano Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2014-June 30, 2019.
This is a well-deserved honor and recognition of Stacey's outstanding record in all three areas of teaching, research and service.
Stacey teaches in CEE's Environmental Engineering program. He is widely recognized as a preeminent scholar in the detailed physics of estuarine dynamics. His research has resulted in more accurate and precise models of how freshwater and saltwater mix in areas that are of critical importance to aquatic ecosystems, such as estuaries and coastal environments.
Stacey has been honored with several awards, including, the Nicholas P. Fofonoff Award from the American Meteorological Society, the Estuarine Research Federation’s Pritchard Award, and the NSF CAREER Award.
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Lawrence E. Peirano (CEE BS '51, MS '52) worked at Kennedy/Jenks Consultants for 39 years, retiring in 1994 as Chief Technical Officer, Board Chair, and shareholder.
Peirano's most notable technical presentations were on a then-new phosphorus removal process he proved-out in plant-scale tests at the Reno-Sparks Wastewater Treatment Facility in 1974. As a visiting lecturer in CEE's Environmental Engineering program, he taught a graduate course on biological wastewater treatment.
In 1997 the Berkeley Foundation awarded Peirano The Trustee’s Citation for “Outstanding Achievement in a Major Fundraising Campaign.”