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Irrigation
Industry Honors Extension's Larry Curtis
Auburn, Jan. 25---Larry
Curtis, an Alabama Cooperative Extension soil and water engineer and
a professor of biosystems engineering at Auburn University, recently
was named the 2000 Person of the Year by the Irrigation Association.
Each year, this award is
presented to someone outside the commercial industry who has made
outstanding contributions to the irrigation practices.
"The Person of the
Year award is given to a person who has dedicated his or her life
making irrigation technology a positive force for enhancing a global
society," said
Bill Pogue, chairman of
the awards committee.
Curtis was honored for
his work in irrigation water resource management and for his
educational efforts to farming and irrigation communities. Since the
mid-1980s, Curtis' research and Extension efforts have focused on
creating a comprehensive irrigation water resource management and
development program for Alabama. In addition, he recently headed an
off-stream storage study and irrigation research facility
established by the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center in
Belle Mina.
An Auburn University
faculty member since 1976, Curtis earned his bachelor's and master's
degrees at Auburn. Before coming to Auburn, he served on the faculty
of the University of Florida, was an assistant bureau chief for the
Florida Department of Natural Resources and an irrigation specialist
at the University of Georgia.
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