Career Award
The ENRI Career Award recognizes College of Agricultural Sciences faculty, extension educators, and staff who have had a distinguished career in the environmental and natural resources field for a period of ten or more years.
Award description, eligibility, and nomination criteria.
Nominations Due: March 5, 2010
2009 Award Winner
Douglas B. Beegle
Dr. Beegle began his career at Penn State as an instructor in Agronomy in 1981. Since that time he has earned a national and international reputation as an outstanding extension specialist with programs in soil fertility, and farm nutrient management. He has become a key advisor to government agencies dealing with nutrient management, and played a key role in the development of one of the first comprehensive state Nutrient Management Programs in the country. This program has been held up as a model for science-based nutrient management across the country and internationally. He has also developed and conducted educational programs in nutrient management for farmers, farm advisors, public agencies and non-governmental organizations. In recent years he has been heavily involved in research and extension activities related to develop nutrient management systems that maximize the economic return from nutrients while minimizing the environmental impact.
2008 Award Winner
Donald Davis
Dr. Davis holds the title of Professor of Plant Pathology and has faculty affiliation in the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment and the Ecology program. The accomplishments and contributions of Dr. Davis to the environmental and natural resources sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences are many and far-reaching. He has consistently exhibited excellence in teaching, research, and outreach as both an individual and as a team member. His career at Penn State has covered almost 44 years and included his undergraduate and graduate education and his tenure as a faculty member in the Department of Plant Pathology for the past 36 years. He is an outstanding example of a successful senior faculty member.
2007 Award Winners
David DeWalle and William Sharpe
David DeWalle, Professor of Forest Hydrology, and William Sharpe, Professor Emeritus of Forest Hydrology, in the School of Forest Resources, both are recipients of the 2007 ENRI Career Award. During his outstanding career, David DeWalle has made major contributions to understanding of forest hydrology and microclimatology, snow hydrology, and impacts of ecosystem disturbances. DeWalle is also the Director of the Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center. Professor Sharpe is recognized for his career contributions to research and outreach on acidification of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, drinking water quality, forest regeneration, and residential water conservation. DeWalle and Sharpe have collaborated on many important projects and over the years have co-authored thirty-three refereed publications, twenty-three reports to various sponsors or extension reports, and twenty-one sponsored projects worth $2.5million.
