Professor Loucks teaches and carries out research in the application of systems analysis, economic theory, ecology and environmental engineering to problems in regional development and environmental quality management including air, land, and water resource systems. He has authored articles and book chapters in these subject areas.

Since 1969 he has served as a consultant to private and government agencies and various organizations of the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO involved in regional water resources development planning in Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. From 1975 to 1978 he was a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency participating in the US-USSR exchange program on environmental protection.

Since 1976 he has been a visiting professor in water resources-environmental systems engineering at the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands. Loucks has served on various committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a U.S. member of an advisory committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.

From 1977 to 1990, he served as a member of the IIASA liaison committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Secretary of the Army appointed him to US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board in 1994. He served as Vice Chair and Chair from 1995 to 1998, and received the Commander's Award for Public Service in 1998.

He currently is a member of a NRC committee on the Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and of an International Joint Commission Study Board pertaining to the Great Lakes. Loucks was awarded the Huber Research Prize in 1970 and the Julian Hinds Award in 1986 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was elected to Fellow in the Society in 1983 and to Honorary member in 1998. In 1975 he received a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to lecture in Yugoslavia.

Loucks was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1955. He served as an aviator on active duty until 1959 and subsequently in the Naval Reserve until1981. From 1979 to 1981 he commanded VR-52, the largest Naval Air Transport Squadron in the country having detachments at Naval Air Facility, Detroit, MI, Andrews Air Force Base, MD, and Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, PA. In 1981 he was awarded the Navy’s Commendation Medal by the Secretary of the Navy. He retired as Captain from the Naval Reserve in 1992. . . . short bio

Professor Loucks teaches and carries out research in the application of systems analysis, economic theory, ecology and environmental engineering to problems in regional development and environmental quality management including air, land, and water resource systems. He has authored articles and book chapters in these subject areas.

Since 1969 he has served as a consultant to private and government agencies and various organizations of the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO involved in regional water resources development planning in Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America . . . full bio