Minsker Receives Service to Profession Award

Professor Barbara Minsker received the 2012 Earth and Water Resources Institute’s (EWRI) Service to the Profession Award.  The EWRI Planning and Management Council selected Minsker because of her work with the WATERS Network and campus sustainability initiative at Illinois and her participation in global and multidisciplinary activities within CEE.

Minsker has research interests in environmental systems analysis and is investigating improved methods for modeling complex environmental systems so that informed management-level decisions can be made under conditions of uncertainty. Using machine learning approaches such as genetic algorithms, decision trees, support vector machines, and artificial neural networks, she is investigating innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex environmental problems. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in civil and environmental systems analysis.