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JAN VAN SCHILFGAARDE
JAN VAN SCHILFGAARDE
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In the postwar years, opportunities to pursue an advanced education in Europe were greatly diminished, so Jan's father, working through a university professor friend in Ann Arbor, arranged for a scholarship for Jan at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A year later, his father's friend recommended that he transfer to Iowa State College in Ames, where he knew the retired president and where Jan would be able to pursue math and technical subjects.
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His signal contributions to drainage theory led to improved drainage-system designs based on transient criteria and rainfall-generated probabilities. His research covered virtually all aspects of subsurface drainage, and he pioneered using a thermocouple psychrometer method for determining the water potential of intact plants.
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He ultimately moved up the administrative ladder and became associate director and then director of the USDA Soil and Water Research Program, where he was responsible for overseeing research scientists and engineers in some 80 locations across the country. With the backing of his superiors, Jan promoted fundamental research directed toward solving practical problems.
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He was a member of the NRC Board on Agriculture from 1984 to 1990; chair of the NRC Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems from 1985 to 1990; chair of the National Academy of Sciences World Food and Nutrition Study, Panel 4 (Resources for Agriculture) from 1975 to 1977; chair of the U.S.-USSR Bilateral Science Exchange Team on Movement of Water, Gas, Salts, and Heat in Soils, for which he traveled to the USSR in 1972, 1974, and 1976; a member of the NRC Committee on Biology and Medicine in Space, which advised NASA on priorities for biological research on the Space Shuttle from 1972 to 1974; and a participant in the Brownell Task Force appointed by President Nixon in 1972 to find a "permanent and Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 300 3/23/10 3:42:42 PM
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Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize in 1970, the ASAE John Deere Gold Medal Award in 1977, the ASCE Royce Tipton Award in 1986, and in 1991, he received an ARS Senior Executive Service Presidential award; he was invited to present the Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture in Washington, D.C., by the NRC Water Science and Technology Board (1992)
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Craig is currently an engineering director in the missile systems group of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Roberta recalls that a short time after retirement in Fort Collins, Colorado, a grandson, Ari, came to live with them, and they sent him to a private high school in Boulder, 45 miles away.
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