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2001 Appointed Merle C. Prunty Jr. Professor of Geography, January, 2001.
2001-2002 University Partnership Program, Binational Fulbright Commission Visiting Professor, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 3 weeks in March 2001 and 3 weeks in March 2002.
1999 Awarded a prize of $500 by the Editorial Board of Physical Geography for "Cyclicity in precipitation and stream discharge in Georgia and relationships with the Southern Oscillation", judged as one of the four best papers presented at the Association of American Geographers ENSO symposium in Hawaii, March, 1999.
1998 University System of Georgia Chancellor's Award ($1,500) for "China 1998 Faculty Development Seminar", Nanjing, China, July 1-July 30.
1998 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 28-March 16 ($2,000 travel).
1997- Co-leader of the "Hydrological Dynamics" working group within the UNESCO IGCP 413 "Future Dryland Environmental Change from Past Dynamics."
1996- One of 11 Full Members of International Geographical Union Commission 96.C21 "Sustainable Development and Management of Karst Terrains."
1991 "Study in a Second Discipline," University Faculty Development Award, University of Georgia ($15,000 to Department of Geography).
1990 Chairman of Working Group "Paleoenvironments of Presently Arid Karst Areas" within IGU Study Group "Anthropogenic Impact and Environmental Changes in Karst."
1990 Chairman of the Working Group "Desert Paleoenvironments from Cave Sediments" within UNESCO's International Geological Correlation Program 252 "Past and Future Evolution of Deserts."
1988 Resource advisor for countries in eastern and southern Africa, Fulbright Program for Africa, Pre-Departure Conference, June 28-July 1, 1988, Washington, D.C. ($700 honorarium from the U.S. Information Agency).
1987-1988 Africa Regional Research Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to undertake 9 months of research in Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zaire, and Kenya. Cooperative research and affiliations were as follows: Botswana - Affiliation with the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone; Zambia - Research Affiliate of the Department of Geography, University of Zambia, Lusaka; Zimbabwe - Fulbright Research Associate in the Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare. Cooperative research with the Zimbabwe Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management; Zaire - Member of the Semliki Research Expedition headed by Noel T. Boaz, Director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA. Cooperative research with the Institut Zairois Pour la Conservation de la Nature; Kenya - Affiliation with the National Museums of Kenya (Director R.E. Leakey). Cooperative research with the Caving Group of East Africa.
1983 University of Georgia M.G. Michael Award for Excellence in Research ($2,000 cash award)
1974 Distinction in Ph.D. Comprehensive Examinations
1973-1975 National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship
1971 South African Geographical Society Medal for the outstanding Master's thesis of the year.
1967 Leverhulme Award (for performance in B.Sc. final examinations).
1967 Awarded First Class Honors B.Sc.