Background
Dracup, John Albert was born on July 14, 1934 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Albert George and Joanne (Semple) Dracup.
Dracup, John Albert was born on July 14, 1934 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Albert George and Joanne (Semple) Dracup.
Bachelor of Science, University Washington, 1956. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1966.
Engineer, Shell Oil Corporation, Houston, 1956-1957;
research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1959-1960;
assistant professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1960-1962;
assistant research engineer, University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1965;
assistant professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965-1971;
associate professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971-1978;
professor, University of California, Los Angeles, since 1978. Teaching fellow University of California, Berkeley, 1963-1965. Member United States Delaware to the International Conference on Water for Peace, Washington.
Member panel on water and climate, geophysics research board, member of advisory commission on the international decade for natural hazard reduction, member commission on natural disaster, member commission on water resources research review, member commission on mono basin ecosystem study National Research Council, NAS, Washington, team leader analysis of New Yrs. Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii, commission on natural disasters, commission on engineering and technical system, 1987-1988. Member commission on man and the biosphere, MAB-4 Directorate, United States State Department and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
External examiner faculty of technical U. Ibadan, Nigeria. Presenter, consultant and expert in field.
Lieutenant United States Army, 1957-1959, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Civil Engineers (faculty advisor to University of California at Los Angeles/American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter, Chairman of Commission on water resource system, president and director water resources planning and management technical group Los Angeles section, subcommittee on climate change, committee andweather change, irrigation and drainage division). Member American Geophysical Union (chairman Horton award committee, manpower and education committee, water resources and environmental planning committee, search committee for editor of Geophysical Research Letters), American Water Works Association, International Association for Hydrologic Sciences (United States national commission on science hydrology), International Water Resources Association (commission on mathematics models in hydrology), American Meteorological Society, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Sigma Xi.
Married Janet Helen Smith, August 3, 1956 (divorced June 1970). Children: Jeffrey A., Jonathan A., Joy H., Jan M. Married Kathleen Anne Molloy, December 16, 1972.
1 child, Brian John.