Steve Cryer, research leader in R&D Operational Excellence, and Dave Barnekow, senior research specialist for Regulatory Sciences and Government Affairs, authored a publication recently recognized as a 2008 Outstanding Paper by the European Agricultural Engineering Society (EurAgEng) and the editors of the international journal “Biosystems Engineering”. The award is an external validation of the quality of Dow AgroSciences applied research by the global scientific community. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief, and past Eur/Ag/Eng president, Bill Day stated, “The exercise of choosing the short list from more than 300 papers published during the last two years proved a real challenge, but we have twelve strong papers from which the journal’s Editorial Board has been asked to choose award winners. I am pleased that these awards can demonstrate to the research community the value we place on their work.”

The publication entitled “Estimating outside Air Concentrations surrounding Fumigated Grain Mills” was one of four chosen as a winning entry. In the paper, Cryer and Barnekow documented field study observations, development of numerical tools to predict internal and external air concentrations of fumigants from commercial grain mill facilities, comparison against experimental observations, and incorporation of parametric uncertainty for regional extrapolations under diverse and semi-infinite parameter combinations. The winners were announced at the EurAgEng Conference held in Crete, Greece in late June.