Word: hydrologist
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...knows when the drought will end. Scientists believe this dry spell, which has plagued a broad swath of the West since 1999, is more typical of the region than its 60 million inhabitants would care to admit. As Charles Ester, chief hydrologist for Arizona's Salt River Project, a major provider of water and electricity, puts it, "What we took as a period of normal rainfall in the past century was actually a period of abundance...
...main channel of Colorado's Blue River, casting his fly rod. One after another, big rainbow trout take his flies, jumping and fighting the line until he plays each one out to the bank, removes the hook and gently returns the fish to the clear, cold water. Rosgen, a hydrologist, helped bring this stretch of river back to life. The land along the water here had been hammered by years of cattle grazing, the banks eroded after willows were removed to make way for more hay. At the request of the landowner, Rosgen dragged in boulders and chunks of dead...
...After last week's destruction, few people can fail to realize that Europe's weather may be taking a serious turn for the worse. And regardless of the role of global warming, there are measures that can be taken to prevent the same thing happening again. Bernhard Pelikan, a hydrologist at the Institute for Water Economy in Vienna, says the flooding in Austria was especially severe because of deforestation, intensive agriculture and heavy settlement around the river plains. All of these things, Pelikan argues, stop excess water from draining away and as a result "floods are higher and the water...
Herberich currently resides in Winchester and is employed as a hydrologist for ENSR, a Boston environmental engineering firm...
Kent Bostick is a groundwater hydrologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 43, an age when most Olympic cyclists have long since retired, he's competing in his first Olympics. He has kept up a grueling 250-mile to 500-mile-per-week training schedule while working 35 hours a week disposing of contaminants. He does a little of both work and training by riding 20 miles to his office each day. His wife Carol Ann, a racer herself, and some friends often meet up with him after work for a three- to four-hour training ride in the hills...