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McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Myron B. Fiering '55, a world-renowned hydrologist, died Wednesday afternoon at Mt. Auburn Hospital after a sudden heart attack...
Middens can reveal changes in the heavens as well as on earth. That was demonstrated by hydrologist Fred Phillips of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who checked an ancient pack-rat midden for evidence of cosmic-ray bombardment of the earth. He knew that highly energetic cosmic-ray particles create the radioisotope chlorine 36 when they strike argon atoms in the atmosphere, and that the isotope finds its way into plants and the urine of mammals, including the pack...
...believe that straightening small tributaries and lining them with concrete for stability only compounds flood problems by moving water faster. "The water down below doesn't get a chance to get out of the way before the other water is there on top of it," observes Fred Liscum, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Levees built to protect towns can also restrict river flow, which in turn can force the waterway to crest and wash out the barriers on either bank. Says Robert Cox, Louisiana floodplain administrator: "You don't get rid of the water; you just pass...
...declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued...
Storm rising -- political and natural. Bush can smell it and view it on every horizon. The old planet is sagging more than ever from its burdens of people and pollution, and it no longer takes a hydrologist or climatologist to detect it. Every American can see it in the air. You can stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North...