Word: hydrologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation is worsening," an hydrologist for the National Weather Service said yesterday. The river rose to 20 feet above flood stage and just a foot below the brim of the weakened makeshift dikes...
...turned out." Catania quickly adds: "I have no real complaints." In some cases, political husbands have enjoyed unforeseen boons from their wives' careers. When Patsy Mink, 46, was elected to Congress from Hawaii in 1964, her husband John quit his job as a hydrologist with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, won a fellowship to Johns Hopkins University and later joined a Washington-based scientific consulting firm that regularly sends him to the Pacific basin...
...pockmarked central and northern Alabama in recent years. Sinkholes often occur when the roofs of underground limestone caverns suddenly collapse. Government scientists are not yet sure what is causing the rash of sinkholes in Alabama (at least 1,000 in Shelby County alone in the past 15 years). But Hydrologist John G. Newton thinks that they may be the result of a natural-or man-induced-lowering of the water table. That would not only remove buoyant support from the subsurface clay above the caverns, but would also cause additional structural damage to the cavern roof by increasing the downward...