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John McPhee’s Short Essay About A 1972 Rockefeller Civil Service Award Winner - Dr. Luna Leopold, The First Chief Hydrologist At The USGS
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jfklibrary.org/archives/other- <--JFK's 1958 speech at the Rockerfeller Civil Service Awards
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usgs.gov/news/featured-story/l <-- shared details of Dr. Luna Leopold from the USGS
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fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/04/ <-- shared details of The Patch, by John McPhee
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eos.org/opinions/luna-b-leopol <--shared EOS retrospective of Dr Leopold
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I was reading - with a mug of tea - The Patch (link above) by John McPhee, a decades-old favourite author of mine - and came across this short essay amongst many fine others…

@USGS

Fluvial System Block Diagrams
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I was looking to understand a fluvial system the other day, up in the high Arctic, as I looked at 3DEP remote sensed elevation data… I have always been fascinated by the how geology, water, weather shapes a landscape, including erosion (aka geomorphology if you will) – and realized how very much value fluvial block diagrams have as we try to conceptualise what has, is and will happen(ed.)