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unusual facts about Hydrology


Hydrology

Sources include land based sensors, airborne sensors and satellite sensors.


1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision

Based on a hydrologic survey, the bomb was thought by the Department of Energy to lie buried under 5 to 15 feet (2 to 5 m) of silt at the bottom of Wassaw Sound.

Arabian Gulf University

Desert and Arid Land Sciences, which includes Hydrology and groundwater resources management, agricultural techniques and hydroponics, environmental sciences and natural resources, geographic information systems and remote sensing

Bruno Dettori

He graduated in agricultural science and gained experience of teaching abroad for two academic years at the Faculty of Agriculture in Asmara, Eritrea and became the author of 40 publications and research on national and international journals related to geology and hydrology.

Garonne

Despite the lack of universal agreement upon definition for determining a stream's source, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution agree that a stream's source should be considered as the most distant point (along watercourses from the river mouth) in the drainage basin from which water runs.

Harvey Molotch

The couple had two children, Shana (born 1969), now with two children and living in Northern California and Noah (born 1972), now with two children and living in Boulder Colorado where he is on faculty at University of Colorado as hydrological scientist, as well as research scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Hydraulics Research Station

Hydrological Research Unit transferred to the Natural Environment Research Council and later to become Institute of Hydrology and then Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

Upon the proposal of Edmond Halley, who was not only an astronomer but also a geophysicist, and in 1687 his extensive treatise on the hydrology of the intermittent Lake Cerknica won him a Fellowship of the Royal Society.

K. Sriramakrishnaiah

In recognition of his services, he was honored with ‘National hydrology award’ in 1987 by National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee and ‘Honorary Doctorate’ in 1989 by Sri Venkateswara University.

Krynica Morska

In 1958 it was renamed Krynica Morska (Krynica is an obsolete, poetic term for "spring (hydrology)"; Morska meaning "of the sea", i.e., "sea spring" or "seaside spring").

Lake Discharge Problem

Discharge at the lake outlet will vary based on the normal depth calculated from the lake and channel characteristics.

Meinzer Award

It is named after Oscar Edward Meinzer who has been called the "father of modern groundwater hydrology".

National Institute of Hydrology

National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) is a Government of India Society under Ministry of Water Resources and has been functioning as a research Institute in the area of hydrology and water resources in the country since December 1978 in Roorkee City.

Run On

Run-on, in hydrology, the process or measure of surface water infiltration

Tachopteryx thoreyi

The gray petaltail lives in highlands, woodlands, and deciduous forests with permanent seeps, often indicated by the presence of skunk cabbage and ferns.

Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

A 17th-century Spanish writer, Alonso Hernández del Portillo, asserts that "the city contained many tides and fountains of very sweet and healthy water" and that "fountains of fresh water could be seen spouting out of the sea near the foot of the Rock", possibly referring to a spring at a fault called the Orillon (at the site of the later Orillon Batteries) in the north-west face of the Rock.


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