Ralph Wilson out of our branch in the Chief's Office was active in it, and he was
general secretary for years of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology
until he died.
The American Geophysical Union is related to the International Union of Geodesy
and Geophysics. The AGU is the U.S., I don't know what you'd call it, the U.S.
body that participates in the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. They
have a big meeting about every four years. One of these papers I delivered in
Brussels in 195 1 before the IASH of the IUGG.
So the AGU was, I guess to answer your question, they certainly were in the
forefront that brought hydrology to the recognition that it has. Even now, they're
still talking like they have to make a science out of it. But then in the international
field, all of the other countries had people who were getting interested in the same
subject called hydrology.
Q ..
A lot of the issues that you addressed in hydrology had really not been well-
addressed by major engineering organizations like the Corps of Engineers, had they?
I mean they really hadn't studied those subjects and brought them forth in their
planning and surveying process.
A
Well, up until 1942, I don't know much of what was going on before. Most of the
engineering design of hydrologic features were based on empirical relationships,
such as CIA for urban storm runoff. But shortly before I went over in `42, that's
when Hathaway got them involved in designing the spillway capacities on an
adequate basis. I suppose that got all of the field offices involved. They had to start
digging into that subject. But I can't really say what they were doing before 1940.
But from then on the people involved in the district and division offices were
probably in the hydraulics section or division, but they certainly had people start
working on hydrology.
Q ..
Okay.
A
Is Bob Pafford on your list?
Q ..
No.
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