Franklin F. Snyder
I think it must have been Stanford. He was first the head of civil engineering, and
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then I think he became the h e a d of engineering, but he started doing a lot of
consulting work. He developed some models, river forecasting models, and what
not. He started a company, a consulting engineering company.
One thing I mentioned, the Corps was building a project that was going to affect the
campus. The president of the university was quite concerned about it, and he wrote
the Chief a letter about his complaints and said he had the outstanding expert of the
world, Professor Linsley , who was going to straighten this out. It didn't phase the
Corps very much. I forget what the problem was, but it was a hydrologic problem
of some sort that one of our projects was going to affect the university's property.
Ray died a few years back.
Another chap at the Weather Bureau was Max Kohler. He was the first president
of the Commission of Hydro-meteorology of the WMO. He was the Weather
Bureau representative, and I forget who the Geological Survey representative was.
The three of us were on it. So Max Kohler is one of my very good friends. Max
was a field rider taking care of rain gauges or something out in the Los Angeles
area. Bernard met him and brought him into Washington. He became an
outstanding figure in the field.
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Were most of these people who came into hydrology meteorologists?
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I don't believe so.
Q.
Were they mostly civil engineers?
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Probably. I forget what Max's basic training was, but I think it was engineering.
Meteorology is a big part of hydrology. You might argue whether meteorology
includes hydrology, but I think the other way around, hydrology would include
meteorology. But I belong to the American Meteorological Society and a lot of the
hydrologists do. I'm sure Max Kohler, particularly people working for the Weather
Bureau, would be inclined to. Then, as time went on, the American Meteorological
Society started having an interest in hydrology. It's quite proper that they do.
So getting back to your questions, now one of the men in the office, Dwight Nunn,
left the office and went over with the Nuclear Power, what do they call the
commission?
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