Dr. R.W. Gerdel: A History of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory in Soda Springs, California
Dr. James E. Church is revered as the "Father of Snow Surveying" but Church did not have the equipment or academic training to delve more deeply into the complex physical structure of the snowpack. A major advance for scientific research into the Sierra Nevada snowpack would come in 1945 w...
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ftohiostateu:oai:kb.osu.edu:1811/36717 2023-05-15T18:02:42+02:00 Dr. R.W. Gerdel: A History of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory in Soda Springs, California McLaughlin, Mark 2009-04 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36717 en_US eng Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University McLaughlin, Mark. 2009. Dr. R.W. Gerdel: A History of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory in Soda Springs, California. Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 16 pages. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36717 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Gerdel Robert W Central Sierra Snow Laboratory (CSSL) California Article 2009 ftohiostateu 2020-08-22T19:38:52Z Dr. James E. Church is revered as the "Father of Snow Surveying" but Church did not have the equipment or academic training to delve more deeply into the complex physical structure of the snowpack. A major advance for scientific research into the Sierra Nevada snowpack would come in 1945 when U.S. Weather Bureau physicist, Dr. Robert Gerdel was directed to build the Central Sierra Snow Research Laboratory at Soda Springs (near Donner Pass). This article is a brief history of the CSSL and Dr. Gerdel's contributions to the research and the building of the laboratory. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Research Ohio State University (OSU): Knowledge Bank Gerdel ENVELOPE(-149.317,-149.317,-85.983,-85.983) |
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Dr. James E. Church is revered as the "Father of Snow Surveying" but Church did not have the equipment or academic training to delve more deeply into the complex physical structure of the snowpack. A major advance for scientific research into the Sierra Nevada snowpack would come in 1945 when U.S. Weather Bureau physicist, Dr. Robert Gerdel was directed to build the Central Sierra Snow Research Laboratory at Soda Springs (near Donner Pass). This article is a brief history of the CSSL and Dr. Gerdel's contributions to the research and the building of the laboratory. |
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McLaughlin, Mark. 2009. Dr. R.W. Gerdel: A History of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory in Soda Springs, California. Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 16 pages. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36717 |
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