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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLaughlin, Mark
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36717