BORN: October 8, 1915, Albuquerque, New Mexico
EDUCATION:
1936 B.S.: Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1944 M.S.: Physics-Meteorology, University of California, Los Angeles
1950 Ph.D.: Geology, Harvard University
POSITIONS HELD:
1937-40 Engineer, U.S. Soil Conservation Service, New Mexico
1940-46 Private to Captain, U.S. Army Weather Service, Army Air Force
1946-50 Chief Meteorologist, Pineapple Research Institute, Hawaii
1950-72 Hydraulic Engineer (1950-56), Chief Hydrologist (1956-66), SeniorResearch Hydrologist (1966-72), U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
1972-86 Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
1987 Professor Emeritus
AWARDS AND HONORS
1958 Kirk Bryan Award, Geological Society of America
1958 Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Department of the Interior
1963 Veth Medal, Royal Netherlands Geographical Society
1966 Medal of the University of Liege, Belgium
1968 Cullum Medal, American Geographical Society
1968 Member, National Academy of Sciences
1969 Distinguished Service Citation, University of Wisconsin
1969 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1970 D. Geography (Honorary), University of Ottowa, Canada
1972 D.Sc.(Honorary) Iowa Wesleyan College
1972 Rockefeller Public Service Award
1972 Fellow, American Philosophical Society
1973 Warren Prize, National Academy of Sciences, USA
1976 Award of “Rivers, 1976”, American Society of Civil Engineers
1980 D. Sc. (Honorary), University of Wisconsin
1981 D. Sc. (Honorary), University of St. Andrews, Scotland
1982 Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
1983 Forchheimer Foundation Senior Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1983 Busk Medal, Royal Geographical Society
1985 Bownocker Lecturer, Ohio State University
1986 Berkeley Citation, University of California
1986 Distinguished Professor Award (Honorary), University of Murcia, Spain
1988 Linsley Award, American Institute of Hydrology
1990 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture, National Academy of Sciences, Water Science and Technology Board
1991 Henry P. Caulfied Jr. Medal, American Water Resources Association
1991 Distinguished Career Award, Geological Society of America, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
1991 National Medal of Science
1991 Palladium Medal, Nat. Audubon Soc & Amer. Assoc. of Engineering Societies
1993 Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union
1994 Penrose Medal, Geological Society of America
2000 Ian Campbell Medal, Amer. Geological Institute