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","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR024i002p00547","usgsCitation":"Wenzel, L., and Greenlee, A., 1943, A method for determining transmissibility‐ and storage‐coefficients by tests of multiple well‐systems: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 24, no. 2, p. 547-564, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR024i002p00547.","productDescription":"18 p.","startPage":"547","endPage":"564","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378173,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"24","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Wenzel, Leland K.","contributorId":46077,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Wenzel","given":"Leland K.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":798016,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Greenlee, A.L.","contributorId":239885,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Greenlee","given":"A.L.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":798017,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}} ,{"id":70213028,"text":"70213028 - 1943 - Report of Committee on Runoff, 1942–43","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-04T18:02:40.604887","indexId":"70213028","displayToPublicDate":"1943-09-04T12:45:06","publicationYear":"1943","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of Committee on Runoff, 1942–43","docAbstract":"The Committee on Runoff was not formally constituted until February 6, 1943, when the members of the Section, as listed above, were asked to serve. At the suggestion of President CHURCH the Committee has been so selected that there is Nation‐wide geographic distribution from West to East with the majority of the Committee composed of younger men.
If the 33 papers prepared for discussion at the regular sessions of the Section of Hydrology at the annual meeting of 1943 can be used as a measure, war instead of curtailing the activities of the Section has acted as an impetus. Also in the field of hydrology as a whole, war activities have apparently not resulted in a decrease of activities. There has been, however, a gradual decrease of activities in the field of research and an increase of activities in the field of applied hydrology. The enormous expansion of our industrial machine and the great concentration of armies and industrial workers into restricted areas; the demands for water, for power, for food and for municipal use; and operations underlying many of our war efforts, secret and otherwise—all these have created problems requiring the full‐time effort of hydrologists, both in private and governmental service. It is with some degree of satisfaction that each one of us can feel that either as a result of our past research or in our present positions we have been or are doing our bit to win the war.
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The Federal agency in which this service centers is the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey. The Ground Water Division of this branch has a technical personnel of nearly 100 geologists, engineers, and physicists, and its work is supported by the chemists of the Quality of Water Division and the engineers of the other Divisions of the Branch. It functions through a central office in Washington and 25 widely distributed field‐offices. Moreover, this service is effectively supported by the State Geological surveys, State Engineer offices, and other State agencies concerned with water‐resources, not only in the 34 States in which there is formal cooperation with the Federal Geological Survey in ground‐water investigations but also in those States in which there are no formal cooperative agreements. The magnitude of the civilian service rendered is indicated by the fact that to date about 1,600 reports on water‐supplies from wells have been made to the War and Navy Departments and other war agencies by the Geological Survey and cooperating State organizations.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR024i002p00418-2","usgsCitation":"Meinzer, O.E., 1943, Appendix B—The work of the Geological Survey and cooperating state agencies on ground water for war purposes, v. 24, no. 2, p. 418-420, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR024i002p00418-2.","productDescription":"3 p.","startPage":"418","endPage":"420","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378168,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"24","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Meinzer, O. E.","contributorId":10020,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Meinzer","given":"O.","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":797998,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70213026,"text":"70213026 - 1943 - Report of Committee on Glaciers, 1942–43","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-04T17:18:41.035602","indexId":"70213026","displayToPublicDate":"1943-09-04T12:06:04","publicationYear":"1943","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of Committee on Glaciers, 1942–43","docAbstract":"The personnel of the Committee at present is as follows:
Harry Fielding Reid, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Johns Hopkins University, 608 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland
William H. Hobbs, Professor Emeritus of Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Colonel Lawrence Martin, Chief, Division of Maps, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
James E. Church, Professor of Meteorology and President, International Commission of Snow and Glaciers, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
First Lieutenant William Osgood Field, Jr., home address, 18 West Twelfth Street, New York City
Oliver Kehrlein, Chairman, Committee on Glacier Studies, Sierra Club, 1050 Mills Tower, San Francisco, California
Kenneth N. Phillips, Associate Hydraulic Engineer, Water Resources Branch, Geological Survey, Chairman, Research Committee of the Masamas, 606 Post‐Office Building, Portland, Oregon
William S. Cooper, Professor of Botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Lieutenant Colonel Gerald FitzGerald, Army Air Corps, Washington, D.C.
Laurence M. Gould, Professor of Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Arthur Johnson, Hydraulic Engineer, Conservation Branch, Geological Survey, 1105 Washington Building, Tacoma, Washington
François E. Matthes (Chairman), Senior Geologist, Section of Glacial Geology, Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
The Committee is fortunate in having its membership reinforced by the addition of ARTHUR JOHNSON, who for several years has had charge of the repetitive plane‐table surveys of the lower Nisqually Glacier, on Mount Rainier—a project which the Geological Survey is carrying on in cooperation with the city of Tacoma, Washington. To him the Committee is indebted for data concerning the losses in volume of ice which the Nisqually Glacier is sustaining from year to year.
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Having been stationed in Houston, Texas, in the heart of the Gulf Coast Area for four and a half years, the writer has had an opportunity to view the great similarity of the problems confronting the petroleum geologist and engineer and the ground‐water hydrologist. Both groups deal with the accumulation, movement, and withdrawal of fluid from underground strata, yet each group is content to study its own literature and use its own terminology without much concern for the other. The petroleum and ground‐water engineer, independently of one another, have developed mathematical formulas for the determination of permeability from field‐data. These formulas use the same basic principles of physics and the initial papers on the subject by both groups were published within two years of one another. Because of the similarity in the technology and problems of the petroleum engineer and the ground‐water hydrologist there is a definite need for closer cooperation. Some of the problems are so closely related that their solution rests in cooperative studies.
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Some time previous to 1823, Levi Disbrow studied the drilling methods used in the western salt industry and came east to become the first professional water well driller in the states north of the Potomac River. Possibly the first artesian water well in the United States was constructed in 1820 in Charleston, South Carolina, by sinking an iron pipe through a clay bed. Auger boring for artesian water appears to have been first used in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1823; however, the first successful auger-bored well was not completed in that city until after 1825. The drilling methods and tools were copied from a description of a well bored in London, England. Between 1821 and 1833 auger boring of artesian wells began in the Black Belt of Alabama and possibly in Mississippi. The process of jetting wells, invented in 1884, became the chief method of sinking artesian wells in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain by the end of the century. 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