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PETER S. EAGLESON
PETER S. EAGLESON
Pages 88-91
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Peter Eagleson was a pioneer in the field of hydrology. He expanded the scope of the field to encompass both engineer ing applications with important societal value and science investigations of the global water cycle, with broad and deep impacts on understanding of how the Earth system works.
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:705–76) -- he demonstrated the potential of this new thinking for solving some longstanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary challenges.1 In 1991 the National Research Council published Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences, the report of a committee chaired by Eagleson that recommended a new vision for the field of study built on his pioneering ideas.
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His wife of 47 years, the former Beverly Grossmann Rich, died October 21, 2021. 2 Jeff Dozier remembered that "At one of the meetings of the committee that produced the Blue Book, we opened with a moment of silence for the Boston Red Sox who had just lost the American League Championship to the Oakland Athletics" in 1990.
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