Inter‐university conference on hydrology

Abstract

On August 7–9, 1962, an Inter‐University Conference on Hydrology was held at Lake Arrowhead, California. Participants included representatives from nineteen universities; in addition, observers from eight federal agencies and the American Geophysical Union were in attendance. The Conference was sponsored by the Water Resources Center of the University of California; arrangements were made by a steering committee consisting of representatives from three California universities.The meeting was organized in response to a need for expanded educational and research programs in hydrology at universities to provide the manpower and new knowledge required for present and future water resources developments. Several recent reports, including those by the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Water Resources, have emphasized deficiencies in the science of hydrology. The point was clearly made in Scientific Hydrology, published in June 1962, by the Ad Hoc Panel on Hydrology of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, as follows: The water development and management problems of the last few years have created a need for scientific hydrology that exceeds the capacity of the relatively few individuals who have come into the field from bordering disciplines. The time has come to encourage colleges and universities to make a conscious effort to develop scientists trained to work on hydrologic problems from a broad base in the fundamental sciences.