Report of Hydrologic Advisory Committee to the Research Division of the United States Soil Conservation Service

Abstract

Membership of the Committee is as follows: J. E. Church; W. W. Horner; A. F. Meyer; C. M. Saville; L. K. Sherman; Samuel Shulits; R. N, Towl; F. J. Veihmeyer; Robert E. Horton (Chairman). The Executive. Sub‐Committee consists of Messrs. Horner, Sherman, and the Chairman. A Special Sub‐Committee to deal with all phases of surface‐ and channel‐erosion, transportation, and sedimentation was appointed in 1938, consisting of R. N. Towl and Professor Samuel Shulits (Chairman).Meetings of the Advisory Committee have been held at Washington on an average of at least once a month during the past year. As a rule these meetings are attended only by members of the Executive Sub‐Committee. Thus far these members only have been provided with transportation. Other members of the Committee are kept in touch with the work by correspondence. In addition to these meetings various members of the Committee have inspected Soil Conservation Service field‐experiment research work accessible to them and have assisted and advised field‐men directly and by correspondence in carrying on their work. The Chairman has inspected the Watershed and Hydrologic Studies at Freehold, and the Soil and Water Conservation Experiment Stations at Marlboro and Beemerville, New Jersey, Marcellus, New York, and the Hydraulic Laboratory at Spartanburg, South Carolina. W. W. Horner has undertaken to follow closely the experimental work at Edwardsville, Illinois. In addition to other meetings, a meeting was held at Coshocton, Ohio, Experimental Watershed, May 2–3, 1938, attended by Messrs. Horner, Sherman, and the Chairman and by about one hundred other persons, including Dr. W. C. Lowdermilk, Chief of the Research Division, and also C. E. Ramser, of the Soil Conservation Service, who acted as Chairman. In addition there were present representatives of other United States Government bureaus interested in hydrologic research, including the United States Forest Service, United States Weather Bureau, and United States Geological Survey. In addition to a field‐inspection, a full day was spent in the discussion of problems and methodology of hydrologic research.