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Jeff Opperman
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Contributor, Forbes
Chagrin Falls
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astrobiology,science evolution, neuroscience biotech, medicine ecology, biology
Anything not local.
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By Jeff Opperman| Forbes Verified Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man. - Gilbert F. White, the “father of floodplain management.”That aphorism, which has been quoted by floodplain managers for nearly a century, comes from White’s 1942 doctoral thesis, making this perhaps one of most enduring phrases to ever emerge from a dissertation (a literary form not typically known for literary flair).
By Jeff Opperman| Scientific American Verified Imagine standing on a riverbank as thousands of dead salmon float past, belly-up and rotting in the hot California air. That's the sight—and smell—that greeted people along the Klamath River in September 2002, when 35,000 fish perished there in the span of a few days. They were victims of warm water temperatures and low river levels, both caused by dams and diversions that altered the river’s flow.
By Jeff Opperman| Forbes Verified Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man. - Gilbert F. White, the “father of floodplain management.”That aphorism, which has been quoted by floodplain managers for nearly a century, comes from White’s 1942 doctoral thesis, making this perhaps one of most enduring phrases to ever emerge from a dissertation (a literary form not typically known for literary flair).
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Forbes
Chagrin Falls, United States