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'''Laurie Wirt''' (1958–2006) was an American scientist working in the fields of hydrology and aquatic geochemistry. After gaining her Master’s degree in Geosciences from the University of Arizona in 1989, she went on to join the U.S. Geological Survey, where she worked in Tucson, Arizona, and later in Denver, Colorado. |
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== Life == |
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Laurie Wirt was born in 1958. She died on June 26, 2006, in a kayaking accident on the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hamilton |first1=Jim |title=Remembering Laurie Wirt |url=https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/in_memory/1980/lauriewirt |website=Amherst College Magazine |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>. Her death was reported by Southwest Hydrology magazine <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Southwest Hydrology Staff Report |title=In Memory of Laurie Wirt |journal=Southwest Hydrology |date=September 2006 |volume=5 |issue=5 |page=32 |url=http://www.swhydro.arizona.edu/archive/V5_N5/SWHVol5Issue5.pdf}}</ref>. |
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== Education == |
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== Career and research == |
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It <ref>{{cite book |last1=Glennon |first1=Robert |title=Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It |date=May 11, 2009 |publisher=Island Press |isbn=1597264369}}</ref> relationship between Big Chino Aquifer and surface water in the Verde, aquifer provides 80% of surface flow "drawing down the aquifer will devaste the river". Highlights opposition by developers |
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Laurie Wirt (1958–2006) was an American scientist working in the fields of hydrology and aquatic geochemistry. After gaining her Master’s degree in Geosciences from the University of Arizona in 1989, she went on to join the U.S. Geological Survey, where she worked in Tucson, Arizona, and later in Denver, Colorado.
Life
Laurie Wirt was born in 1958. She died on June 26, 2006, in a kayaking accident on the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado[1]. Her death was reported by Southwest Hydrology magazine [2].
Education
Career and research
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It [3] relationship between Big Chino Aquifer and surface water in the Verde, aquifer provides 80% of surface flow "drawing down the aquifer will devaste the river". Highlights opposition by developers
References
- ^ Hamilton, Jim. "Remembering Laurie Wirt". Amherst College Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ Southwest Hydrology Staff Report (September 2006). "In Memory of Laurie Wirt" (PDF). Southwest Hydrology. 5 (5): 32.
- ^ Glennon, Robert (May 11, 2009). Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It. Island Press. ISBN 1597264369.