{"id":290,"date":"2010-04-20T19:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydrogeo.wordpress.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:54:58","slug":"more-tributes-to-reds-wolman-from-all-those-who-miss-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/more-tributes-to-reds-wolman-from-all-those-who-miss-him\/","title":{"rendered":"More tributes to Reds Wolman from all those who miss him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two months ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/02\/two_tributes_to_reds_wolman_19.php\">noted with great sadness<\/a> the passing of a legendary figure in fluvial geomorphology, M. Gordon &#8220;Reds&#8221; Wolman, long-time professor at The Johns Hopkins University and inspiration to hundreds, if not thousands, of geomorphologists, hydrologists, and environmental scientists around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two months, Wolman&#8217;s students and colleagues have done an outstanding job of paying tribute to our hero. On April 11th, generations of Wolman&#8217;s students gathered on the Hopkins campus for a memorial service, which included a eulogy from a childhood friend and reflections from Hopkins geomorphology colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/~dogee\/g\/?id=118\">Peter Wilcock<\/a>. The day before the memorial, many of the attendees conducted their own Reds&#8217; style field trip to some of his favorite locations in Baltimore County and waved their arms and debated some of the same questions Reds had spent decades pondering. (Sadly, I could not attend the celebration, because I was leading my hydrogeology class on a field trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cosw\/\">Congaree National Park<\/a>, but somehow I feel like Reds would understand.)<\/p>\n<p>Among the lasting tributes to Wolman are a couple of JHU <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.jhu.edu\/wse\/Reds_Wolman\/memory\/pages\">web<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/webapps.jhu.edu\/jhuniverse\/featured\/reds_wolman\/\">pages<\/a>, two wonderful videos (below), and perhaps my favorite memorial <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.jhu.edu\/wse\/Reds_Wolman\/memory\/pages\">ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A permanent memorial tribute will be installed outside the classrooms in Ames Hall where Reds Wolman taught for more than a half century. Stones provided by students, colleagues and friends from around the world will be constructed into a path in a shape that mirrors a meandering river. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you still wondering what all the fuss was about (and still reading this post), please take a few more minutes and listen to the preface of one of Wolman&#8217;s seminal works and some reflections from Wolman&#8217;s colleagues and students (including, if you listen carefully, me) and from Wolman himself.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-vCDJ8T5usY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iB2e0Ei04pg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;]<\/p>\n<p>Reds is deeply missed by all who knew him, but these wonderful tributes give us a small way to hang on to the man who influenced, encouraged, and inspired us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two months ago, I noted with great sadness the passing of a legendary figure in fluvial geomorphology, M. Gordon &#8220;Reds&#8221; Wolman, long-time professor at The Johns Hopkins University and inspiration to hundreds, if not thousands, of geomorphologists, hydrologists, and environmental scientists around the world. 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