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Wetland Science & Practice
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2020-01
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I taught Wetland Ecology 25 times: 15 as an Adjunct
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and
UM-Dearborn while I worked at the USGS-Great Lakes
Science Center in Ann Arbor and 10 as the Empire Innovation
Professor of Wetland Science at SUNY--The College
at Brockport in my native western New York State. During
the first year in giving the wetland hydrology lectures
in Michigan, founded on water budgets, I realized that
non-hydrology students had great difficulty understanding
groundwater. They can see surface water and precipitation
and likely learned about evapotranspiration in a plant ecology
course. However, groundwater is an unseen mystery,
and typical text material is too complicated to unravel that
mystery. Fortunately, about that time, my friend, the late
Tom Winter, handed me the new USGS Circular 1139 –
Ground Water and Surface Water: a Single Resource (Winter
et al. 1998), and I quickly realized that I had a solution.