James E. Church
James Edward Church, Jr. (15 February 1869 – 5 August 1959) is best known for having developed the Mount Rose snow sampler in 1906, the first instrument for measuring snow water content. It is still in use today.[1] He was also active in promoting the then nascent sciences of snow hydrology and water supply forecasting.[2]
Church, who received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, was born in Holly, Michigan on 15 February 1869. As a Classics professor he taught Latin, German, and fine arts at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1892 to 1939[3] and was the first person of European descent to ascend Mount Rose (1896).[4] Church died in Reno, Nevada, on 5 August 1959. The Church Fine Arts Complex on the University of Nevada, Reno campus—which opened in 1962, three years after his death—is named after him.[5]
References
- ↑ Snow Survey Centennial | Nevada NRCS
- ↑ "Western Snow Conference: Honorarium" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Dr. James E. Church - slide 19". Archived from the original on 2008-01-06. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ↑ "Snow surveying with Dr. Church". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ↑ "Church Fine Arts | Campus Tour | University of Nevada, Reno". Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
External links
- Mount Rose snow sampler
- A Guide to the Papers of James Edward Church NC96, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. (includes biographies of Church and of his wife, Florence)
- A Guide to the Papers of James Edward Church AC 0248, University Archive, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
- The history of Church: how NRCS’ snow survey program got started Archived 2018-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, Natural Resources Conservation Service Vermont.