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FRANKLIN F. SNYDER
FRANKLIN F. SNYDER
Pages 306-313
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, Ohio State University awarded him a professional civil engineer degree. Although he graduated during the Great Depression, when promising engineers often encountered difficulties finding employment, Snyder obtained work in state and federal agencies.
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A 1938 paper, "Synthetic Unit Graphs; A Concept of Runoff Phenomena, and Predicting Headwater River Stages Directly from Precipitation," published in the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union outlined the concept and the procedures. The concept became known as the Snyder Synthetic Unit Hydrograph; the magnitude of this contribution is best illustrated by an observation that
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The duties involved formulating policies and basic procedures, preparing technical instructions and manuals, reviewing field proposals, and developing hydrologic techniques related to flood forecasting methods and reservoir regulation
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In addition to the publications mentioned previously, other treatises published were, "Flood Routing," in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers; "Cooperative Hydrologic Investigations" by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, "Storm Runoff," a section in the book Engineering Hydraulics by Hunter Rouse, "Large Floods from Melting Snow and Rain and Evaporation on the Great Lakes," in the Proceedings of the International Association for Scientific Hydrology, "Synthetic Flood Frequency," and "Spillway Design" in the Hydraulic Journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers; and "Floods from Breaking Dams," presented at a workshop of the Water Resources Council. After retirement from the Corps of Engineers, he continued his profession as a private consultant on government and private projects in Mexico, Columbia, Greece, Jamaica, Canada, Pakistan, India, Sudan, and the United States.
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Other organizational affiliations and honoraria include being elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985, fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, registered professional engineer and land surveyor in Ohio, named to the Corps of Engineers Gallery of Distinguished Employees, awarded the War Department's Exceptional Civilian Service Award for his contribution on the Rhine River, awarded the James R Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and receipt of the Outstanding Civil Engineer Alumni Award from the Ohio State University Civil Engineering Alumni Association.
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312 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES interests included mastering the use of the computer along with following the stock market and futures trading. We still think of him every day and wish we could ask him some questions about his life or for advice on some matters.
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