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CHAMP B. TANNER
CHAMP B. TANNER
Pages 376-393
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there was little cloubt that both nature ant! nurture were strong determinants in Champ's life course.
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It was uncler Professor Martin's influence that the promising freshman chemistry student traveled immediately to North Carolina State University to carry out graduate studies in soil science. Champ's description of his clays at North Carolina is clifficult to recluce to the page.
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was so effusive in his praise of Champ that Emil Truog, the friencl's major professor at Wisconsin, wrote Champ while he was still in the service en c! offerer!
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Despite his disability, the Army insisted that his reserve cIassification status shouIc! remain "Erosion Control Specialist." The military unclerestimatec!
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Again, Truog's unerring judgment came to the rescue. Truog had a policy of keeping the best graduate students at Wisconsin as the department built up following World War II.
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for measuring particle size distribution, air-fi~lec! porosity, and permeability.
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Most ciata available were inferred from soil water content measurements. For many reasons such measurements lack precision and, even worse, do not account for drainage from the soil profile.
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A suction drainage system combiner! with a very precise weighing mechanism permitted measurements of evapotranspiration over periods of time as brief as 15 minutes.
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en c! partly as a result of an extremely stimulating sabbatical spent with John Passioura in Australia, Champ turner!
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the water relations of alfalfa, another clifficult plant structure with which to clear. One of his favorite experiments clealt with the effect of direct solar racliation on onion umbels cluring flowering.
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were from the same direction. This project brought Champ almost as much fun as his favorite project on heat transfer.
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from the Soil Science Society of America en c! the Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology Awarc!
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in geophysics, eventually enterer! the private sector with a small, creative company producing ciata logging en c!
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some 150 technical articles, book chapters, en c! reports, as well as more than three clozen theses supervised.
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Potential evapotranspiration estimates by the approximate energy balance method of Penman.
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Hydraulic load cell lysimeter construction, calibration, and tests.
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Leaf growth, tuber growth, and water potential in potatoes.
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