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Research Hydrologist Charles Perry from the U.S. Geological Survey gave a presentation on floods and the history of reservoir development to Professor Rick Musser's environmental reporting class at The Lawrence Journal-World.

Charles Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, briefed our environmental reporting class Thursday about his research on floods and the climate, water and the history of reservoir development in Kansas. We met down at the Lawrence Journal-World and are off and running with our story assignments for the summer.

Perry and Public Affairs Coordinator Donita Turk provided us with a lot of very useful information. For me personally, it was good to see pictures of the flood damage in North Lawrence from 1951. It helped provide a human perspective on the impact of floods.

Part of the information they gave to us included websites for both the USGS and the U.S. Geological Survey Kansas Water Science Center. The Science Center has tons of information. In fact, I found a place to look up water information by county.

I believe the USGS charts, graphs and images will prove very useful in our final multimedia, online reports. There is so much information, and so much vocab that I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. I am a very visual person, so I think running over to the Kansas Geological Survey this afternoon and trying and to get some maps of Clinton Lake, and the Kansas watershed districts will help me, and perhaps the rest of the class, begin to find some focus for our stories.