BOARD02022

• Board Meeting Date: 3/11/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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at the University are in a position now that
we weren't twenty years ago to offer to the
Board scientific services of high quality.

May I add at this point that this proj-
ect is not solely a project of the University
of Colorado but is a joint cooperative proj- I
ect between the University of Colorado and
Colorado State University and a very large and
very important part of the project will be
carried on here with the scientists and meteo-
rologists at Colorado State University.

Now I am not going to expound on the
project myself but merely make this introduc-
tion and ask Dr. Roberts to tell us about it.
It is, of course, in the person of Dr. Roberts
and the work that he has been doing at the
University within the last ten years that we
at the University are primarily in a position
to make a contribution of this magnitude. So
Mr. Chairman I would now like to turn the
microphone over to Dr. Roberts for the detail
of this program."

DR. ROBERTS:

,

"Mr. Chairman, Director and members of the
Board, I am very pleased to have an opportun-
ity to come to present to you for my own or-
ganization and for my colleagues, a proposal
to conduct, as Mr. Garnsey has said, some
basic research dealing with what to me is
by far and away the most important problem
effecting the economic future of our nation.
It has been utterly incredible to me that so
little has really been known, and so little
has really been done, to investigate the
problem of the long term trend in available
water resources in different river basins of
the nation. What we are proposing to do here
is to undertake, in a very straightforward
fashion, some of what are really elementary
and preliminary steps of the basic research
nature to try to find out something about how
these water resources change from year to
year, of what kind of expectation we can have
in future periods based on the history of the
past periods for which there are available
records, and also what kind of changes can be
looked for that are completely outside the
realm of factual experience of water flow
within the particular area that we are inter-
ested in.

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Now the proposal that we are placing