DEATH OF LUNA LEOPOLD

Luna Leopold, former Chief Hydrologist of the USGS and one of the principal founders of the National Research Program within WRD, passed away last week at the age of 90.  Throughout his 22-year career in WRD and his subsequent tenure as a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Leopold had a most profound impact on the earth sciences.  For his scientific contributions, he received the National Medal of Science in 1991.  Leopold was the recipient of other awards too numerous to mention in full.  These honors included the Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Department of the Interior; Warren Prize, National Academy of Sciences; Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union; and the Penrose Medal, Geological Society of America.  He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, California Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and several other professional scientific societies, and was a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.