Reminiscences from 40 years in hydrology (1967-2007)

摘要

I joined the Hydrological Survey of Ministry of Works (MOW) in 1967 and was posted to Christchurch for training. We were based at Kainga, near the Waimakariri River, on the same site as the Instrument Depot, with some of the data-processing staff in Bates Building in Central Christchurch. I set about finding out what field hydrology was all about – this involved one to two-week tours to the West Coast, or to Marlborough and Nelson, on jet-boat gauging surveys.