The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project: Interview with Wendy Pearson

Titles: The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project: Interview with Wendy Pearson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Wendy Pearson was born in Iowa in 1970. She studied meteorology at Iowa State University and then worked part-time for the U.S. Weather Service in Des Moines and then Springfield. In 1996 she interned at the River Forecast Center in Chanhassen, Minnesota, specializing in hydrology, then began work at the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Weather Service office as the staff hydrologist in June of 1996. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The techniques used to estimate the flood crests; the manner by which both the River Forecast Center and the Grand Forks office issued flood forecasts; the problems that developed in estimation and communication of the flood forecasts; post-flood controversy over the Weather Service's role in flood predictions; how the flooding and the ensuing controversy affected her and others in the Grand Forks office; and changes in prediction forecasts implemented by the Weather Service as a result of the flooding.

Dates

• 10/29/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Pearson, Wendy
• interviewer: Shoptaugh, Terry L.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 57
• Accession Number: AV1999.66.23

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project' <OH 57>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 49 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 105 minutes length

Subjects

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