About the Book
This is the third book in a series that intermixes the biography of the author with the authors opinions on environmental issues, religion, and brief narratives on Poland, Athens, Thailand, Spain, Egypt and Venice. The intent of the books is to open discussions on human origins and direction neede to enhance quality of life World Wide.
About the Author: Biography for VERNON LEE FINNEY EDUCATION: School City State From To Degree Year Thomas Jefferson Council Bluffs IA 1953 1957 High School 1957 Iowa State Univ. Ames IA 1957 1959 ---------------- ----- Florida St. Univ. Tallahassee FLA 1960 1962 B.S. 1962 Omaha Univ. Omaha NEB 1963 1964 ---------------- ----- Florida St. Univ. Tallahassee FLA 1964 1967 M.S 1967 Univ. of Missouri Columbia MO 1980 1987 ---------------- ------ Univ. of Minnesota St. Paul MN 1991 1991 ---------------- ------ CHIEF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Geology 40 Semester Hours, Mathematics 18 Semester Hours, Chemistry 12 Semester Hours CHIEF GRADUATE STUDIES: Geology 28 Semester Hours, Mathematics 10 Semester Hours, Chemistry 6 Semester Hours AWARD PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS: Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Performance -- FY 1994 PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS V.L. Finney, M.A. Cocke, T.J. Viel, 1997, Re-establishing a mobile stream bed Lower Clear Creek watershed, Shasta County, CA, USA: Engineering Geology and the Environment, vol. 3, pg. 2675-2680, A.A. Balkema/Rotterdam/Brookfield, Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036-9704, USA. V.L. Finney, M.A. Cocke, S.T. Moorhead, Jay Klug, 1995, Nutrient Analysis Of The Malibu Basin Using The AGNPS Model: Oral presentation at the July 16-19, 1995 Interdisciplinary Conference, Animal Waste And The Land-Water Interface, Fayetteville, Arkansas. K. Banasik, V.L. Finney, S. Needham, and R.A. Young, 1993, Comparison Of The Lumped Parameter Models DR-USLE And SEGMO With The Distributed Model AGNPS: International Symposium On Runoff And Sediment Yield Modeling, Warsaw, Poland. Finney, V. L., 1993, Using the Single Event Model AGNPS to Estimate Average Annual Sediment Yield from Lindero Canyon, California, USA: International Symposium On Runoff And Sediment Yield Modeling, Warsaw, Poland. Finney, V.L., 1988, Sediment Variability Mark Twain Lake, Missouri: Hydraulic Engineering Proceedings of 1988 National Conference, HY DIV/ASCE, Colorado Springs, Colorado, pp. 944-950. Finney, V.L., 1982, Acid Pond Drainage: Bulletin Of Engineering Geologists, vol. XIX, no. 1, 49-54.
