{"id":2884,"date":"2011-04-12T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2011-04-12T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T10:58:46","slug":"sad-news-stanley-schumm-died-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/04\/12\/sad-news-stanley-schumm-died-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad news &#8211; Stanley Schumm died this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2885\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/04\/12\/sad-news-stanley-schumm-died-this-weekend\/10_04-schumm\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2885\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/10_04-Schumm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2887\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/04\/12\/sad-news-stanley-schumm-died-this-weekend\/10_04-schumm-2-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2887\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/10_04-Schumm-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>Sad news this morning that Stanley Schumm, one of the all time greats of geomorphology, died at the weekend.\u00a0 Schumm was ostensibly a fluvial geomorphologist who worked on the dynamics of river systems.\u00a0 There is a great, though now slightly out of date, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geomorph.org\/mm\/ssch.html\">write-up of his contribution to the discipline on the IAG website<\/a>.\u00a0 Whilst he did not work explicitly on slopes for much of his career, many of the concepts that he developed have had a huge influence on work in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, everyone who works on natural systems should read and digest his book &#8220;To interpret the Earth: ten ways to be wrong&#8221; (shown to the right).\u00a0 The work is summarised in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homepage.montana.edu\/~kmw\/\">that can be accessed from this page<\/a> (listed under week 15 in the course schedule).<\/p>\n<p>As long ago as 1959 the AGU recognised the contribution of Stanley Schumm with the Horton Award.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news this morning that Stanley Schumm, one of the all time greats of geomorphology, died at the weekend.\u00a0 Schumm was ostensibly a fluvial geomorphologist who worked on the dynamics of river systems.\u00a0 There is a great, though now slightly out of date, write-up of his contribution to the discipline on the IAG website.\u00a0 Whilst he did not work explicitly on slopes for much of his career, many of the &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}