Luna Leopold: A Brief Biography Of Luna Leopold

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Luna Leopold was a leading hydrologist and geomorphologist in the United States. Luna was born in 1915 to his father Aldo Leopold and died in 2006. Like his father he shared the idea that humans should live in harmony with the land and observing the nature. Luna graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1936 as a civil engineer and joined the U.S. Soil Conservation Service specializing in hydrology. In World War II he served in the Army Corps of Engineers weather service and earned a master's degree in meteorology and physics from the University of California Los Angeles in 1944. When his father died in 1948, before his book was published, Luna finished writing the book so it could be published the next year. The book was called A Sand