Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, renowned hydrologist who forged a new science linking water to ecosystems, dies at 80

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, who traced the underlying patterns of river networks and explored the interaction of water and the environment as a founder of the discipline of ecohydrology, died Sept. 28 in Venezuela. He was 80.

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