WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in his Administration:
Donald Remy, Nominee for Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department of Health and Human Services
Solomon Greene, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helaine Greenfeld, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice
Rajesh Nayak, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor
Kimberly Jones, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences
The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in his Administration:
Donald Remy, Nominee for Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department of Health and Human Services
Solomon Greene, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helaine Greenfeld, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice
Rajesh Nayak, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor
Kimberly Jones, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences
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Tree rings show evidence of droughts, floods along Potomac River
Tree rings in the Potomac River watershed show evidence of severe droughts and floods over the last 350 years – and scientists can pinpoint the years of those events well enough that they align with writings from people that include Thomas Jefferson.
The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Water Resources Research, could help water managers predict water shortages and floods in Washington, D.C.
“We’ve got these Jefferson quotes and other qualitative records – we have somebody saying the drought was really bad,” said Jim Stagge, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering at The Ohio State University. “But as an engineer, the next question is, how bad was it in terms of numbers? That’s what we wanted to find out. Because if we know how bad it was, we might be able to predict how bad it could be in the future.”