Nikola P. Prokopovich papers, 1947-1994.

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Nikola P. Prokopovich papers, 1947-1994.

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The Nikola P. Prokopovich Papers document United States Bureau of Reclamation geologist Nikola Prokopovich's work on irrigation, land subsidence, and geochemistry in California. The collection includes draft reports and memoranda, published writings, photographs, slides, and two films related to state-wide water projects. Prokopovich was particularly interested in the engineering geology of the Central Valley Project's canals and dam sites and in the effects of the state water projects on the surrounding landscape. The papers contain personal drafts of Bureau of Reclamation publications and internal reports dealing with California's Central Valley Project, Solano Project, and smaller multi-regional projects, including a study of irrigation history in the San Joaquin Valley and investigations into subsidence along Arizona's Salt-Gila Aqueduct. These drafts and reports include information about engineering investigations of several dam sites and canals; studies of land subsidence and hydrocompaction; and geochemical studies. Prokopovich's professional activities are further documented in his published writings and in reports from conferences that he attended in the course of his work. The collection also includes an extensive collection of slides and photographs. These provide a detailed visual record of Prokopovich's work and study of the landscape. The photographs depict canal building and maintenance; geologic investigations of dam sites; sedimentation in canals and tunnels; and hydrocompaction and land subsidence in the areas around the canals and dams.

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University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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Nikola P. Prokopovich (1918-1999) was a California-based geologist for the United States Bureau of Reclamation. He was born in the Ukraine and came to the United States in 1950. He earned his doctorate in Geological Sciences in Germany, where he lived for a time before emigrating. After his arrival in the United States with his wife, Sylvia, Prokopovich worked a series of odd jobs followed by more meaningful work at the University of Minnesota, and later with the US Geological Survey. Eventually...