[Communications] MWRD Commissioner Du Buclet Special Black History Month Edition #2

[Kimberly Neely Du Buclet]

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George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
George Washington Carver is regarded as one of America's greatest agricultural researchers, educators, and a leader in promoting environmentalism.

The first
President of Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, invited Carver to work as the head of its Agriculture Department. During his 47 years there Carver's work included groundbreaking research on plant biology, much of which focused on the development of new uses for crops including peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans and pecans.

Carver promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. His innovations in the field of crop rotation are considered breakthroughs in resource conservation, by preserving soil and making farms more productive.

Carver may have been one of the first scientists to look at systems through the lens of biomimicry; he observed that nature produces no waste. What is consumed is returned to the whole in another usable form.

Carver believed that in the natural world everything is a part of the whole. He understood that nothing exists in isolation, everything is inextricably connected, and ignoring that fact can have disastrous effects.

Carver's inventions include hundreds of products, including more than 300 from peanuts (milk, plastics, paints, dyes, cosmetics, medicinal oils, soap, ink, wood stains), 118 from sweet potatoes (molasses, postage stamp glue, flour, vinegar and synthetic rubber) and even a type of gasoline.
Warren Washington (1936 - Present)
Warren Washington is an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric sciences and climate research, specializing in computer modeling of the Earth's climate. As the second African-American to earn a doctorate in the atmospheric sciences, Washington has served as a role model for generations of young researchers from many backgrounds.

Among
Washington's many prestigious appointments, in 2009 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering the development of coupled climate models, their use on parallel supercomputing architectures, and their interpretation.

Washington won the
1997 U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Program Exceptional Service Award for Atmospheric Science, for the development and application of advanced coupled atmospheric-ocean general circulation models to study the impacts of human activities on future climate.

Washington's computer models for studying the impacts of climate change in the 21st century were used extensively in the
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment, for which National Center for Atmospheric Resources scientists, including Washington, and colleagues around the world shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Solomon G. Brown (1829 - 1906)
Solomon G. Brown, known as a lecturer and scientific technician, became the first African American employee at the Smithsonian Institution working continuously from 1852 until 1906.  He also played a significant role in the implementation and installation of the first electric telegraph and was well versed in the study of natural history.

At the age of fifteen, he began working at the Washington, D.C. post office where he was assigned to assist
Joseph Henry and Samuel F.B. Morse on the installation of the first Morse telegraph line in the nation.  Despite his youth, Brown was one of the technicians who helped set up the telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.  Brown continued to work for Samuel F.B. Morse for the next seven years until he got a job at the Smithsonian.

During Brown’s 54-year tenure at the Smithsonian he held a few roles including preparing maps and drawings for lectures and working in the International Exchange Service. Brown was also self-educated and while at the Smithsonian obtained considerable knowledge in the field of natural history. He became well known for his illustrated lectures on natural history and lectured frequently at scientific societies throughout the Washington, DC area.
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