History of Hydrology Interviews

11. Prof. Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz


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This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Zbigniew Kundzewicz from the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. He is interviewed by Dr. Mikołaj Piniewski of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland at the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, 29 May, 2019.


The original YouTube video can be found here.


Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:22 Introduction by Mikołaj Piniewski
0:02:40 Youth and background
0:04:08 Studies at the Warsaw University of Technology
0:06:36 PhD at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
0:08:02 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Karlsruhe
0:12:23 The Tison Award
0:13:06 Unsolved problems in hydrology
0:16:14 Work at the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment of the Polish Academy of Sciences
0:18:46 Interest in climate change
0:22:56 Work for the IPCC
0:26:56 Most important achievement
0:29:13 Paper in Science in 2008
0:33:29 “Climate change and water” IPCC report
0:35:48 The Hydrological Sciences Journal editorship
0:41:02 In which direction does hydrology go
0:46:56 Growth of Chinese science
0:51:01 Family
0:55:06 Message to the young generation of hydrologists


License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


Acknowledgments:
Video & editing: Leszek Szymański, Frankie Films
Sponsorship: Dr. Mikołaj Piniewski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences; Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

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