This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Andrea Rinaldo of EPFL and Università di Padova. Andrea was the 2005 John Dalton medallist of the EGU and the 2023 Stockholm Water Prize laureate. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven at EPFL, Switzerland, March 1, 2023.
The original YouTube video can be found here.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:30 Introduction by Keith Beven
0:01:16 Family background; 1966 Venice flood; studying Hydraulic Engineering in Padua
0:05:18 PhD at Purdue University (USA)
0:09:28 Return to Italy and University of Padua
0:12:00 Appointed Full Professor at Trento at age 30
0:13:37 First encounter with Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
0:16:17 Ignacio’s influence on Italian hydrology
0:17:39 Collaboration with Ignacio at MIT and Iowa
0:18:58 Meeting Jack Kennedy in Iowa
0:20:33 Geomorphological Unit Hydrograph; Scale Problems meeting in Caracas
0:21:54 First WRR paper with Alessandro Marani on catchment-scale solute transport
0:24:33 Fractal river basins book
0:26:34 Summer schools at Venice Academy of Sciences and Arts; Per Bak and self-organised criticality
0:30:33 Meeting Luna Leopold; river networks; minimum energy dissipation
0:38:15 Serendipity in research; ecohydrology of networks; biological invasions and biodiversity models
0:43:05 EPFL and ERC grant
0:45:40 Zebra mussels in the Mississippi
0:48:22 Network-conditioned disease propagation
0:50:20 Predicting cholera in Hawaii
0:57:44 Predicting COVID spread in Italy
0:59:29 Residence times of water in catchments
1:02:36 Working with younger researchers
1:04:20 Awards
1:06:21 Playing rugby for Italy
1:11:25 Why hydrology is exciting
1:12:27 Closure
1:12:42 Stockholm Water Prize
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