This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Alberto Montanari of the University of Bologna. Alberto was the 2018 Henry Darcy medallist of the EGU. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven at the IUGG-IAHS General Assembly, Berlin, July 14, 2023.

The original YouTube video can be found here.

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:33 Introduction by Keith Beven
0:00:52 Background and interest in water
0:02:23 PhD at Politecnico di Milano with Renzo Rosso
0:05:12 A life in athletics
0:06:00 Renzo Rosso as a supervisor
0:07:46 Introduction to stochastic hydrology
0:08:47 Influential hydrologists
0:10:41 Member of the major risk committee of Italy
0:12:59 Risk communication in climate change
0:16:02 Resilience and the value of historical data
0:19:28 Service to the hydrological community
0:21:48 Editor-in-Chief of Water Resources Research and collaboration networks
0:23:42 Comments on the Panta Rhei hydrological decade
0:25:38 Awards
0:26:58 Commitment to open science
0:29:00 Closure

License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Podcast: Pau Wiersma