This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Peter Young of Lancaster University. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven in Lancaster, November 7, 2023.

The original YouTube video can be found here.

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:30 Introduction by Keith Beven
0:01:26 Family background, apprenticeship in aeronautics, and path to a PhD in Cambridge
0:07:20 PhD in automatic control
0:09:50 Research stay in the USA (1968–1970)
0:11:11 Return to Cambridge, lectureship, first work on the environment
0:16:28 Professorial fellowship at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU
0:21:52 Peel Inlet (WA) study on algae
0:27:40 Northern Territory study on uranium mines
0:29:52 Work with Tom Beer on tracer models and dead zones
0:31:36 Development of the CAPTAIN package
0:34:09 Sabbatical in Cambridge; move to Lancaster in 1981
0:37:08 Meeting Keith Beven; move to Lancaster and work on tracer studies
0:41:18 Continuation of CAPTAIN in MATLAB
0:47:11 Transfer functions and data-based mechanistic modelling philosophy
0:51:13 Identifying non-linearity in data-based mechanistic models
0:59:29 Awards

License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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