History of Hydrology Interviews

This episode features Professor Thomas Dunne (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), interviewed by Professor Keith Beven (Lancaster University, UK) at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 11 April 2019.

The original Youtube video can be found ⁠here⁠.

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:22 Introduction by Keith Beven
0:01:28 Going back to the beginning
0:04:25 Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University
0:08:24 PhD supervisor: Reds Wolman
0:09:44 Fieldwork in Vermont
0:19:07 Saturation-excess overland flow
0:23:06 Contact with John Hewlett; non-point source pollution
0:31:23 After Vermont: work in Kenya
0:45:25 McGill University; University of Washington
0:49:27 University of California, Santa Barbara
0:54:36 Working with Luna Leopold
1:03:18 Being lucky with events
1:07:45 Debris flow close to home
1:10:42 Work in the Amazon
1:15:52 Working with graduate students on paper reviews
1:20:09 Closure

License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:
Video and editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films
Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia
Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Huub Savenije from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Huub was the 2008 Henry Darcy medallist of the EGU. He is interviewed by Professor Okke Batelaan of Flinders University, Australia at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 11 April, 2019.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

⁠0:00:00⁠ Start⁠

0:00:22⁠ Introduction by Okke Batelaan

⁠0:01:00⁠ Youth and background⁠

0:02:53⁠ Choosing civil engineering studies Delft⁠

0:04:56⁠ Inspirer Prof. Adriaan Volker at Delft ⁠

0:07:56⁠ Math teacher⁠

0:09:51⁠ Working and living in Mozambique⁠

0:16:00⁠ Working for Euroconsult all over the world⁠

0:18:05⁠ IHE Delft 1990, PhD 1992

⁠0:21:45⁠ Teaching crown-prince Willem Alexander

⁠0:24:56⁠ TU Delft 1999, Chair in Hydrology 2004⁠

0:26:28⁠ Highlights and achievements in last 20 years⁠

0:30:11⁠ Teaching and supervision of students⁠

0:31:06⁠ On doing measurements⁠

0:33:30⁠ Awards and scientific impact

⁠0:37:19⁠ Passion, disappointments, collaborations⁠

0:43:13⁠ Retirement

⁠0:44:27⁠ Legacy⁠

0:48:46⁠ Future of hydrology? Go to the field!⁠

0:50:08⁠ Closure

Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:

Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films

Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

History of Hydrology interview with Dr. John Rodda.

Content:

• The Water Data Unit

• Institute of Hydrology

• IAHS

• WMO

• UNESCO

The interview took place in Wallingford, UK on July 9th 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

Interviewer Professor Keith Beven

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

History of Hydrology interview with Dr. John Sutcliffe

Content:

• Hydrology of the Sudd and Jonglei Canal

• The Institute of Hydrology and Flood Studies Report

• Nash and Sutcliffe (1970)

• Harald Hursh

• Back to the Jonglei Canal after 60 years

The interview took place in Goring, UK on July 9th 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

Interviewer Professor Keith Beven

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

History of Hydrology interview with Dr Christine McCulloch on the foundation of the Institute of Hydrology, memories of Jim McCulloch as Director of the Institute of Hydrology, and research on the impacts of dams.

The interview took place in Turcot Tower on July 9th 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

Interviewer: Professor Keith Beven

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Eric Wood from Princeton University, USA, who was the 2007 John Dalton medallist. He is interviewed by Professor Siva Sivapalan of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 13 April, 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

00:00:22 Introduction

00:01:31 Undergrad, postgrad, PhD

00:05:21 1976 paper leading to Horton award

00:06:45 Move to IIASA Vienna

00:10:19 Move to Princeton

00:12:03 First sabbatical IH

00:13:17 Processes-simple models-scaling

00:15:40 Transition to remote sensing

00:19:03 Collaboration with Dennis Lettenmaier

00:22:21 Students

00:29:51 Methods used

00:31:14 Direction of research over career

00:34:03 What was the driver of research?

00:36:14 Collaboration - networking

00:38:03 Family - work pressure

00:42:16 Key influences, mentors

00:45:39 Research culture

00:50:14 Milestones

00:52:37 New science coming through?

00:53:47 Future leaders - directions?

00:59:57 Reflection on hydrology and enjoyment brought

01:01:00 What advice to early career scientists

01:02:21 Closing remarks

Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:

Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films

Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Georgia Destouni from Stockholms universitet, Sweden, who was the 2013 Henry Darcy medallist. She is interviewed by Dr Zahra Kalantari of Stockholms universitet, Sweden at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 13 April, 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

0:00:22 Introduction by Zahra Kalantari

0:01:18 Childhood

0:02:09 Career journey and highlights

0:05:32 Major contribution to water science

0:07:07 Most important open questions

0:10:26 What would you do differently?

0:12:31 Work most proud of

0:14:41 How has hydrology changed?

0:17:39 Future of hydrology

0:18:31 View on world water crises

0:24:19 What is your main driving force?

0:25:53 What learnt from iteraction with other scientists

0:26:52 Recognition

0:28:59 Life philosophy

0:29:53 Who at dinner party?

0:37:50 How do you want to be remembered?

0:38:46 What keeps you motivated?

0:40:03 Advise to future scientists

0:41:22 Closing remarksLicensed under

Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films

Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Keith J. Beven from Lancaster University, UK, who was the 2001 John Dalton medallist. He is interviewed by Professor Okke Batelaan of Flinders University, Australia at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 11 April, 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

00:00:22 Introduction by Okke Batelaan

00:01:03 Interest in hydrology, Undergrad Bristol

00:06:33 Undergrad project - first model

00:08:33 PhD University of East Anglia

00:16:56 What keeps you going?

00:19:16 1974-1977 Research fellow at Leeds

00:24:48 TOPMODEL paper

00:26:36 First period at IH

00:32:00 University of Virginia

00:36:12 Second spell at IH

00:40:02 Move to Lancaster 1985

00:43:15 Achievements at Lancaster

00:47:45 Looking back at GLUE

00:51:45 Awards

00:54:12 Secret behind success

00:57:37 Disappointments

00:58:40 Collaborations

01:00:00 Working with students

01:01:10 Plans for the future

01:03:41 Greatest legacy

01:04:55 What would you do different, if would start again?

01:06:41 Future of hydrology?

01:10:28 Closure

Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:

Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films

Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Mike Kirkby from the University of Leeds, UK, who was the 2008 John Dalton medallist. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven of Lancaster University, UK at the Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, 11 April, 2018.

The original Youtube video can be found here.

00:00:22 Introduction by Keith Beven

00:01:10 Undergrad Cambridge

00:05:02 PhD project

00:10:57 Postdoc in States

00:15:43 Move to Bristol 1967

00:19:58 Move to Leeds 1973

00:21:54 Beven to Bristol - TOPMODEL

00:24:00 Published books

00:29:07 EU projects, from small to large scale

00:38:03 Awards

00:39:37 What about the future?

Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:

Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films

Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

This first History of Hydrology interview features Professor Siva Sivapalan from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, who was the 2003 John Dalton medallist. He is interviewed by Dr Ross Woods of the University of Bristol, UK at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 10 April, 2018.

You can find the original video recording on Youtube here.

00:00:21 Introduction

00:01:50 Childhood and youth

00:02:51 Siva’s parents

00:03:36 High school

00:05:56 University in Sri Lanka

00:07:00 Choosing a Masters course at AIT

00:08:53 Initial impressions of hydrology

00:10:42 Memories of AIT, Nigeria, PhD applications

00:21:26 How Siva met his wife Banu

00:24:05 Transition to living in the USA

00:28:15 PhD at Princeton

00:32:52 Move to Australia

00:39:14 Supervision style

00:42:01 PUB - Predictions in Ungauged Basins

00:50:51 Move to the USA

00:52:44 Concept development vs methods

00:55:18 Cutting a path through the jungle

00:57:04 Sources of motivation

00:58:58 Leadership style

01:00:38 Networking

01:02:31 Juggling work and home commitments

01:05:32 Cricket as a metaphor

01:08:18 Personal network

01:10:30 Influential people

01:15:21 Scientific heroes

01:17:19 Planning vs Circumstance

01:20:04 Would you do anything differently?

01:21:29 Dealing with failure

01:22:28 Attributes of our research culture

01:24:24 Happiest moments

01:26:04 Advice for young hydrologists

01:27:42 What needs to be done in hydrology

01:31:42 Closing remarks

Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC- BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments: Video & editing: Alfred Zacharias.

Sponsorship: Professor Guenter Blöschl, TU Vienna, Austria.

Podcast: Pau Wiersma