Water Resources Podcast

By Bridget ScanlonScience Technology Education Earth Sciences

Water Resources Podcast episodes

September 10 Advancing Flood Monitoring and Forecasting in Texas
David Maidment talks about flooding challenges in Texas and the U.S. and approaches to reduce flood hazards.
56 min
August 13 Challenges for Managing Water Resources in Chile
Matías Taucare discusses various challenges, including megadrought since 2010 and groundwater over exploitation in Chile since 1990.
45 min
July 16 Managing Produced Water in the Texas Permian Basin Will Remain a Long-Term Challenge
Katie Smye talks about advanced modeling and satellite-based monitoring for tracking produced water issues in the Permian Basin.
54 min
June 18 Assessing Potential for Beneficial Use of Produced Water in the Texas Permian Basin
Shane Walker discusses advances in treating produced water for beneficial uses, including surface discharge and land application.
47 min
May 21 Sustainable Groundwater Management in the North China Plain
Wolfgang Kinzelbach is a Professor Emeritus of Hydromechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland). His research focused on many aspects of hydrogeology, including modeling and monitoring of water quantity and quality. This podcast focuses on his work in China, including the North China Plain and the Tarim Basin.
47 min
May 07 Reservoir Evaporation Monitoring, Drought Index: Texas to Global Scales
Huilin Gao discusses advances in reservoir monitoring using models and new remote sensing, providing daily evaporation rates for Texas, western U.S., and global scales.
54 min
April 23 Floods, Droughts, and Data: How Satellites Are Changing Hydrology
Augusto Getirana discusses global flooding in 2025, the new SWOT satellite, advances in NASA modeling and flood work in Brazil.
40 min
April 09 Water-Electricity Nexus in the Western U.S.
Nathalie Voisin discusses water-electricity interconnection, highlighting hydropower, hydropower droughts, grid reliability, and future of water-energy management.
44 min
March 26 Hydroclimatic Trends in the Western U.S.
Dennis Lettenmaier discusses trends in snow, flooding, and drought in the Western U.S. with a focus on the Colorado River Basin.
1 hr
March 12 Tracking Water from Space: Tibetan Plateau, Mekong Basin, and North China Plain
Di Long discusses his research on the water resources in the Tibetan Plateau Asian Water Tower, reservoirs in the Mekong Basin, and water storage recovery in the North China Plain.
1 hr 2 min

About Water Resources Podcast

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The Water Resources Podcast is designed to conduct interviews with experts to discuss challenges with water resources related to climate, such as droughts and floods, and overexploitation by humans. Potential solutions to these challenges are also discussed. Regions covered range from local to global scale, and approaches considered include satellite and ground-based monitoring, and global to regional modeling. The podcast is hosted by Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.