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20. Prof. András Bárdossy17 May 202600:57:24

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor András Bárdossy of the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Dept. of Hydrology and Geohydrology, University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is interviewed by Professor Erwin Zehe from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, July 2nd, 2025.

The original YouTube video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeaBdcaKlqc

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

19. Prof. Petra Döll16 Apr 202600:59:13

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Petra Döll, Professor of Hydrology at the Institute of Physical Geography at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is interviewed by Professor Okke Batelaan, Frankfurt am Main, July 4, 2025.

The original Youtube video can be found here.


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

18. Prof. Sten Bergström16 Apr 202600:42:18

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Sten Bergström, who retired in 2017 from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden. He is interviewed by Professor Berit Arheimer from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, 28 Oct. 2025.

The original Youtube video can be found here. Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Acknowledgments:

Recording and facilities by Olivia Larsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute payed for time and facilitaties with performing the interview.

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

17. Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach16 Apr 202601:17:23

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Emeritus Wolfgang Kinzelbach of ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He is interviewed by Professor Okke Batelaan in Davos, September 8, 2024.
The original YouTube video can be found here.
Timestamps:
0:00:14 Introduction by Okke Batelaan
0:01:20 Youth and background; father’s influence
0:03:45 High school and university studies in physics
0:04:53 Start of professional career; random walk; Stanford University
0:08:47 Mathematics teacher in Nigeria
0:10:22 PhD in Karlsruhe
0:12:58 Research in Beijing at the Institute of Environmental Chemistry
0:16:02 Return to Germany; start of groundwater career; chlorinated hydrocarbons and nitrate
0:25:20 Development of groundwater modelling tools
0:30:29 Overseas collaborations; Okavango, Botswana
0:37:47 Heidelberg tracers
0:40:02 Move to ETH; turbulence; agriculture and water
0:49:28 World food crises
0:53:05 Philosophy on life and work
0:55:04 Reflections on career and colleagues
0:58:33 Changes in academia over time
1:02:05 Future of hydrogeology
1:07:47 Teaching and supervision
1:09:17 Support from colleagues; work–life balance
1:11:55 How he would like to be remembered
1:14:07 Final words of wisdom for future scientists
1:16:50 Closure
1:17:26 End
License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Acknowledgments:
Video & editing: Okke Batelaan, Frankie Films
Sponsorship: Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia
Podcast: Pau Wiersma

16. Prof. Berit Arheimer16 Apr 202600:49:12

An interview in the series of History of Hydrology, serving as an audiovisual record of the history of hydrology. This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Berit Arheimer of the Swedish Hydrological and Meteorological Institute. She is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven, Lancaster, July 13, 2023.

Warning: poor audio quality! I tried to fix it but I only made it worse, so this audio is the original Youtube audio. If you happen to be an audio expert and you know a way to improve it, please let me know at pauwiersma@outlook.com.


The original Youtube video can be found here.


License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Podcast: Pau Wiersma


15. Prof. Peter Young16 Apr 202601:01:29

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


Podcast: Pau Wiersma

14. Prof. Alberto Montanari16 Apr 202600:29:08

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

13. Prof. Andrea Rinaldo16 Apr 202601:12:39

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
License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


Podcast: Pau Wiersma

12. Prof. Demetris Koutsoyiannis16 Apr 202601:06:14

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Demetris was the 2009 Henry Darcy medallist of the EGU. He is interviewed by Dr Antonis Koussis of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece 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 Antonis Koussis
0:00:54 The beginning; a video of the village of Demetris can be seen at: Μεσούντα - Φαράγγι Φάγγου πτήση - Mesounta. From 1:50, the stream with the steep banks and the old bridge are adjacent to his family house.
0:09:16 Move to Athens, adjustment, Greece dictatorship, high school
0:14:53 Events at Athens Polytechnic in 1973 (student uprising against the dictatorship). Additional material available online.
0:17:37 Study Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic
0:22:44 Early work experiences after study
0:24:45 Research in hydrology, PhD studies
0:27:43 Path to academia and key milestones
0:31:30 Working with Zbigniew Kundzewicz, editing Hydrological Sciences Journal
0:33:40 Relationship between stochastics and physics
0:43:36 Climate change: going against the current
0:51:55 Thinking and philosophy
0:57:18 Collaboration and working with others
0:59:45 Interest in Karl Popper’s philosophy
1:02:44 Direction of hydrology, major challenges, advice for young hydrologists
1:05:56 Closure


License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


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

11. Prof. Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz16 Apr 202600:58:12

This History of Hydrology interview features Professor Zbigniew Kundzewicz from the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. He is interviewed by Dr. Mikołaj Piniewski of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland at the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, 29 May, 2019.


The original YouTube video can be found here.


Timestamps:
0:00:00 Start
0:00:22 Introduction by Mikołaj Piniewski
0:02:40 Youth and background
0:04:08 Studies at the Warsaw University of Technology
0:06:36 PhD at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
0:08:02 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Karlsruhe
0:12:23 The Tison Award
0:13:06 Unsolved problems in hydrology
0:16:14 Work at the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment of the Polish Academy of Sciences
0:18:46 Interest in climate change
0:22:56 Work for the IPCC
0:26:56 Most important achievement
0:29:13 Paper in Science in 2008
0:33:29 “Climate change and water” IPCC report
0:35:48 The Hydrological Sciences Journal editorship
0:41:02 In which direction does hydrology go
0:46:56 Growth of Chinese science
0:51:01 Family
0:55:06 Message to the young generation of hydrologists


License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


Acknowledgments:
Video & editing: Leszek Szymański, Frankie Films
Sponsorship: Dr. Mikołaj Piniewski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences; Professor Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Australia

Podcast: Pau Wiersma

10. Prof. Thomas Dunne16 Apr 202601:20:12

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

9. Prof. Huub Savenije16 Mar 202600:50:14

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

8. Dr. John Rodda16 Mar 202601:05:26

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

7. Dr. John Sutcliffe16 Mar 202600:55:45

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

6. Dr. Christine McCulloch16 Mar 202600:44:08

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

5. Prof. Eric Wood16 Mar 202601:03:13

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

4. Prof. Georgia Destouni16 Mar 202600:41:25

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

3. Prof. Keith Beven16 Mar 202601:10:41

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

2. Prof. Mike Kirkby11 Mar 202600:43:33

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

1. Prof. Siva Sivapalan16 Nov 202401:31:49

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


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