Interview with Professor Keith J. Beven

As a companion to the History of Hydrology session at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 five interviews were recorded with former John Dalton or Henry Darcy EGU medallists. These interviews serve as an audiovisual recording of the history of hydrology. 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. 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