Interview with Professor Peter Young

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 Peter Young of Lancaster University. He is interviewed by Professor Keith Beven, Lancaster, November 7, 2023. 0:00:00 Start 0:00:30 Introduction by Keith Beven 0:01:26 Family background, apprenticeship in aeronautics and path to PhD in Cambridge 0:07:20 PhD in automatic control 0:09:50 Research stay in the USA 1968-1970 0:11:11 Back to Cambridge, lectureship, first work on the environment 0:16:28 Professorial fellowship 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 Working with Tom Bear on tracer models and dead zones 0:31:36 Development of the CAPTAIN Package 0:34:09 Sabbatical in Cambridge; move to Lancaster 1981 0:37:08 Meeting Keith Beven and his move to Lancaster and work on tracer studies 0:41:18 Continuation of CAPTAIN in MATLAB 0:47:11 Transfer function, data based mechanistic modelling philosophy 0:51:13 Identifying non-linearity in data based mechanistic models 0:59:29 Awards Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0