1. Prof. Siva Sivapalan

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 Introduction00:01:50 Childhood and youth00:02:51 Siva’s parents00:03:36 High school00:05:56 University in Sri Lanka00:07:00 Choosing a Masters course at AIT00:08:53 Initial impressions of hydrology00:10:42 Memories of AIT, Nigeria, PhD applications00:21:26 How Siva met his wife Banu00:24:05 Transition to living in the USA00:28:15 PhD at Princeton00:32:52 Move to Australia 00:39:14 Supervision style00:42:01 PUB - Predictions in Ungauged Basins00:50:51 Move to the USA 00:52:44 Concept development vs methods00:55:18 Cutting a path through the jungle00:57:04 Sources of motivation00:58:58 Leadership style01:00:38 Networking01:02:31 Juggling work and home commitments01:05:32 Cricket as a metaphor01:08:18 Personal network01:10:30 Influential people01:15:21 Scientific heroes01:17:19 Planning vs Circumstance01:20:04 Would you do anything differently?01:21:29 Dealing with failure01:22:28 Attributes of our research culture01:24:24 Happiest moments01:26:04 Advice for young hydrologists01:27:42 What needs to be done in hydrology01:31:42 Closing remarksLicensed under Creative Commons copyright CC- BY-NC-ND 4.0Acknowledgments: Video & editing: Alfred Zacharias.Sponsorship: Professor Guenter Blöschl, TU Vienna, Austria.Podcast: Pau Wiersma