Interview with Professor Alberto Montanari

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 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. 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 Other hydrologists, who had an influence? 0:10:41 Member of major risk committee of Italy 0:12:59 Risk communication in climate change 0:16:02 Is a resilient approach worth pursuing? The value of historical data. 0:19:28 Service to the hydrological community 0:21:48 Editor in Chief of Water Resources Research and broadening the network of collaboration 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 Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0