EGU HydroTalks: Heidi Kreibich on flood risk management and the Panta Rhei scientific decade

Welcome to HydroTalks, the new podcast series of the EGU Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division. Every month, we interview experts about the advancements, challenges, and opportunities in the field of hydrology.

For episode 6 of Hydrotalks, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Heidi Kreibich (https://www.gfz.de/en/staff/heidi.kre..., the head of the Section Hydrology at GFZ Helmholtz Centre of Geosciences and senior lecturer at the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Heidi is also the president of Natural Hazards division of the EGU (https://www.egu.eu/nh/) and president of the International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). In addition, Heidi was chair of the Panta Rhei scientific decade during the last biennium of 2021-2023: https://iahs.info/Initiatives/Scienti....

In this episode of the podcast we talked about her research on flood risk management using the HOWAS21 database (https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles...) and highlighted her important work during the Panta Rhei scientific decade.

Important links related to our conversation are:
Panta Rhei benchmark datasets: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/...
Panta Rhei paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Panta Rhei book: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/ed...

You can read a summary of the interview on the Hydrological Sciences Division blog: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs/

This podcast was organised by the EGU Hydrological Sciences Division Early Career Scientists and the content approved by the Hydrological Sciences Division President, Alberto Viglione. Find out more about this division here: https://www.egu.eu/hs/

Presented and edited by Christina Anna Orieschnig and Melissa Reidy.

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