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 Introduction 00:01:50 Childhood and youth 00:02:51 Siva’s parents 00:03:36 High school 00:05:56 University in Sri Lanka 00:07:00 Choosing a Masters course at AIT 00:08:53 Initial impressions of hydrology 00:10:42 Memories of AIT, Nigeria, PhD applications 00:21:26 How Siva met his wife Banu 00:24:05 Transition to living in the USA 00:28:15 PhD at Princeton 00:32:52 Move to Australia 00:39:14 Supervision style 00:42:01 PUB - Predictions in Ungauged Basins 00:50:51 Move to the USA 00:52:44 Concept development vs methods 00:55:18 Cutting a path through the jungle 00:57:04 Sources of motivation 00:58:58 Leadership style 01:00:38 Networking 01:02:31 Juggling work and home commitments 01:05:32 Cricket as a metaphor 01:08:18 Personal network 01:10:30 Influential people 01:15:21 Scientific heroes 01:17:19 Planning vs Circumstance 01:20:04 Would you do anything differently? 01:21:29 Dealing with failure 01:22:28 Attributes of our research culture 01:24:24 Happiest moments 01:26:04 Advice for young hydrologists 01:27:42 What needs to be done in hydrology 01:31:42 Closing remarks Licensed under Creative Commons copyright CC- BY-NC-ND 4.0 Acknowledgments: Video & editing: Alfred Zacharias. Sponsorship: Professor Guenter Blöschl, TU Vienna, Austria. Podcast: Pau Wiersma