Water Resources Podcast Focuses on Climate-related Challenges

In a new podcast series, NAE Member Bridget Scanlon leads discussions with leading experts on water and related issues. The Water Resources Podcast presents challenges with water resources related to climate such as droughts, floods and overexploitation by humans. Potential solutions to these challenges are also discussed.

Regions covered range from local to global scale, and approaches considered include satellite and ground-based monitoring, and global to regional modeling.

To date, six podcasts have been released.

• Drought Forecasting in East Africa with Chris Funk, director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California Santa Barbara
• Water Issues in Argentina with Esteban Jobbágy, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
• Atmospheric Rivers in California with Mike Dettinger, research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Western Regional Research, and a research associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California  
• Groundwater and Surface Water: A Single Source with Lenny Konikow, editor in chief, Groundwater journal and emeritus scientist with U.S. Geological Survey.
• Water Issues in India and Africa with Alan MacDonald, IMP3 research scientist and head of Groundwater Resilience at British Geological Survey
• ​Impacts of Global Food Trade on Water and Food Security with Paolo D’Odorico, Thomas J Graff Professor of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California-Berkeley

The Water Resources Podcast can be found across numerous social media channels including:

• NAE YouTube channel
• University of Texas website
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts
• Water Resources Podcast YouTube channel

Scanlon is the Fisher Endowed Chair in Geological Sciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her “contributions to the evaluation of groundwater recharge and aquifer depletion” contributed to her election to NAE in 2016.

The Water Resources Podcast is a production of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering. The podcast is supported by the Fisher Foundation.