Water Resources Podcast
by Bridget Scanlon
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About this podcast
The Water Resources Podcast is designed to conduct interviews with experts to discuss challenges with water resources related to climate, such as droughts and 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. The podcast is hosted by Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
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.
Episodes
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- Adapting to Ogallala Aquifer Shortages in Texas using Direct to Market Agricultural Production · 1 h 0 minLayton Schur discusses his direct marketing approach of 24 different vegetables and beef production to reduce groundwater use in the depleting High Plains Aquifer. Transcript and…
- Advancing Flood Monitoring and Forecasting in Texas · 56 minDavid Maidment talks about flooding challenges in Texas and the U.S. and approaches to reduce flood hazards.
- Challenges for Managing Water Resources in Chile · 44 minMatías Taucare discusses various challenges, including megadrought since 2010 and groundwater over exploitation in Chile since 1990.
- Managing Produced Water in the Texas Permian Basin Will Remain a Long-Term Challenge · 53 minKatie Smye talks about advanced modeling and satellite-based monitoring for tracking produced water issues in the Permian Basin.
- Assessing Potential for Beneficial Use of Produced Water in the Texas Permian Basin · 47 minShane Walker discusses advances in treating produced water for beneficial uses, including surface discharge and land application.
- Sustainable Groundwater Management in the North China Plain · 47 minWolfgang Kinzelbach is a Professor Emeritus of Hydromechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland). His research focused on many aspects of…
- Reservoir Evaporation Monitoring, Drought Index: Texas to Global Scales · 53 minHuilin Gao discusses advances in reservoir monitoring using models and new remote sensing, providing daily evaporation rates for Texas, western U.S., and global scales.
- Floods, Droughts, and Data: How Satellites Are Changing Hydrology · 39 minAugusto Getirana discusses global flooding in 2025, the new SWOT satellite, advances in NASA modeling and flood work in Brazil.
- Water-Electricity Nexus in the Western U.S. · 44 minNathalie Voisin discusses water-electricity interconnection, highlighting hydropower, hydropower droughts, grid reliability, and future of water-energy management.
- Hydroclimatic Trends in the Western U.S. · 60 minDennis Lettenmaier discusses trends in snow, flooding, and drought in the Western U.S. with a focus on the Colorado River Basin.
- Tracking Water from Space: Tibetan Plateau, Mekong Basin, and North China Plain · 1 h 1 minDi Long discusses his research on the water resources in the Tibetan Plateau Asian Water Tower, reservoirs in the Mekong Basin, and water storage recovery in the North China Plain.
- Monitoring Global Land Subsidence and Impacts · 51 minManoo Shirzaei discusses land subsidence in many regions globally, including Iran, California, Arizona, and U.S. Coast based on satellite data.
- Recent Advances in AI/ML with Applications in Earth Sciences and Hydrology · 46 minAlex Sun discusses the evolution of AI/ML over the past decades and resources for hydrology.
- Agricultural Production in the Ukraine and Western Russia · 42 minSergii Skakun discusses historical, current, and projected future wheat production in the Ukraine and Russia using satellite date and modelling.
- Updates on GRACE Satellite Missions and Applications for Flooding · 47 minJürgen Kusche discusses advances in GRACE satellites, applications for flood monitoring, and data assimilation with global hydrology models.
- Increasing Resilience of Water Resources in San Antonio, Texas · 45 minKaren Guz discusses water conservation and increasing supplies to meet the rising water needs for population growth and droughts in San Antonio.
- Floods and Droughts in Texas · 49 minJohn Nielsen-Gammon discusses climate extremes, including the July 4th flooding and 2011 drought, with insights into communicating risk.
- Central Texas Flooding and Fatalities · 45 minHatim Sharif discusses recent central Texas flooding in Kerr County and San Antonio and flood fatalities.
- Soil Health · 46 minNima Shokri discusses the importance of global soil health and its impacts on water resources, food security and sustainable development.
- South African Lighthouse of Hope from Nature-Based Wastewater Treatment · 1 h 8 minKevin Winter discusses nature-based approaches to treating informal settlement discharge for use in agriculture and other sectors.
