EGS John Dalton Medallist - 2001

Keith John Beven 

for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of hydrological processes and hydrological modelling

 
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Keith Beven was appointed in 1991 as Professor of Hydrology at Lancaster University. He has made fundamental and innovative contributions over many years in a range of hydrological topics, especially model development and modelling methodology. His research interests include: rainfall-runoff modelling (including TOPMODEL which has been used in more than 30 countries world-wide); forecasting flood inundation; surface and subsurface tracing experiments and pollutant transport prediction (including random particle models for surface and subsurface transport and the ADZ model for pollution incident prediction); surface to atmosphere water fluxes; and predictive uncertainty in environmental models including the GLUE methodology and fuzzy set methods.

He has published more than 150 papers and books. His work has been acknowledged world-wide and he has an international reputation. Indicators of his esteem are:

  - American Geophysical Union Horton Award in 1991
 
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1995
  - International Chair, Francqui Foundation, Belgium, 1999-2000 (the first one to be offered in Environmental Science)
  - Associate Editor, Advances in Water Resources
  - Associate Editor, Hydrological Processes
  - Associate Editor, Journal of Forecasting
  - Member, Scientific Committee of French National Programme in Hydrology (1997-2000)
  - Member, Evaluation Committee, Laboratoire des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France

In addition he has given a number of invited keynote talks at international events and has served on many national committees. He is a familiar figure at the EGS General Assemblies.