Professor Keith Beven
I am a hydrologist and have been working at Lancaster University for over 30 years. I am now a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Lancaster Environment Centre.
I had previously worked at the Institute of Hydrology at Wallingford and the University of Virginia. I am best known for my work in hydrological modelling, flood forecasting and inundation prediction, and the analysis of uncertainties in environmental models (www.uncertain-future.org.uk ).
I have written books on these subjects that have even been translated into Chinese! I have also been interested in the relationship between flow structures, dead zones, and the ecology of rivers and lakes and recent work has included forecasting algal populations in Lake District lakes.
My work has resulted in a number of awards including the Robert Horton Medal and Langbein Awards of the American Geophysical Union, the John Dalton Medal and Leonardo Awards of the European Geophysical Union, the IAHS/WMO/UNESCO International Hydrology Prize, the Penman and President’s Awards of the British Hydrological Society; and a D.Sc. from Bristol University. I also held the King of Sweden’s Environmental Guest Professorship at Uppsala University, the Francqui Foundation Chair at KU Leuven in Belgium, was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society, and as a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
I am also passionate about photography and still like to try and find time to take some photographs (mostly of water on film, www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk).
