Hannah Cloke and predicting floods

The Life Scientific

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This summer, many parts of the world have seen devastating flooding, from New Orleans and New York, to the UK, Germany and Belgium. More than 300 people lost their lives in floods in central China, including a number who were trapped in a subway train in the city of Zhengzhou. Professor Hannah Cloke of the University of Reading is a natural hazards researcher and hydrologist, who spends her time trying to prevent these terrible losses. She models where flooding is likely to happen and advises governments.

Hannah Cloke talks to Jim al-Khalili about how her fascination with the water on the earth goes back to her childhood – her memories of holidays for instance all revolve around swimming or building dams on the beach. She is now passionate about finding new ways of telling the public about the dangers of flooding, which includes writing poetry.

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0:42.6	This summer we saw devastating flooding all over the world.
0:46.6	Recently it was in New Orleans and New York.
0:49.1	In August many parts of the UK were underwater and in July there were those deadly flash floods
0:54.5	in Germany and Belgium.
0:56.4	More than 300 people lost their lives and floods in central China, including a number
1:00.9	who were trapped in a subway train in the city of Jean-Jew.
1:04.5	My guest today is Hannah Cloak.
1:07.0	As a natural hazards researcher and hydrologist she spends her time trying to prevent these
1:12.3	terrible losses.
1:13.9	She says that she's interested in early warning and early action, as it's so important
1:18.6	to get people out of the way if we can tell a flood is coming.
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