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Alberto Montanari
Professor of Hydraulic Works and Hydrology Department DICAM - Faculty of Engineering - University of Bologna Via del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna E-mail: alberto.montanari@unibo.it Phone: +39 051 2093356 Fax +39 051 2093140 |
International Hydrology Prize awarded to Günter Blöschl |
The winner of the 2013 International Hydrology Prize is Professor Günter Blöschl of TU Wien in Austria. The Prize, awarded annually by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO, was presented by Gordon Young (IAHS) and Bruce Stewart (WMO) at the IAHS Plenary meeting in Gothenburg.
Günter is a friend and therefore it is a particular pleasure for me to provide the link to his citation and response. I am particularly grateful to Günther for this sentence in his reply: "I view the recognition I am receiving today not just as a personal achievement but as a tribute to those closest to me who have supported me over the years through their generosity of spirit. Many of the flattering statements about my achievements mentioned in Gordon’s award citation are the direct outcome of what I have learned from several of my collaborations. I have been extremely fortunate to have had fantastic mentors, colleagues and students – many of whom I am privileged to count as friends today. Space prevents me from naming all of them, but I will be amiss if I do not mention three special people, Siva Sivapalan, Hubert Savenije and Alberto Montanari, for their enduring friendship and support. Special thanks to Berit Arheimer for leading my nomination for this award".
I do not deserve such a recognition but I am pleased to admit that I appreciated it a lot.
I am also pleased to highlight that Federico Lombardo and Elena Volpi are the winners of the 2013 Tison Award for their paper: "Rainfall downscaling in time: theoretical and empirical comparison between multifractal and Hurst-Kolmogorov discrete random cascades", co-authored with Demetris Koutsoyiannis, and published in Hydrological Sciences Journal 57(6),1052–1066. Congratulations!
Alberto Montanari
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