Topic: Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Simulations and Climate Change.
Speaker: Dr. Taikan Oki
Time: 04 Jun 2025 at 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
In the 2010s, Dr. Taikan Oki’s research led to the development of realistic global terrestrial water cycle simulations, global water supply and demand assessments, and climate change impact assessments. He envisioned the future development of hydrology by emphasizing linkages between scientific aspects of hydrology and water policy, social issues, and interdisciplinary research. His work has contributed to more sustainable management of water on a global scale, through more realistic and practical climate adaptation measures, the inclusion of human activity in the water cycle, and a more accurate depiction of the world’s river flows.
He will present an overview of his research.
Biography:
Taikan Oki is a professor at the University of Tokyo in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering in Japan. A man of many talents, Oki has also held the titles of the Special Advisor to the President at the University of Tokyo, the Senior Vice Rector for the United Nations University, and the Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations. In 1995, Oki and his wife (also a scientist) spent two years at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA as visiting scientists.
Taikan Oki, member of The Club of Rome has won the 2024 Stockholm Water Prize.
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