Speaking

Erica Gies has given many keynotes at national and international science and industry conferences and has advised the EPA and the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. She was the Harvey Southam Lecturer at the University of Victoria and the Leeson Lecturer at the University of Rhode Island. She spoke at the University of Santa Barbara’s Capps Forum of Ethics and Public Policy, Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, Penn State, Princeton, Australian National University, and Duke. She gave a TEDx talk in Boston and was a featured author at the Tucson Festival of Books. She has appeared on CNN International Amanpour & Co, Fox News The Next Revolution, NPR Science Friday, CBC What on Earth, KERA Think, KQED Forum, radio programs in New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K., and many podcasts.

KQED Forum: Radio — Solutions to Drought and Deluge in Asking, ‘What Does Water Want?’
KERA Think: Radio — Rising Seas, Floods, or Droughts: Living with Water as Nature Intended
CBC What on Earth: Radio — Drought, Deluge, and the Fix: Doing What Water Wants
CBC The Current: Fears of water insecurity and extreme drought
NM PBS Our Land: TV — ‘Recalibrating’ Our Relationships with Water
ABC 7 News: TV — Bay Area ‘Water Always Wins’ Author Surveys World for Water Solutions
CBC On the Island: Radio — Water Always Wins author Erica Gies
ABC 7 News: TV — How CA’s ancient hidden waterways can recharge groundwater

KQED ·

Solution for California’s Drought Problems Lies Below Us

Right under the Central Valley, there are vast ancient river beds cut by glaciers thousands of years ago. Erica Gies wrote about these ancient paleo valleys for Bay Nature magazine.

NPR · Adaptation Slow Water Water

Cities Are Turning Flood Water Into Freshwater

As a guest on NPR’s “Science Friday,” Erica talks about sponge cities in China and the ways in which several cities around the world are adapting to be more resilient, as climate change begins to have a major effect on water systems.

Top of Mind with Julie Rose · Climate Change Slow Water Water

Slow Water in Peru

As drought grips Peru, its people are turning to nature, and ancient pre-Incan techniques to conserve water for the dry season that’s grown increasingly intense due to climate change. Erica discusses this world-leading program with Top of Mind host Julie Rose.

Sustain What? · Climate Change Slow Water Water

After Ida – Paths to Flash Flood Safety

What can be done to better warn and prepare communities everywhere for flash flooding, an intensifying threat in a human-heated climate? Erica joins a conversation on Andy Revkin’s Sustain What Live following the September 2021 flooding in New York City.