A kayaker turns her passion into a startup, with Jessica Droujko of Riverkin

10/16/24 • 32 min

Jessica Droujko is a passionate kayaker and lover of rivers. So it’s fitting that she should combine that passion and her PhD from ETH Zürich to launch Riverkin, a startup that monitors river health.

In this episode we talked about:

🌊 How rivers shape landscapes and their importance in global ecosystems

🔬 How Riverkin monitors water levels and sediment flows

🏞️ Jessica's adventures on some of the world's most interesting rivers, including the Boiling River in Peru

🚣‍♀️ The balance between responsible tourism and river conservation. Think: Grand Canyon

🌍 The River Collective's mission to create changemakers through events like the Students for Rivers camp

🔌 Opportunities for citizen science in river monitoring through mini hydrological stations

#ClimateTech #Rivers #Water

10/16/24 • 32 min

Another ClimateTech Podcast - A kayaker turns her passion into a startup, with Jessica Droujko of Riverkin

Transcript

Jessica Droujko00:00:00.260

Rivers actually shape the landscape and you have the tectonic plates that move and create these mounds on the earth . But the earth is really shaped by the rivers , and so without rivers you have no mountains , but you could have rivers without mountains too .

Ryan Grant Little00:00:24.481

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