Faculty - Dara Entekhabi

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Dara Entekhabi

Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Director, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering

Director, Earth System Initiative

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48-216G, MIT
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA

Telephone: +1 (617) 253.9698 e-mail: darae@mit.edu

Education

  • B.A. (1983) Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
  • M.A. (1984), M.A. (1987) Clark University
  • Ph.D. (1990) MIT

Research Interests

  • Earth remote sensing
  • Land-atmosphere interaction and boundary layer processes
  • Dynamics of winter-time extra-tropical atmosphere and its predictability
  • Data Assimilation: Techniques development and applications
  • Land evaporation retrieval using multi-platform remotely sensed data
  • Sensor network model-integration closed-loop control
  • Surface water-groundwater interaction and hillslope hydrology

Teaching Interests

  • 1.70J/12.320J Introduction to Hydrology (Undergraduate)

  • 1.106 Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory (Undergraduate)

Awards and Honors

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Presidential Young Investigator (1991)
  • Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Cav. Arturo Parisatti Prize (1994)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Macelwane Young Scientist Medal (1996)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fellow (1996)
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS), Fellow (2003)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member (2004)

Selected Publications

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Current Service

  • AGU Water Resources Research, Associate Editor
  • IEEE 2008 Geoscience Symposium, Co-Chair Technical Program
  • University College Cork External Committee
  • AGU, Horton Medal Committee
  • NRC Water Science and Technology Board, Member