Project Description
Dara Entekhabi
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests: hydrology, hydroclimatology and remote sensing
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MIT
Parsons Laboratory
Room 48-216C
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
Telephone: 617.253.9698
Email: darae@mit.edu
Assistant: Ed Carlevale / ecarl@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)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS), Horton Lecture (2012)
- Hydrologic Sciences Award (AGU) (2015)
- Hydrology Days Award (CSU and AGU) (2016)