Project Description

Dara Entekhabi

Dara Entekhabi

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

Science Team Leader: NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission

Research Interests: hydrology, hydroclimatology and remote sensing

Connect

MIT
Parsons Laboratory
Room 48-216C
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA

Telephone: 617.253.9698
Email: darae@mit.edu
Assistant: Taylor Gawinski Stern / tgstern@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

  • 1.070AJ/12.320AJ Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources (Undergraduate)
  • 1.070BJ/12.320BJ Introduction to Hydrologic Modeling (Undergraduate)
  • 1.106 Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory (Undergraduate)
  • 1.S980 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Graduate)

Awards and Honors

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fellow
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS), Fellow
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Member
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Presidential Young Investigator
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Macelwane Young Scientist Medal
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS), Robert E. Horton Lecture
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Hydrologic Sciences Award
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Outstanding Public Leadership Medal
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS) Dave & Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize
  • National Academy of Engineering, Member

Selected Publications

Curriculum vitae