Project Description
Dara Entekhabi
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Science Team Leader: NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
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
- 1.070AJ/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