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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 48-205, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617)-2536596, FAX: (617) 253-7462, E-mail: eltahir@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• University of Khartoum, B. Sc. in Civil Engineering, 1985
• National University of Ireland, M. Sc. in Hydrology, 1988
• MIT, S. M. in Meteorology, 1993
• MIT, Sc. D. in Hydroclimatology, 1993

Appointments:

• Professor, Dept. Civil & Env. Eng. MIT, 2003-Present
• Associate Professor, Dept. Civil & Env. Eng. MIT, 1998-2003
• Assistant Professor, Dept. Civil & Env. Eng. MIT, 1994-1998
• Postdoc. Res. Assoc., Dept. Civil & Env. Eng. MIT, 1993

Honors:

• NASA Fellowship in Global Change Research, 1991-1993
• Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair, 1995-1998
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1997
• The Kuwait Prize in Applied Science, 2000

Four Recent Publications:

• Yeh, P. J.-F. and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2005. Representation of Water Table Dynamics in a Land-Surface Scheme: Part I. Model Development. Journal of Climate, 18(12): 1861-1880.
• Yeh, P. J.-F. and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2005. Representation of Water Table Dynamics in a Land Surface Scheme: Part II.. Subgrid Variability, Journal of Climate, 18(12): 1881-1901.
• Niemann J. D. and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2005. Sensitivity of regional hydrology to climate changes, with application to the Illinois River basin. Water Resources Research, 40: W07014, doi:10.1029/2004WR003893.
• Hildebrandt, A. and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2006. Forest on the edge: Seasonal cloud forest in Oman creates its own ecological niche. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11401, doi:10.1029/2006GL026022.

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