PEOPLE

Dara Entekhabi

Bacardi & Stockholm Water Foundations Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 48-216G, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-9698, Fax: (617) 258-8850, E-mail: darae@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• Clark University, B.A., Geography, 1983
• Clark University, M.A., Geography, 1984
• Clark University, M.A., Geography, 1987
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1990

Appointments:

• Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1991-present

Honors:

• National Science Foundation (NSF), Presidential Young Investigator, 1991
• MIT Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair, 1994
• 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
• Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundation Professor, MIT, 2004

Four Recent Publications:

• Gong, G., and J. Cohen, D. Entekhabi, Y. Ge. 2006. Hemispheric-scale climate response to Northern Eurasia land surface characteristics and snow anomalies, Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.025.
• Martina, M. L. V. and D. Entekhabi. 2006. Identification of runoff spatial variability using conventional hydrologic gauge time-series, Water Resources Research, 42(8), W08431, doi:10.1029/2005WR004783.
• Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, and D. Entekhabi. 2006. Feedbacks of vegetation on summertime climate variability over the North American grasslands: 2. A coupled stochastic model, Earth Interactions, 10(16), 1-30.
• Entekhabi, D. and M. Moghaddam. 2006. Mapping recharge from space: Roadmap to meeting the grand challenge, Hydrogeology Journal, doi:10.1007/s10040-006-0120-6.

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