Dara Entekhabi

Dara Entekhabi is the Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research spans a variety of topics in hydrology, including land-atmosphere interactions, surface water - groundwater interactions, data assimilation, and remote sensing.

In 2015, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to microwave remote sensing of soil moisture. In 2017, he was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering for leadership in the hydrologic sciences including the scientific underpinnings for satellite observation of the Earth's water cycle.

Awards Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1991 Lettere ed Arti, Cav. Arturo Parisatti Prize, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, 1994 James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1996 Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1996 Fellow, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2003 Robert E. Horton Lecture, American Meteorological Society, 2012 Boussinesq Lecture, Boussinesq Center for Hydrology, The Netherlands, 2014 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015 Hydrologic Sciences Award, American Geophysical Union, 2015 Hydrology Days Award, CSU and AGU, 2016 Eagleson Lecture, Consortium Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science, 2016 Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2017 Dave & Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize, American Meteorological Society, 2017 NASA Group Achievement Award (Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission), 2017 NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal, 2017

Leadership Science Team Leader, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, NASA, Phase E, January 31, 2015, launch. Science Team Member, Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS), NASA, Phase E, 2012-2018. International Science Team Member, Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM), China Academy of Science, Phase A, 2017 Launch. Principal Investigator, The Hydrosphere State satellite mission (HYDROS), NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder program, 2000-2005.