Dara Entekhabi

Dara Entekhabi is the Bacardi And Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on remote sensing techniques for soil and water, with an emphasis on Earth's water cycle and modeling land-atmosphere interactions. He is also involved in data assimilation, surface water-groundwater interaction, and hillslope hydrology. Entekhabi leads the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite mission and teaches courses on hydrology, water resources, and land-atmosphere interactions. His work spans multiple research areas, including remote sensing, boundary layer processes, and hydrologic modeling.

Dara Entekhabi is a professor at MIT, specializing in Global Hydrology and Earth Remote Sensing. His research focuses on understanding soil moisture dynamics, remote sensing techniques, and their integration into hydrological models. He has contributed significantly to the development and assessment of satellite-based soil moisture products, such as those from the SMAP mission. His work also explores the interaction between soil moisture and atmospheric processes, as well as the use of remote sensing data for hydrological data assimilation. Entekhabi's research emphasizes the importance of soil moisture in climate systems and its role in weather extremes and climate predictability.