Eric Franklin Wood

Background

Wood, Eric Franklin was born on October 22, 1947 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Son of Lorne George and Olga Eugena (Hryvnak) Wood.

Education

Bachelor of Science with honours, U. B.C., 1970; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972; Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974.

Career

Research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1970-1973; research scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria, 1974-1976; professor сivil engineering, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1976. EOS science steering committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984-1987, science advisory working group, 1992, land surface processes advising committee, 1985-1990, Landsat science working group, 1992-1993, MTPE Biennial Review Panel, 1997. Member Continental Internat.Project science steering committee World Climate Research Program, 1993-1995.

Member policy advisory panel Continental Water-Energy Climate Project, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, 1996-1997.

Achievements

• Eric Franklin Wood has been listed as a noteworthy Earth and environmental sciences educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Geophysical Union (member editorial board Water Resources Monographs, 1980-1985, executive member hydrology section 1984-1985, 88-92, 94-95, union fellows committee 1994-1998, chair since 1998, union meeting committee 1988-1990, chairman remot sensing committee, 1988-1992, Horton research committee 1992-1995, Robert E. Horton award 1988), American Meteorological Society (couon. since 1999, hydrology committee 1987-1990, chair since 1997). Member Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, NAS (commission on flood levee policy, water science technology board 1997-2000, bd.atmospheric science and climatology since 1999, commission on hydrologic science since 1999), National Science Foundation (member committee of flood hazard mitigation 1979-1980, panel on engineering and global climate change 1991), British Hydrol.

Interests

• Avocations: squash, sailing, skiing.

Connections

Married Katharine Holding Schwed. Children: Eric Alexander, Emily Holding.

Father:

Lorne George Wood

Mother:

Olga Eugena (Hryvnak) Wood

Spouse:

Katharine Holding Schwed

child:

Emily Holding Wood

child:

Eric Alexander Wood