The European Geosciences Union has chosen Princeton engineer Eric Wood to receive the 2007 John Dalton Medal.
The medal is awarded "for distinguished research in hydrology reviewed
as an earth science." Wood will receive the award at the union's annual
general assembly in Vienna the week of April 15, when he will
also deliver the Dalton Lecture.
A professor of civil and environmental engineering, Wood heads the
department's land surface hydrology research group. His main research
interests include hydroclimatology, with an emphasis on
land-atmospheric interactions, remote sensing of the terrestrial water
cycle and seasonal hydrologic climate forecasts.
Wood, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1976, is a fellow of the
American Geophysical Union and of the American Meteorological Society.
He was named the 2001 Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology by the
meteorological society and previously received the geophysical union's
Robert E. Horton Award and Princeton's Rheinstein Award. He currently
serves as an associate editor of Water Resources Research and is on the
editorial board of Hydrological Processes.
