PROFESSIONAL  SERVICE

• Editor-in-Chief, Sensors, Remote Sensor section
• Guest Editor, Special Issue, Sensors journal: Advances in Remote Sensors for Earth Observation and Modeling of Earth Processes
• Guest Editor, Remote Sensing journal:Remote Sensing of Water Resources Monitoring, Parametrization and Modeling
• Guest Editor, Special Issue, Sensors: 10 Years Sensors – A Decade of Publishing
• Gust editor,Special Issue: Hydrologic System Analysis, Patterns, and Predictions for Arid and Semi-arid Environment, Water
• Guest editor, Special Issue:Sensors and Sensing in Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring, Sensors
• Editor, Nile River: Climate, land use and hydrology, Springer Science Book
• Guest Editor, Special Issue: Climate, weather and hydrology of East African Highlands” as part of the journal  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)
• Member, Fulbright Panel Review committee, Fulbright, 2012
• Member, Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) Agricultural Advisory Committee
• Guest Editor, Special Issue: Climate change,  land-use dynamics and ecohydrology of the Nile River basin, Hydrological Processes
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, J. of Spatial Hydrology, 2009-2012
• Editor-in-Chief, J. of Spatial Hydrology (2006-2009)
• Guest Editor, Special Issue:  Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment for Sensors journal
• Editor, Proceedings of the Nile workshop on the hydrology and ecology of the Nile River under extreme conditions.
• Guest Editor, Special issue Land surface Fluxes, Remote Sensing journal
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board for Sensors journal (RS section)
• Member, Editorial Board, Remote Sensing journal
• Member, EORSA Program Committee, Second International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA 2012), Tongji University, Shanghai City from June 8 to June 11, 2012.
• Advisory Committee member, 4th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S2015) 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Director, Graduate Program 2019-2023
• Director,  Graduate Certificate in Water, Environment, and Development Studies (WEDev) Program
• Director, Undergraduate Environmental Studies Certificate Program (2014-2019)
• Director, Graduate GIS and Remote Sensing Certificate Program
• FIU’s Fulbright Faculty Liaison 2018-
• Member, Graduate  Committee (EVR) (2004-2008), 2009-2011, 2015-
• Member,  University-wide Mentor Advisory Board
• Member, Faculty Senate 2014-2015
• Library Representative, E & E, 2012
• Chair, Curriculum Committee (EVR)  2008-2009
• Member, Curriculum Committee (EVR) (2007-2011)
• Member, Human Resources Committee (E & E) (2012-)
• Secretary, Departmental Faculty Meeting (2005/06)
• Member, Science Task Force (EVR) (2005-2006)
• Member, University-wide Remote Sensing and GIS Advisory Committee (FIU) 2004-
• Member of College-wide School of the Environment exploratory Committee (2005)
• Member faculty search committee (Climatology position) (2011)
• Member faculty search committee (Meteorology position) (2010)
• Member, Faculty Advisory Council for Center for African New World Studies
• Member, Coordinating Committee for Certificate in Agroecology, (EVR)
• Member, Coordinating Committee for Certificate in GIS (FIU) 2007-
• Member, Sustainability Degree Committee, CAS
• Florida Chapter Representative in SWFWMD, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).
• Alternate FIU Representative, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science (CUAHSI)
• Faculty Advisor, FIU AWRA Student Chapter

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Member, Academy of American Water Resource Engineers, 2009-present
• Order of the Engineer, 2000 – present.
• Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), (1999 – present)
• Member, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), (1999 – present)
• Member, Gamma Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon, (2000 – present)

 JOURNAL/BOOK CHAPTER REVIEWER

• Nature-Sustainability
• Water Resources Research
• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)
• Advances in Water Resources
• Journal of Hydrology
• Remote Sensing of Environment
• Hydrological Processes
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Brazilian Geophysical Society
• Sensors
• Geocarta International
• Natural Hazards Review
• Journal of American Water Resources Association
• Transactions of American Society of Agricultural Engineers: Soil and Water Division
• Transactions of American Society of Agricultural Engineers: Information & Electrical Technologies Division
• Hydrobiologia
• Hydrological Sciences Journal
• Journal of Water Resources Management
• Atmospheric Research
• Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS)
• Journal of Coastal Research
• Journal of Environmental Quality

 Book/Book Chapter Review

• Book Review, Springer
• Book Review CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
• Scaling issue in Remote sensing, Book review, John Wiley & Sons
• Book Proposal Review, Elsevier

 Dissertation/Thesis Review

• University of Engineering and Technology, Texila
• Bahir Dar University
• University of United Arab Emirates
• Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Thesis Award
• University of Florence, Italy, Dissertation Review

 PANEL MEMBER/PROPOSALS REVIEWER

• NSF EPSCoR RII,Track-1 Program (Panel Review)
• Oak Ridge Associate Universities (ORAU), Ralph Powe Award Program Review
• Belgian Earth Observation Programme, STEREO III Programme
• Washington Fellowship For Young African Leaders, President Obama Initiative
• Fulbright Program Panel Review 2012
• Steering Committee Member, HiWET, Belgium, 2016-2019
• REACH, Global Advisory Panel member, 2018-
• NASA Postdoc Program Review
• NSF Environmental Sustainability Program (Panel Review)
• Netherlands Space Office (NSO)
• Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
• NSF, Geography and Regional Science Program
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, Cooperative Grants Program
• National Institute for Space Research Program, Bureau External Research (The Netherlands), Earth Observation Research
• BARD, the United States – Israel Binational Agricultural Research & Development Fund
• NIWR-USGS National Competitive Grants Program
• Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology   (CICEET)
• Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK,) Wageningen University, Netherlands
• AWRA’s Richard A. Herbert Scholarship  Award
• National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation, Kazakhstan
• United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant