Service

 PROFESSIONAL  SERVICE

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

  • Board of Trustee Member, Academy of American Water Resource Engineers, ASCE
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Member, American Academy of Environmental Engineers  & Scientists (AAEES
  • Member, International Water Resources Association (IWRA) 2021-
  • Member International Water Association (IWA)
  • Member, International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
  • 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
  • Nature: Communications
  • 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

  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamilnadu, India
  • University of Engineering and Technology, Texila
  • Bahir Dar University
  • Addis Ababa University
  • Addis Ababa Science and Technology University
  • Haromaya University
  • University of United Arab Emirates
  • Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Thesis Award
  • University of Florence, Italy, Dissertation Review

 PANEL MEMBER/PROPOSALS REVIEWER

    • NSF SBIR, Panel
    • Quad Fellowship Panel, 2022
    • NSF (Panel Review), 2019
    • NSF EPSCoR RSV (Panel Review)
    • 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 US Scholar Program Regional Panel Review 2012
    • Fulbright African Scholar Program Regional Panel Review 2013
    • Fulbright US Scholar Program Discipline Review 2018
    • NASA Postdoc Program Review
    • Steering Committee Member, HiWET, Belgium, 2016-2018
    • REACH, Global Advisory Panel member, 2018-2023
    • NSF Environmental Sustainability Program (Panel Review)
    • Netherlands Space Office (NSO)
    • NSF, Geography and Regional Science Program
    • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    • S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, Cooperative Grants Program
    • The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • 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
    • International Science Foundation (IFS)
    • National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation, Kazakhstan (2016-2023
    • Member, Pharmaco-Kinesis Scientific Advisory Board, 2016
    • United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
    • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
    • Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
    • Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust (Panel, 2020, 2023 and 2024)
    • South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, USGS