Eric Franklin Wood (1947 – 3 November 2021) was a Canadian-American hydrologist. Wood was born in

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in 1947.Alternative URL
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in 1970, and completed a doctor of science degree in the subject at the

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in 1974. He joined the

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faculty in 1976, was later named Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and retired in 2019 with emeritus status. He was a fellow and 2010 awardee of the

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's Jule G. Charney Award. The

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also granted Wood fellowship in 2010. Wood was selected a fellow of the

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in 2013, received the

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's in 2014, elected a member of the

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in 2015, " r development of land surface models and use of

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for hydrologic modeling and prediction," and elected a fellow of the

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in 2017. The

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awarded fellowship, and in 2017, the

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to Wood. Wood died of cancer on 3 November 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Eric F. 1947 births 2021 deaths Canadian hydrologists American hydrologists Canadian emigrants to the United States Scientists from Vancouver Princeton University faculty University of British Columbia alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 20th-century American engineers Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering 21st-century American engineers 20th-century Canadian engineers 21st-century Canadian engineers Canadian civil engineers American civil engineers Environmental engineers Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Fellows of the American Meteorological Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Deaths from cancer in New Jersey