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 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering also granted Wood fellowship in 2010. Wood was selected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 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 remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction," and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017. The

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awarded fellowship, and in 2017, the Robert E. Horton Medal to Wood. Wood died of cancer on 3 November 2021.

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