Elfatih Eltahir Explained

Elfatih Eltahir
Native Name:الفاتح الطاهر
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Name:Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir
Birth Place:Omdurman, Sudan
Citizenship:USA
Sudan
Workplaces:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma Mater:University of Khartoum (BSc)
National University of Ireland (MSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MSc, Sc.D.)
Thesis Title:Interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin
Thesis Url:https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/17311/28142745-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
Thesis Year:1993
Doctoral Advisor:Rafael L. Bras
Honorific Prefix:Professor
Awards:PECASE (1997)
Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences (1999)
Hydrologic Sciences Award, AGU (2017)
Website:https://eltahir.mit.edu/
Fields:Hydrology
Water Resources
Climate change
Meteorology
Honorific Suffix:FAGU, FTWAS

Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir (born October 1961) is a Sudanese -American Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and Director of the MIT-UM6P Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life and education

Elfatih Eltahir was born in Omdurman, Sudan, in October 1961 to Ali Babiker Eltahir and Nafisa Hassan Musa.[1]

He earned a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in civil engineering from the University of Khartoum in 1985.[2] He won the university Merghani Hamza Prize. He then completed a Master of Science (First Class Honours) in hydrology at the National University of Ireland in 1988, and winning the McLaughlin Award.[3] [4] Eltahir then completed another Master of Science in meteorology and a Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in Hydro-climatology, both in 1993, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[5] [6] His project was about the “interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin”, which was funded by the NASA Fellowship in Global Change Research and was supervised by Rafael L. Bras.[7]

Career and research

Eltahir continued working at MIT after his Sc.D. as a post-doctoral associate before being promoted to Assistant Professor in 1994. In 1995, he became the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair (1995-1998). In 1998, he became an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2003.[8] He is the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and the Director of the MIT-Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) Research Program which focuses on sustainable development in Africa.[9]

Eltahir's research focuses on developing numerical models, that are verified against satellite observations, to study how global climate change[10] [11] may impact society through changes in water availability[12] [13] and disease outbreaks,[14] [15] especially in Africa[16] [17] and Asia.[18] [19]

Award and honours

Eltahir received NASA’s New Investigator Award in 1996, US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1997,[20] and Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences for his work on Climate Change in 1999.[21] [22] He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008, and then received AGU's Hydrologic Sciences Award in 2017.[23]

In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),[24] [25] and a Fellow of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries. Eltahir is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Sudan Engineering Society, and the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences.

Personal life

Eltahir has six siblings, and married Shahinaz Ahmed Badri in December 1991. He has two children, Nafisa (Reuters’ Correspondent for Sudan and Egypt[26]) and Mohamed.[27]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eltahir . Elfatih . 1993-02-17 . Interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin . . 188 . Thesis.
  2. Web site: Professor Elfatih Eltahir Community Jameel . 2023-02-24 . www.communityjameel.org . en.
  3. Web site: s.r.l . Interfase . TWAS elects 50 new Fellows . 2023-02-24 . TWAS . 21 November 2022 . en.
  4. Web site: Arabic . M. I. T. . 2020-03-16 . تعرف على الباحث السوداني الفاتح الطاهر وجهوده في مواجهة التحديات المناخية . 2023-02-24 . إم آي تي تكنولوجي ريفيو . ar.
  5. Web site: Eltahir, Elfatih MIT Centre for Global Change Science . 2022-11-27 . cgcs.mit.edu . en.
  6. Web site: Research . mit.edu . April 26, 2017.
  7. Web site: CGC Host DB Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science . 2023-02-24 . cpaess.ucar.edu.
  8. Web site: Eltahir CV . 2023-02-24 . web.mit.edu.
  9. Web site: Elfatih A. B. Eltahir . 2023-02-26 . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . en-US.
  10. Siam . Mohamed S. . Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 2017-05-01 . Climate change enhances interannual variability of the Nile river flow . Nature Climate Change . en . 7 . 5 . 350–354 . 10.1038/nclimate3273 . 2017NatCC...7..350S . 1758-6798.
  11. Web site: Climate Change and Muslim Societies: Examples from Africa and Asia by Elfatih Eltahir . 2023-02-24 . islamicstudies.harvard.edu . en.
  12. Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 1998-04-01 . A Soil Moisture-Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 1. Theory and observations . Water Resources Research . en . 34 . 4 . 765–776 . 10.1029/97WR03499. 1998WRR....34..765E . 29397268 . free .
  13. Findell . Kirsten L. . Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 2003-06-01 . Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interactions. Part I: Framework Development . Journal of Hydrometeorology . EN . 4 . 3 . 552–569 . 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0552:ACOSML>2.0.CO;2 . 2003JHyMe...4..552F . 1525-7541. free .
  14. Yamana . Teresa K. . Bomblies . Arne . Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 2016-11-01 . Climate change unlikely to increase malaria burden in West Africa . Nature Climate Change . en . 6 . 11 . 1009–1013 . 10.1038/nclimate3085 . 2016NatCC...6.1009Y . 1758-6798.
  15. News: Jr . Donald G. Mcneil . 2008-12-22 . In Poor Villages, Low-Tech Efforts Can Help Prevent Insects and Disease . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-02-24 . 0362-4331.
  16. Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 1996-01-01 . El Niño and the Natural Variability in the Flow of the Nile River . Water Resources Research . en . 32 . 1 . 131–137 . 10.1029/95WR02968. 1996WRR....32..131E .
  17. Gong . Cuiling . Eltahir . Elfatih . 1996-10-01 . Sources of moisture for rainfall in West Africa . Water Resources Research . en . 32 . 10 . 3115–3121 . 10.1029/96WR01940. 1996WRR....32.3115G .
  18. Shalaby . A. . Rappenglueck . B. . Eltahir . E. a. B. . 2015-01-19 . The climatology of dust aerosol over the Arabian peninsula . Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions . English . 15 . 2 . 1523–1571 . 10.5194/acpd-15-1523-2015. 2015ACPD...15.1523S . free .
  19. Marcella . Marc P. . Eltahir . Elfatih A. B. . 2012-01-15 . Modeling the Summertime Climate of Southwest Asia: The Role of Land Surface Processes in Shaping the Climate of Semiarid Regions . Journal of Climate . EN . 25 . 2 . 704–719 . 10.1175/2011JCLI4080.1 . 2012JCli...25..704M . 1721.1/72524 . 14028082 . 0894-8755. free .
  20. Web site: Researcher wins presidential award for work on rain forests and rainfall . 2023-02-24 . web.mit.edu.
  21. Web site: Mohareb . Esraa . 2022-06-08 . Sudanese Hydrologist Calls for Tackling Root Causes of Nile Water Crisis . 2023-02-24 . Al-Fanar Media . en-US.
  22. Web site: 2014-02-18 . التقدم العلمي نظمت محاضرة علمية للفاتح الطاهر . 2023-02-26 . الانباء . ar-kw.
  23. Web site: AGU . 2017-10-27 . Eltahir Receives 2017 Hydrologic Sciences Award . 2022-11-27 . Eos . en-US.
  24. Web site: Dr. Elfatih A.B. Eltahir . 2023-02-24 . NAE Website . en.
  25. Web site: National Academy of Engineering Elects 106 Members and 18 International Members . 2023-02-24 . NAE Website . en.
  26. Web site: Nafisa Eltahir . 2023-02-26 . www.reuters.com.
  27. Web site: سودانيون في اميركا (10):د. الفاتح الطاهر، بروفسير في معهد ماساجوستس للتكنولوجيا/واشنطن: محمد علي صالح . 2023-02-26 . sudaneseonline.com.

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