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· Editor-in-Chief, Sensors, Remote Sensor section

· Editor, Nile River: Climate, land use and hydrology, Springer Science Book

· Guest Editor, Special Issue: Climate, weather and hydrology of East African Highlands" part of the journal  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

· 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-

· 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, Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) Agricultural Advisory Committee

· Member, Graduate Admission Committee (EVR) (2004-2008), 2010-

· Chair, Curriculum Committee (EVR)  2008-09

· Member, Curriculum Committee (EVR) (2007-2008)

· 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 Advisory Council for Center for African New World Studies

· Chair, Coordinating Committee for Graduate Certificate in Water, Environment, and Development Studies (WEDev), (EVR)

· Member, Coordinating Committee for Certificate in Agroecology, (EVR)

· Member, Coordinating Committee for Certificate in GIS (FIU)

· 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)

Professional membership

1. Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), (1999 - present)

2. Member, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), (1999 - present)

3. Member, Gamma Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon, (2000 - present)

Journal /Book Reviewer

· Water Resources Research

· Advances in Water Resources

· Journal of Hydrology

· Remote Sensing of Environment

· Hydrological Processes

· Journal of Environmental Management

· Sensors

· Journal of American Water Resources Association

· Transactions of ASABE: Soil and Water Division

· Transactions of ASABE: Information & Electrical Technologies Division 

· Hydrobiologia

· Hydrological Sciences Journal

· Journal of Water Resources Managment

· Atmospheric Research

· Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS)

· Journal of Coastal Research

· Journal of Environmental Quality

· CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

· Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Thesis Award

PROPOSALS REVIEWED FOR:

1. NSF (Panel Review), Environmental Sustainability Program           
2. U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, Cooperative Grants Program
3. National Institute for Space Research Program, Bureau External Research (The Netherlands), Earth Observation ResearcCooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology     (CICEET)
4. BARD, the United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research & Development Fund
5. NIWR-USGS National Competitive Grants Program
6. NSF, Geography and Regional Science Program
7. USDA