Eric Franklin Wood (1947 – 3 November 2021) was a Canadian-American hydrologist.
Wood was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1947.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1970, and completed a doctor of science degree in the subject at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.[2] He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1976, was later named Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and retired in 2019 with emeritus status.[1] He was a fellow and 2010 awardee of the American Meteorological Society's Jule G. Charney Award.[3] The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering also granted Wood fellowship in 2010.[4] Wood was selected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013,[5] received the European Geosciences Union's Alfred Wegener Medal [de] in 2014,[6][7] elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015, "[f]or development of land surface models and use of remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction,"[8] and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017.[9] The American Geophysical Union awarded fellowship,[10] and in 2017, the Robert E. Horton Medal to Wood.[11]
Wood died of cancer on 3 November 2021.[1][3]