Please join us on Monday, March 9th:
STS Colloquium
Sanctions, Containment and Science in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Dara Entekhabi, MIT
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
ABSTRACT: As part of the STS colloquium series titled Science and
Technology in Africa, Asia, and Beyond, Professor Entekhabi will
relate his personal experiences in scientific collaborations with
researchers in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The challenges of
working these collaborations and impressions about the effects of
sanctions and containment policies on the development of science in
Iran will be discussed.
BIO: Dara Entekhabi is a professor in the MIT Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering with joint appointment in the MIT
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. He was born
in Iran and obtained a doctorate from MIT in 1990. He is the director
of the Ralph M. Parsons Lab for Environmental Science and Engineering
and he currently serves as the director of the MIT Earth System
Initiative. His areas of research are satellite remote sensing, earth
observations and earth system modeling. He currently serves as the
science lead for a NASA satellite mission titled Soil Moisture Active
and Passive Mission (SMAP) that is due to be launched in 2013.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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