Farouk El-Baz

Dr. Farouk El-Baz

• Director, University of the Middle East Project

Advisory Committee Memberships (Selected)

Government Agencies:

• Steering Committee for Earth Science, Smithsonian Institution
• Non-Renewable Resources Review Panel, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Arid and Semi-Arid Research Needs, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Other Organizations:

• Advisory Board, Program on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
• Advisory Committee, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California
• Senior Advisor, Division of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait
• Advisory Council, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait
• Evaluation Panel, Research Evaluation Unit (1988-present), Commission of the European Community, Brussels, Belgium
• Advisory Board, Great Man-Made River Project (1988-2004), UNESCO, Paris, France
• Science Advisory Board (1988-present), Explorers Club, New York
• Award Committee (1990-present), Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait
• Steering Committee (1990-present), International Centre for Earth Sciences and Environment, Treiste, Italy
• Member, Board of Advisors (1991-present), Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Member of the Council (1991-present), World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Prizes and Awards Committee (1992-present), Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts
• Member of the Advisory Council (1992-present), International Institute of Boston
• Member of the International Advisory Council, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zinjan, Iran
• Member of the General Advisory Board (1996), Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Water, Energy, Environment, Food, and Agriculture, NASA Center for Autonomous Central Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Expert, Global Terrestrial Observation System, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy
• Advisor, Mars Drill Committee (1997-present), Ministry of State for Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt
• Member, Council for Space Sciences and Technology, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Ministry of Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt
• Committee of Applications, Earth Sciences and Climate Change (1998-present), Council for Space Sciences and Technology, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt
• Member, Advisory Board, Arab Science and Technology Foundation, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Co-Chair; Sheering Committee Member; and Keynote Speaker, Second International Conference on Earth Observation And Environmental Information, 11-14 November 2000, Cairo, Egypt
• Member, Expert Panel, The World Monuments Fund, New York, N.Y.
• Member, Charles Stark Draper Prize Award (2003-2004), National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C.
• Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, D.C.
• Member, Geological Applications of Remote Sensing, International Union of Geological Sciences, UNESCO, Paris, France
• Member, External Advisory Committee, NOAA South Texas Remote Sensing Cooperative Science Center, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas
• Member, Desert Research Institute Foundation, Nevada Board of Regents, Reno, Nevada
• Member of the Board of Advisors, Clearwater LLC, Concord, Massachusetts
• Chair, Charles Stark Draper Prize Award (2005-2006), National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C.
• Member of the Advisory Board, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
• Arab Group for Ethics in Science, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
• Chair, U.S. National Committee for Geological Sciences, The National Academies, Washington, D.C.
• Member, International Academy Panel, 2006 Conference, Alexandria, Egypt
• Member, External Advisory Council, Aramco Services Company, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• Member, Advisory Board, Geology and Geophysics Alumni, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO
• Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Climate Changes And their Impacts on Coastal Zones and River Deltas Vulnerability, Mitigation and Adaptation, Alexandria, Egypt
• Member of the Board, Mentor Arabia, Beirut, Lebanon
• Honorary Chairman (2007, Arab Youth STEM Challenge, Dubai, U.A.E.

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Earthwatch Institute: International Advisory Council