Eric F. Wood is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University where he heads the department's Land Surface Hydrology Research Group. His main research interests include observing through remote sensing and modeling of continental-to-global scale terrestrial hydrologic processes. This work includes understanding the hydrologic implications of climate variability and change, seasonal hydrologic climate forecasting, and land-climate teleconnections.

Wood earned his Sc.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and joined the Princeton faculty two years later. Dr. Wood has received a number of awards and recognition for his research contributions. These include receiving the 2007 European Geosciences Union John Dalton Medal, the 1977 Robert E. Horton Award from the American Geophysical Union, the Rheinstein Award from Princeton University and the 2001 Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology by the American Meteorological Society. He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Meteorological Society.

He currently serves as an associate editor of "Water Resources Research" and is on the editorial board of "Hydrological Processes" and serves as chair of the National Academies Committee on Hydrologic Sciences.