Dr. Farouk El-Baz: Curriculum Vitae

Professional Appointments

1967

• Member, Lunar Orbiter Data Analysis Group
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Member, Lunar Orbiter Site Selection Subpanel
  Langley Research Center, NASA

• Secretary, Site Selection Subgroup
  Group for Lunar Exploration Planning, NASA
• Member, Apollo Science Support Team
  Apollo missions 8 through 14

With Apollo Program Director Rocco Petrone

1970

• Member, Apollo Orbital Science Photographic Team
  Office of the Apollo Program Director, NASA
• Chairman, Crew Training and Flight Planning Groups
  Apollo Orbital Science Photographic Team, NASA

• Member, Mission Operations Science Support Team
  L.B. Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, Texas
• Member, Apollo Orbital Science Photographic Team
  L.B. Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, Texas
• Chairman, Planetary Geology Session
  Geological Society of America

• Member, U.S. Delegation
  Committee on Space Research, Madrid, Spain

• Member, Joint Lunar Cartographic Programs
  U.S. Delegation to the U.S.S.R.
• Member, Lunar Photographic and Cartographic Committee
  Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Texas

With the Emir of Qatar Sh. Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani and Apollo-Soyuz
astronauts Tom Stafford and Deke Slayton during Gulf lecture tour

1974

• Adjunct Professor of Geology and Geophysics
  University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

1975

• Member, Arabian Gulf Lecture Tour (with Apollo-Soyuz Test Project astronauts)
  U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C.

• Chief, Surface Processes and Properties Group
  Lunar Science Review Panel
  Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Texas
• Member, Steering Committee for Earth Sciences
  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Member, Earth Resources Review Panel
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Adjunct Professor of Geology, Faculty of Science
  Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
• Member, Search Committee for Director of the National Air and Space Museum
  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Member, Arid and Semi-Arid Research Needs
  National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

• Member, U.S. Delegation of Desert Experts to China
  National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

• Liaison Officer of the American Society of Photogrammetry
  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Member, Sensor System Committee, Primary Data Acquisition Division
  American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

• Member, International Advisory Council of Symphony of United Nations
  United Nations, New York

• Research Associate, National Air and Space Museum
  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Representative; U.S.-Indo Workshop on Arid Zone Research
  US National Science Foundation and the Department of Science and Technology,
  Jaipur, India
• Member, American Defense Preparedness Association
  Washington, D.C.

• Organizer, International Workshop on Sand Transport and Desertification in Arid Lands, Khartoum, Sudan

• Convener, Desertification and Environmental Monitoring Session
  Twentieth Symposium of Remote Sensing of Environment, Nairobi, Kenya
• Class Coordinator, Homecoming
  Alumni Association of the University of Missouri at Rolla

• Organizer, International Workshop on Remote Sensing and Resource Exploration International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
  
  
  
  With Saudi astronaut H.H. Prince Sultan bin Salman
  
  
• Cooperating Professor, Arid Zone Research Program
  Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain
• Lecturer: On the Shoulders of Giants Series
  Talcott Mountain Center for Student Involvement, Inc.
  Avon, Connecticut
• Lecturer: Sunoco Science Seminars
  National Science Teachers Association
  35th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
• Roundtable Presenter, Aerospace Education Center
  Air Force Association, Arlington, Virginia

• Special Guest Speaker
  J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

• Chairman, Standing Committee for Environmental Hazards and Global Change
  Third World Network of Scientific Organizations,
  Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy

• Fund Raising Committee to match the James Irvine Foundation Grant for the Participation of Minority Students in Earthwatch Research Expeditions,
  Earthwatch, Watertown, Massachusetts
• Convenor, International Conference on Arid Lands
  Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy

• Chairman, Nomination Committee, Geological and Earth Science
  Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy
• Chairman, The First International Conference on the Great Sphinx
  Egyptian Antiquities Organization, Cairo, Egypt
• Vice President -- International; Second Century Fund Committee
  Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado

• Chairman, Geologic Impacts of the Gulf War Session
  Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts

• Member, Middle East Water Information Network
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Adjunct Professor of Geology, Faculty of Science
  Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
• Senior Advisor, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
  Ministry of Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt
• Member, Committee on Honorary Fellows
  Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado

• Chairman, Consultation of Strategies for Scientific and Technological Research in Biodiversity and Land Degradation in the South, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy; sponsored by the Global Environment Facility, Washington, D.C.
• Chairman, Search Committee for the Chair-person, Department of Earth Sciences
  Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

• Chairman, National Science Foundation Workshop
  "Sand Accumulation and Groundwater in the Eastern Sahara," Cairo, Egypt

• Featured in "From the Earth to the Moon" Television Series Segment 10 "Galileo was Right" Home Box Office (HBO), produced by Tom Hanks
• Co-Chairman, National Science Foundation U.S.-Egypt Workshop
  "Priorities for Desert Research," Cairo, Egypt
• Invited Speaker, UNIDIR Workshop
  Potential Uses of Commercial Satellite Imagery in the Middle East
  United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
• Chairman: Earth Sciences Membership Committee
  Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy

• Member, U.S. National Committee
  International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
  U.S. National Research Council
  Washington, DC
• Senior Advisor
  World Commission on Water for the 21st Century
  United Nations/World Bank
  

• Co-Convenor
  Geological Hazards and Natural Disasters
  31st International Geological Congress
  6-17 August 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Technical Program Co-Chairman
  2nd International Conference on Earth Observations and Environmental Information
  11-14 November 2000, Cairo, Egypt
• Appointed by H.E. Koichiro Matsuura, Director General, UNESCO
  Member, Great Man-Made River Prize Committee
  UNESCO, Paris, France
• Appointed as Technical Reviewer by UNESCO for:
  Sustainable Development of the South Valley and Sinai, Egypt
  UNDP/UNESCO Project for Capacity Building at:
  Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority (EGSMA) and
  National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS)
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board
  The Reiss Institute
  Washington D.C.

2001

• Member, Honorary Committee
  50th Anniversary of AMIDEAST
  Washington, D.C.
• Keynote Speaker
  International Conference on Petroleum Contamination
  Imperial College, London
• Moderator, "2001: A Space Odyssey"
  Round Table of Experiences in Space
  UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

2002

• Senior Advisor
  Supreme Council of Antiquities
  Egyptian Antiquities Organization
  Ministry of Culture
  Cairo, Egypt
• Member, International Organizing Committee
  Third international Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas
  Istanbul, Turkey

2003

• Chair, Data and Interpretation in the Environmental Sector
  International Symposium on Open Access and Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
  UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
• Member of the Selection Committee
  John C. Frye Memorial Award in Environmental Geology
  Geological Society of America
  Boulder, Colorado

2004

• Delegate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
  International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
  32nd International Geological Congress
  Florence, Italy (August 20-28, 2004)
• Convener, Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring Geological Hazards (T32.04)
  32nd International Geological Congress
  Florence, Italy (August 20-28, 2004)
• Member, Fondation Deserts du Monde
  Gharadata, Algiers, Algeria

2005

• Chairman, Charles Stark Draper Award
  U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Member, International Geoscience Progress (IGCP)
  International Union of Geological Sciences
  UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
• Chairman, Remote Sensing Conference
  Kuwait, September 2005
• Honorary President
  Arab Union of Scientists and Researchers
  Tanta, Egypt
• Member, Membership Committee
  Astronomy and Space Sciences
  Third World Academy of Sciences
  Trieste, Italy
• Member, TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences
  Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
  Trieste, Italy
• Chair, U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• Honorary Advisor, Dubai Astronomy Group
  Dubai, U.A.E.

2006

• Senior Advisor, University of the Sinai
  El-Arish, Egypt
• Member of the Supreme Advisory Board Ministry of Petroleum
  Cairo, Egypt
• Member of the Board of Trustees, Arab Thought Forum
  Amman, Jordan

2007

• 2007 Member, Nomination Committee, Astronomy
  Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
  Trieste, Italy
• Member, Fundraising Committee
  Geological Society of America Foundation
• Member, USA National Committee International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE)
  Washington, D.C.
• Member of the Board, Center for Astronomy
  Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  Alexandria, Egypt
• Committee on Grand Challenges for Engineering (2006-present)
  National Academy of Engineering
  Washington, D.C.