[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.