Congratulations to ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Jordan Borak, newly elected Professional-Track Faculty (PTK) representative for the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) on the UMD Senate!
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The University Senate, composed of faculty, staff, students, and administrators, is one of the largest and most influential governing bodies at the University of Maryland. As a member of the senate, Borak will help advise the University President on campus policy matters and concerns, including education, budget, personnel, campus-community, long range plans, facilities, and faculty, staff and student affairs. He joins current ESSIC Senator Isaac Moradi and 11 other CMNS PTK on the Senate.
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Borak’s work with ESSIC focuses mainly on remote sensing of land surface properties, and on vegetation parameters in particular. He is a member of the ICESat-2 Science Team, where he serves as Principal Investigator on a project designed to enhance satellite-derived vegetation roughness estimates with ICESat-2 observations. He also serves as Co-Investigator on NASA’s National Climate Assessment Land Data Assimilation System (NCA-LDAS) project, and works on a NIST-funded study that uses satellite observations to assess community resilience in Puerto Rico within the context of Hurricane Maria.
