Boris Yurchak, Senior Research Scientist, GEST Fellow

GEST Research Group:

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

GSFC Code:

614.1

Mailing Address:

Hydrological and Biospheric Sciences
Building 33, Room A109
NASA GSFC, Code 614.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-5853

Fax:

(301) 614-5644

Email:

boris.s.yurchak@nasa.gov

Most Recent Publication

Yurchak, B.S. (2007), Description of Cloud-Rain Bands in a Tropical Cyclone by a Hyperbolic-Logarithmic Spiral, Russian Meteorology and Hydrology, 32, No. 1, pp. 8-19, DOI: 10.3103/S1068373907010025.

Research Interests:

Remote sensing applications for cold regions. In particular, developing the technique and analyzing the snow cover dynamics of areas within the coastal zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet based on the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data.

Biography:

Dr. Boris Yurchak Dr. Boris Yurchak received a M.S. in Electronics, from Kharkov Institute of Radioelectronics, USSR in 1969, and a Ph.D. in geophysics (physics and mathematics) in 1980 from the Institute of Experimental Meteorology, Goskomhidromet (USSR Weather Service), Obninsk. His major research interest was radar methodology applications to cloud and precipitation measurements and atmospheric diffusion. From 1969 to 1996, Dr.Yurchak served as a research scientist, senior research scientist at the Institute of Experimental Meteorology, developing radar methodology for atmospheric research. In period from 1988 to 1992 he served as a co-director of the Joint Soviet-Vietnamese Center on Tropical Meteorology in Hanoi, Vietnam. From 1996 to 2001 he served as a senior research scientist and branch head at the Russia Federal Environmental Emergency Response Center, Obninsk, Russia, where he developed remote system for detecting clouds of chemical and radioactive pollutants at emergency situation. Also he used remote sensing capabilities for study of environment contamination. In July 2002 Dr. Yurchak joined Caelum Research Corporation and started working on the NASA's Earth Science & Public Health Program. In June 2003 he joined UMBC where continued working on the program. Since 2006 he is working on the NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program. Dr. Yurchak has been with GEST since July 2002. His current research interests include remote sensing applications for cold regions and radar backscatter from spatially extended geophysical targets.