Marc Simard
Senior Scientist at JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Simard is a Senior Scientist at NASA JPL with over a decade of experience designing airborne and spaceborne lidar and radar interferometry missions to map forest structure, coastal wetlands, and sea surface height. He leads NASA’s Delta-X mission in the Mississippi River Delta and serves as a SWOT Science PI applying SWOT data to coastal regions, translating advanced remote sensing into actionable ecosystem vulnerability and hydrodynamic products. His work produces global forest structure and digital elevation maps used to assess climate and human impacts on ecosystems and livelihoods, and he regularly leads field campaigns to validate models and algorithms. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in Geomatics Sciences, he combines deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on mission development and an uncommon habit of integrating ocean simulation-based instrument simulators into his workflow to test measurement error impacts.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geomatics Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geomatics Sciences at Université LavalBachelor's Degree, Physics, Honours in Astrophysics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Honours in Astrophysics at Queen's University
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (3)
data-access3
binder2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
SWOT-JPL/swotsimulator
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 127 pushes, 73 branches in 1 year 1 month
WangJPL/swotsimulator
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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