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Geologist joins DRI Board of Trustees

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003 | 8:49 a.m.

A Boston University professor who specializes in arid lands and remote sensing research has been elected to a three-year term on the Desert Research Institute Board of Trustees.

Farouk El-Baz began his appointment this month. He is a geologist and a veteran of the Apollo space program. He has spent much of his career studying the origin and evolution of arid landforms in desert regions worldwide.

He is a pioneer in the analysis of satellite images to explain the patterns of sand dunes and to reveal the topography beneath the sands.

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