"Whenever you are asked if
you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Mark Borsuk received a B.S.E. in Civil
Engineering and Operations Research from
Mark’s research broadly concerns
the use of scientific information in complex decision processes. More specifically, he develops methods and
models that integrate knowledge and data across disciplines to generate
probabilistic predictions for supporting environmental and human health policy
and management. He uses multiattribute
utility theory to relate these predictions to the preferences and risk
attitudes of decision-makers, organizations, and the public.
Recently funded projects focus on the
development of decision analytic approaches for understanding and enabling
regional sustainability. In one project,
an interdisciplinary team will be assessing whether explicitly linking mercury
pollution to biological and social indicators is likely to increase the motivation
for individual and organizational stakeholders to act in ways that promote
ecological, economic, and social sustainability. The focus of another project will be on
exploring the implications of epistemic uncertainty for integrated assessment
of climate change.
Mark has taught courses in modeling,
decision analysis, systems analysis, and statistics at the undergraduate,
professional, and graduate levels.
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