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Ghost and zombie glaciers of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

About half the glaciers here have disappeared and the rest are on their way -- how will this affect ecology in the 1002 Area?

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Is there enough snow in the 1002 Area to keep seismic operations from harming the Porcupine Caribou Herd?

Can the Porcupine Caribou Herd be protected from seismic operations in the 1002 Area? This blog addresses what that would look like.

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Sensitivity of the 1002 Area to disturbance by seismic operations

Fodar data tells the tale of a landscape that has changed more over the past 10 years than in the past 1000, making it especially vulnerable to disturbance.

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How seismic operations threaten the Porcupine Caribou Herd

The 1002 Area is not a coastal plain, and this has important implications for how disturbance by seismic vehicles may impact the Porcupine Caribou Herd.

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Fodar makes 50 billion measurements of snow depth in Arctic Alaska

Learn more about the largest, highest-resolution snow-depth measurement-campaign within Arctic Alaska ever made, in support of a variety of scientific and regulatory needs.

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2020 Fodar Measurements of Snow Depth in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

I just completed making over 20 billion measurements of snow depth over about 1500 square kilometers of tundra and mountains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — my third year mapping snow on [...]

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I Saw Sea Ice Off the Sea Shore

This past weekend we took on perhaps our most challenging photogrammetric project yet – mapping sea ice 150 miles northeast of Deadhorse during the ICEX 2020 project.

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On the Relationship Between Oil and Snow in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

About a month ago I mapped snow cover of about 1/3 of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and here I present some initial processing results along with some thoughts on its [...]

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On the intrinsic value of arctic snow cover

While individually processing the tens of thousands of vertical mapping photos from my last trip to the 1002 Area of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I couldn't help but to linger on the [...]

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The importance of measuring snow and ice in the 1002 Area of the Arctic NWR

I just returned from a few weeks of using fodar to map the snow depth of over 1/3 of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at 12.5 cm resolution, as well as about 700 square [...]