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After two weeks of effort, flying over 6000 miles and acquiring over 35,000 photos, we have now nearly completed acquisitions for the most detailed and accurate topographic map of Denali National [...]

A week ago today I was flying over the haul road near Deadhorse acquiring photos to make a map of the aufeis threatening to close the haul road, and today I delivered that map.  Snow and ice are [...]

Today I found out that the State of Alaska officially released the first batch of data from our coastal work in southwest Alaska.  Included here are all of the villages that they were able to [...]

Today I flew to Deadhorse to map the stretch of the haul road that got shut down last year when aufeis from the Sag River decided to divert the river over the road.  This road is the only ground [...]

Today marks completion of acquisitions of a continuous mile-wide swath of topographic measurements of Alaskan coastline from Wales to Platinum, plus some inland rivers, covering a combined linear [...]

Work on the DNR coastal project made a big leap forward today with the mapping of the villages of Goodnews and Quinhagak, as well as the remainder of Goodnews Bay, completing the southeastern [...]

Today I mapped the coast from Bethel to Goodnews Bay.  Sort of… Like most field work, weather is everything.  For the past several days there’s been a huge trough spanning the entire [...]

Phase two of the DNR project mapping coastlines and villages in western Alaska began today by mapping the village of Eek, and by day’s end included the villages of Kongiginak and [...]

Today I flew from Fairbanks to Bethel via the scenic route — following the Yukon River to check out what was happening to the river ice. I have been working on developing new techniques to [...]

At the risk of seeming to be yet another company jumping on the Earth Day bandwagon gratuitously, I just thought to mention that every idea we have about ‘protecting’ our planet stems [...]