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The Yukon and Kuskokwim Delta have formed one giant delta over millions of years and the area is generally known as the Y-K delta for short. The current deltas are separated by about two hundred [...]

This morning the best weather on the west coast was in the place where the weather is usually the worst, so I headed there. Between the Yukon and Kuskokwim River deltas lies some small mountains [...]

On Monday I relocated to Bethel and have been able to fly a bit each day, clawing my way under the clouds. The forecast Monday was for the Yukon Delta to be open, so I headed there early in the [...]

Our peer-reviewed paper on mapping snow depths was recently published in the journal “The Cryosphere”.  To my knowledge, there is no better way to measure the depth of snow on [...]

Another good day of weather led to 9 hours of flying and 8880 photos covering 860 miles of flight lines, including all of the coast from Golovin Bay to Stebbins. The early morning showed fog over [...]

After nearly a week of waiting for the weather to break, today the clouds lifted and I was able to map the coast from Unalakleet to Golovin Bay, in a 9 hour flight capturing 7900 photos. The past [...]

Since my arrival in Unalakleet the weather has deteriorated.  Yesterday brought consistently low ceilings throughout Norton Sound, with winds increasing as the day wore on.  This morning I woke [...]

In less than a week from signing a contract with the State to map the entire coastline from Wales to Bethel, we have already made our first map here.  Or rather our second, since I made one here [...]

Fairbanks Fodar was just awarded a huge project by Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources — to map over 2000 miles of coastline in western Alaska. The project is to map a 1.5 km [...]