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With the storm still raging, I had some time to process the Nome acquisitions from two days ago. Here’s a top view of the new map.  Mouse-over to see the topography created by the same [...]

Taking advantage of a tight weather window, I flew 16 out of 28 hours, covering 1500 miles while taking 15,000 photos of lots of coast and four more villages, and ended up in Nome. My original [...]

[Note: This post was originally published August 21st, but mistakenly not with the Fodar News tag]   Ever since I saw Toksook Bay on the map I’ve been thinking of 1980s B-grade horror [...]

[Note: this post was originally published August 20th, but mistakenly not with the Fodar News tag] Tuntutuliak and Kipnuk are now in the can. Or would be if I were shooting film. So I guess [...]

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 [...]