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In the global conflict for dominance over the shape of the earth’s surface, plate tectonics has been the clear victor over erosional processes in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife [...]

Text and photos by Turner Nolan   Earth date: Sunday, 26 August 2018 Today I am being transported to the planet Earth to learn the ways of its inhabitants and report back to my people. I am [...]

As of July 26, not only are the winter 2018 seismic tracks still visible at Pt Thompson, the depressions they left behind are still measurable topographically with fodar.  I believe that it is [...]

In a little over a month after my first flight, I’ve now completed about 95% of acquisitions of the best topographic map ever made of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1002 Area, [...]

Week Two of my mapping efforts in the 1002 Area ended with acquisitions about 33% complete, covering ~2000 km2 at 5″ resolution by taking ~50,000 photos in ~7000 miles of flying.  My goal [...]

Last Sunday (24 June 2018), on my first day of creating the best topographic map ever made of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I was fortunate to find that seismic [...]

Turner and I spent a long weekend in Talkeetna, attending the 8th Annual Talkeetna Fly In, and used the opportunity to test some new fodar upgrades as well as participate in an opportunistic [...]

This blog will hopefully go a long way towards dispelling the myth that fodar cannot be used to measure ground topography beneath a tree canopy.  Whether it is the best tool for the job depends [...]

Last week Turner and I began our 2018 field season in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by mapping about 20 glaciers there on a beautiful, sunny day.  Our hope for the rest of the season is to [...]

There are a lot of remote, beautiful places in Alaska that we would like to map to assist a variety of useful public purposes, as Alaska is not mapped nearly as well as the rest of the country.  [...]