Fodar News

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 [...]

Our 2016 summer field season started off yesterday with a long day trip to map ice and snow in the watershed of Lake Peters in eastern Brooks Range.  The project is led by Dr Darrell Kaufman of [...]

Fairbanks Fodar was featured in this month’s Alaska Business Monthly.  The article describes some of our recent work and promise for Alaska.  Click on one of the links below to read it. [...]

Between 1960-1995, a crew at the USGS made annual flights to photograph the state of glaciers in western North America, with the bulk of them taken by Austin Post to form what would become the [...]