Fodar News

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 [...]

After the horrendous flooding of the Yukon in 2013 caused by ice jams, I’ve been working on demonstrating the how fodar may help us understand ice jam dynamics, improve predictions of [...]

This past year was a busy one for Fairbanks Fodar, but next year is showing signs of being even busier.  Here is a preview of what’s on the calendar already for 2016.   Mapping [...]

While at AGU a few weeks ago, several people asked me about the original blog posts where I described my initial successes with fodar and the events leading up to it.  These links had been broken [...]

Following our talk at AGU regarding the tallest peak in the US Arctic, a few news articles popped up. Here’s one from National Geographic. And another from our local Fairbanks paper which [...]

Which are the highest peaks in the US Arctic? A glaciologist and a ski mountaineer use Fodar to settle the debate Text by Kit DesLauriers Photos by Andy Bardon Since the beginning of time humans [...]

Today our paper on determining the highest peak in the US Arctic was published in The Cryosphere Discussions and we also released our final results in a talk at the 2015 Fall American Geophysical [...]