Past Projects

Here are a collection of projects that no longer tie directly in with what I'm doing now, though some are still being wrapped up.

Lake El'gygytgyn: I began working on this project in 1999 along with a great group of colleagues. The overall project was to extract a sediment core from a meteorite impact crater in eastern Siberia, but my end of it was mostly remote sensing and modern process studies.

Virtual Globes: Before Keyhole was a gleam in Google's eye, I created EarthSLOT, which I believe was the first virtual globe that used the full SRTM and Landsat global mosaics in a free streaming server.

DInSAR Soil Moisture: Soil moisture turns out to be an important player in all kinds of global processes and politics. I developed a remote sensing trick to measure it.

National Park Service Climate Monitoring Network: I led the initial stages of developing a network of weather station in Arctic Alaska for long-term climate monitoring.

Tundra ponds literature review: I read about 200 papers that might relate to the dynamics of pumping water from lakes in Arctic Alaska for the purpose of making ice roads, then give some review and ranking to their relevance.

Kuparuk River Watershed Hydrology: I acquired a new digital elevation model of this large arctic river basin and performed some basic hydrological analyses.

3D Terrain Visualization: I created a variety of terrain visualizations for most of my projects, both for scientific and outreach purposes.

TopoFlow: I initiated the idea and funding for a new spatially-distributed arctic hydrological model, but was not that active in the coding phases.

Ice streams: I investigated the basal conditions of several ice streams in west Antarctica using seismic techniques.

Black Rapids Glacier: My PhD research was investigating the basal dynamics of Black Rapids Glacier using seismic techniques.