RICHARD R FORSTER, PHD portrait
  • Associate Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social & Behav Science-Dean
  • Professor, Geography Department
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Research Summary

My research primarily focuses on using remote sensing data to derive information about snow and ice conditions at the Earth's surface. More specifically I study glaciers, ice sheets, and seasonal snow cover response to climate change. This work is geographically focused on Alaska, Greenland, High Mountain Asia, and the Intermountain West. The data sets I use most frequently are based on microwave remote sensing, especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR (InSAR).