Frank Witmer

Post Doctoral Researcher of Computer Science - Anchorage, Alaska, United States The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Department of Computer Science and Engineering is accepting applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the area of remote sensing and data science. The candida...

UAA Computer Science is hiring a Post Doc with expertise in remote sensing and data science:
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...

14.02.2026 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anchorage snow depth plot from 1952-2026.

Anchorage snow depth started out similar to last winter, but then diverged sharply in January, putting us close to a record daily depth last week. @climatologist49.bsky.social

03.02.2026 06:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

MWOS Panorama - Montis Corporation

That link didn't load an image for me. This one worked for me:
pano.montiscorp.com?whittier-har...

17.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@nilsweidmann.bsky.social

22.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After today's weather, I declare this fake news.

18.08.2025 06:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Detecting aquatic plant transmission on floatplanes using computer vision - Biological Invasions Floatplanes are a staple mode of transportation in remote places around the world including Alaska. Their rudders are a known vector for transmitting aquatic vegetation such as Elodea spp. between wat...

New research with Pat Pragman and Toby Schwoerer uses computer vision to automatically detect entangled vegetation on floatplane rudders -- goal of preventing transmission of invasive aquatic species such as 𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑎. doi.org/10.1007/s105....

23.06.2025 18:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice photo! 1955-56 had some deep snow depths in Anchorage...

17.02.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Evaluating war-induced damage to agricultural land in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 using PlanetScope and SkySat imagery The ongoing 2023 Israel-Hamas War has severe and far-reaching consequences for the people, economy, food security, and environment. The immediate impa…

Impressive new research documenting the destruction of agricultural land in Gaza: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @he-yin.bsky.social

13.02.2025 19:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of the 15 winters with <= 4" of snow depth on Jan 15, only a couple of them managed to bounce back to above average levels. Not inspiring, though perhaps a pretty good chance of at least increasing the snow pack a bit in Feb. @climatologist49.bsky.social @alaskawx.bsky.social

17.01.2025 20:44 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, this is grim. Not good to be tied with the 2015-16 snow depth. [Side note: there appears to be a gremlin in the ACIS system that ate the Nov 2023 data.]

15.01.2025 23:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This reminds me of the snowmachine in this short film from 1968. The film was made for a German TV show that chronicled life of average Americans (this particular episode featured my uncle). The snowmachine appears early in the clip, at time 2:40:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dib0...

06.01.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0