Edward H. Bair

Edward H. (Ned) Bair received the B.A. degree (magna cum laude) in economics from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in environmental science and management from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2011. He has been a member of the Research Faculty at UC Santa Barbara since 2011. He uses remote sensing and field techniques to study the snowpack. He specializes in snow mapping, energy balance modeling, and avalanche formation in Montane regions. His work spans a range of scales, from a few meters at the plot scale to thousands of square kilometers at the basin and mountain range scale. He has over 50 publications on snow hydrology and snow avalanches. He has worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers and as a Consultant. Dr. Bair is a member of the American Geophysical Union and a Professional Member of the American Avalanche Association and its Research Chair. In 2015, he received the Best Oral Paper Award from the Western Snow Conference.