Richard R. Forster

Richard Forster (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA, in 1984, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in geophysics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1997. He was with Hewlett Packard, San Jose, CA, USA, from 1984 to 1989 before working as a Graduate Research Assistant with the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Kansas, from 1989 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, he was a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, working with synthetic aperture radar data of the Patagonian Icefields. He received the Byrd Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 1996 from the Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, and then became a Senior Research Associate at BPRC in 1998. Since 1999, he has been worked as a Professor of geography with The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, where he has also been serving as the Associate Dean of Research with the College of Social and Behavioral Science, Tucson, AZ, USA, since 2014. His research utilizes microwave remote sensing, especially synthetic aperture radar and interferometric synthetic aperture radar, to derive information about snow and ice conditions at the Earth’s surface.