Ned Bair received his B.A. in economics (magna cum laude) from Bowdoin College in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management in 2011 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 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, as a professional ski patroller, a climbing guide, and as a consultant. Dr. Bair is a professional member of the American Avalanche Association and its Research Chair.