| Founder & President Austin Kovacs is nationally
and internationally recognized for his research at the U.S. Army
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Before
joining CRREL, he worked as an arctic engineer on the Alaska and
Canadian Distant Early Warning Line for ITT Federal Electric Co. His
research at CRREL included studies of footing and pile foundations
on snow and ice, anchorages in snow and frozen ground, concepts
of resonant pile driving and coring, compressed gas blasting, concepts
for the testing of frozen materials, mechanical properties of ice,
sea ice dynamics and morphology, geophysical and electromagnetic
studies of snow and ice. These pursuits resulted in extensive
field research in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Antarctica. |