Erik Bard

Erik Bard is the principal investigator in the Skinwalker ranch He specializes in the hightech technology at the ranch headquartersErik Bard career started after he graduated as a physicist from BYU According to Erik Bard Commercial products and IP have come out of his work in electrophotography consumer electronics Xray analytical instruments Xray sources detectors and other components and the development of archival optical data storage the Mdisc He has adapted designed constructed andor coded various tools in service to his work including optical instruments interferometric devices manufacturing equipment multiphysics datalogging devices and laboratory test automation systems He is also currently a partner in a scientific instruments components development company