Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies

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Our Mission

The Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies enhances the interdisciplinary investigation of the snow system's behavior and role in human/environment relationships by offering resources -- people, information, and facilities -- for field-based research and education.

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     • Winter 2009/2010 Summary and Metadata Available
     •  International snow & ice scientists convene in Silverton
     • CSAS work featured on PBS Series, This American Land
     • Nineth dust event of the season hits the Colorado Rockies
     •  Skiing Magazine article in Feb/March issue
     • Satellite overflight brings gaggle of scientists
     • National Science Foundation praises CSAS Research!
     • CSAS receives "Give Back Grant" - Mountain Hardwear & Montrail
     • Sequence of January 2010 Storms Shut In Silverton
     • Eric Kuhn and Jeff Deems Join the CSAS Board of Directors
     • CSAS Hosts University of Colorado Field Camp
     • CSAS Installs New Snow Albedo Monitoring Tower at Grand Mesa
     • Dust the Theme of a Regional Water Meeting
     • Senator Beck Basin Plant Community Inventory Repeated
     • Armstrongs Begin Curation of the Ed LaChapelle Library
     • CSAS Moves into Highlander Building
More CSAS News:  '08/'09 | '07/'08 | '06/'07 | '05/'06 | '04/'05 | '03/'04 | '02/'03

2009-2010 Summary
(as of Feb 1, 2010)

Friends of CSAS often ask, given our focus on snow, what we do in the summer.  As it happens, summer and fall of 2009 were among the most hectic periods in our entire history!  First, we moved our Silverton operation across town, considerably downsizing our facility.  There was considerable travel involved in reporting our spring 2009 Colorado Dust-on-Snow activities at some twelve different meetings of stakeholders, throughout the Western Slope.  Betsy and Richard Armstrong began the curation of the Dr. Edward R. LaChapelle’s personal snow and ice library, here in Silverton.  We repeated our 2004 inventory of the Senator Beck Basin plant community.  We performed routine summer instrumentation maintenance chores in Senator Beck Basin.  And, we obtained permitting for and then designed and built an entirely new snow albedo monitoring tower on the Grand Mesa, near Grand Junction, Colorado.  CODOS outreach continued into the early winter, at stakeholder and agency meetings, two new additions to our board of directors were recruited, and university classes took advantage of the particularly interesting and unstable snowpack early in the New Year.