Desert Dust Study

Desert dust layers on and in the alpine snowpack at...

Dr. Tom Painter, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, collecting...

This image, taken by the pilot during an AVIRIS sensor flight...

Spectrometry at the Swamp Angel Study Plot on May 18, 2004 during...

Project Principal Investigator Tom Painter performing grain size measurements in a snowpit on April 18th, 2005.

Tom Painter in a deep snowpit in upper Senator Beck Basin on April 20th, 2005.

Co-Investigator Andy Barrett excavating a snowpit at the Swamp Angel Study Plot on April 21st, 2005.

CSAS field assistant Michael Barton putting the final touches on yet another of the dozens of snowpit he had expertly prepared during the spring of 2005.

Ptarmigan in 'mixed' plumage, as seen during another mid-May trip into Senator Beck Basin .

Project team members Jeff Deems and Maureen Cassidy (behind Jeff) as they head into the upper Senator Beck Basin to conduct a long day of snow depth probing on May 18th, 2005.

CSAS's Chris Landry conducting one of the dozens of formal snow profiles performed for the project during the winter and spring of 2004/2005.