The Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies serves the mountain science community and regional resource managers by hosting & conducting interdisciplinary research and conducting integrative 24/7/365 monitoring that captures weather, snowpack, radiation, soils, plant community and hydrologic signals of regional climate trends.
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Northern Arizona University Professor Lee Dexter and his student setting up a radiation instrument array behind the Miners Hospital, in Silverton, with an avalanche path on Kendall Mountain in the distance.
Northern Arizona University and Minnesota State University students performing a 'mass' snowpit on Feb. 17, 2003, near Silverton, with the historic Lackawanna Mill in the background.