Community: it’s a word that several of us begin typing into a shared document as our team completes a group exercise to define our core values. It’s also the first word we chose to describe our organization four years ago. The Community Snow Observations program has been an opportunity to build a network of citizen…
The CSO modeling team is completing snowpack simulations for the 2017 water year, arranging multiple simulations for the previous 2018 water year, and ramping up our preparations for the upcoming 2019 winter season. In order to visualize our most recent results, we’ve compiled a video of the snowpack evolution in the Thompson Pass region from…
Written by: Liza Kimberly In the past, I’ve associated the concept of phenology with flowers and trees undergoing seasonal transformations from buds to blooms. However, conducting research on the Easton Glacier the past several months for my Masters thesis has shown me the remarkably striking ways at which mountain-scapes, too, change with the seasons. These…