Posts by Katreen Wikstrom Jones
What Happened this Winter – Thoughts and Perspective
By: Zach Butler As we transition into spring with temperatures warming and snow melting, it is hard to believe what happened this season in the Western United States. The West saw snow drought conditions with record low snow in many areas. Despite the West seeing low snow conditions, the Eastern United States celebrated a good…
Read More2025 Fall Newsletter
If you’re on a mobile device, click “Download” button below to view newsletter.
Read MoreSnowPilot: An easy way to plot and share snowpit data
By: Doug Chabot, SnowPilot owner and founder I started my career as an avalanche forecaster in the mid-90s when pencil and notebook were the only way to record field data about the snow. This created a significant hurdle to advancing snow science amongst practitioners: the valuable data in all our pit books was lost to…
Read MoreTowards better sea-level forecasting
By: Colin Meyer, CSO Ambassador The world faces a significant risk of sea-level rise of one meter or more this century, driven primarily by the potential collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. This could lead to the displacement of over half a billion people, trillions in infrastructure costs, and the loss of low-lying…
Read MoreIt’s fun to measure snow! A tribute to ambassador Sarah Sallade
CSO ambassador Sarah Sallade goes about her work as a snow scientist a little bit different than some. While trained as a forest ecologist with a focus on carbon cycling she began her dive into participatory science with the GLOBE Observer Program. Celebrating 30 years this year, GLOBE was the original citizen science program that…
Read MoreHoliday Snow Hunt Contest (Dec 15-Jan 15)
We’re kicking off snow season 2024-2025 with a classic data collection contest! Measure snow depth and submit to the Snow Scope app for a chance to win a great prize from Backcountry Access. Where? Undisturbed snow anywhere in the U.S.* When? December 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025 How? Measure full snowpack depth using a…
Read More2024 Fall Newsletter
If you’re on a mobile device, click “Download” button below to view newsletter.
Read MoreFebruary 2024 Snow Observation Challenge in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Maya Shyevitch The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the oldest continuous conservation & mountaineering group in North America, with chapters throughout the Northeast. The AMC has been collecting snow records at Pinkham Notch Visitors Center in Pinkham Notch, NH, since the 1930s. Since the 1990s, that dataset has also included daily snow observations at…
Read MoreJuly 2023 Newsletter
Up-date on mountainsnow.org: Snow depth TODAY!
We understand that you are asking the same questions like us — how deep was the snow yesterday or two days ago? How did it change with the recent storm? What is the snow depth today? Whether you’re new to our snow modeling product mountainsnow.org or already an accustomed user – it has just gotten…
Read More