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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…
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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…
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…
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…