Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies

Swamp Angel Study Site
Swamp Angel Study Plot (subalpine)

Senator Beck Study Site
Senator Beck Study Plot (alpine)

Putney Study Site
Putney Study Plot (summit)

Senator Beck Basin Stream Gauge
Basin Stream Gauge

St Paul Basestation
St. Paul RF Base Station

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Snow and ClimateCSAS News: June 2008

CSAS's Senator Beck Study Plot Featured on Cover of New Book

We're flattered that a photograph of our Senator Beck Study Plot instrument mast was chosen for the cover of a new book edited by Richard Armstrong and Eric Brun titled: Snow and Climate: Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modeling, published by Cambridge University Press.  Richard Armstrong spent several years working here in Silverton and within shouting distance of the Senator Beck Basin Study area during the San Juan Avalanche Project conducted by INSTAAR, in the 1970's, and is now a Senior Research Scientist at the World Data Center for Glaciology and at CIRES - University of Colorado.  His co-editor, Eric Brun, is Head of Research at Meteo France.