News from CSAS
- Dec 31, 2011: Year ended with a gust of 94mph recorded at our Putney ridge top site. Strongest gust since Feb 19, 2011. With that wind, we also received our 3rd dust event of the season.
- Dec 11, 2011: CSAS and Chris Landry in a New York Times article on air quality.
- Nov 30, 2011: Check out 2 new blog posts with info from CSAS: Cool Climate Collaboration from the Colorado Natural Heritage Program and Never Stop Exploring from The North Face and Protect Our Winters.
- Nov 26, 2011: The datalogger at Swamp Angel Study Plot freaked out early Thanksgiving morning, just before winter storm #8. We replaced it and got everything working again on Nov 26th (DOY 330).
- Nov 18, 2011: Our annual fundraising letter is in the mail. The beginning of winter is our meager budget's leanest time of the year. We appreciate those of you who are makings donations and holiday shopping with our "Shop for CSAS" campaign!
- Nov 13, 2011: Storm #6 was the 12-12-12 storm that started and ended on the 13th.
- Oct 27, 2011: We've posted summary graphs to give you a snapshot of 7 years of CSAS data.
- Oct 27, 2011: Check out the data from our 3rd Winter Storm of the season.
- Oct 4-6, 2011: We experienced a wet and windy 1st winter storm of the season. See our Storm Report for the details.
- October 5, 2011: We've posted our Summer 2011 data and metadata. The past 12 months turned out to be our biggest water year yet with 55" of water!
- October 2011: Patagonia used a photo of one of our dust-on-snow "gravimetric" pits for their "Seeing Red" essay in the latest catalog!
- Sept 27, 2011: Our phone line has been repaired and current conditions are now posted. Contact us if you need data from the past week. All data will be posted at the end of the season.
- Sept 21, 2011: our field station phone line has been down since noon Sept 21st. We're still waiting for it to be repaired. Meanwhile data is continuing to be collected as usual and will be posted as soon as the phone line is working again.
- Sept 9, 2011: Fall is underway! The towers at our Senator Beck Basin, Swamp Angel and Putney Study Plots are ready for the snow to fly. On Sept. 9th our upper elevation study plots experienced below freezing temps
for the first time since June.
- June 2011: We've added a new section with a lot of information about our Colorado Dust on Snow (CODOS) program. Check it out!
- June 2011: Winter 2010-2011 data are now available to download from our archival data page.
- May 2011: We've updated our website menu. Current Conditions are now found under the Data heading. You may need to update your bookmarks to hourly/24hr study plot pages.
- March 14, 2011: We've updated our website menu. Current Conditions are now found under the Data heading. You may need to update your bookmarks to hourly/24hr study plot data pages.
- March 2011: Half dozen graduate students from Boise State study the snowpack in Senator Beck Basin with Hans-Peter Marshall.
- Feb 2011: CSAS hosts college courses from three Universities in early 2011.
Dec 2010: Several posters and talks at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union (AGU) feature research supported by CSAS. Check them out!
- Army's CRREL Returns to Senator Beck Basin for "off Snow" LIDAR Survey
- Dust storms implicated in Colorado avalanches
- Summer 2010 Data and Metadata Now Available
- ROBBING THE WEST: CSAS Collaborators find that Dust Reduces Colorado River Flow
New study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2010
- Winter 2009/2010 Data and Metadata Available
- International snow & ice scientists convene in Silverton
- CSAS work featured on PBS Series, This American Land
- Nineth dust event of the season hits the Colorado Rockies
- Skiing Magazine article in Feb/March issue
- Satellite overflight brings gaggle of scientists
- National Science Foundation praises CSAS Research!
- CSAS receives "Give Back Grant" - Mountain Hardwear & Montrail
- Sequence of January 2010 Storms Shut In Silverton
- Eric Kuhn and Jeff Deems Join the CSAS Board of Directors
- CSAS Hosts University of Colorado Field Camp
- CSAS Installs New Snow Albedo Monitoring Tower at Grand Mesa
- Dust the Theme of a Regional Water Meeting
- Senator Beck Basin Plant Community Inventory Repeated
- Armstrongs Begin Curation of the Ed LaChapelle Library
- CSAS Moves into Highlander Building
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