CSAS-Assisted Scholarly Publications

Painter, T. H., J. Deems, J. Belnap, A. Hamlet, C. C. Landry, and B. Udall (2010), Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in snow, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

Lawrence, C. R., T. H. Painter, C. C. Landry, and J. C. Neff (2010), Contemporary geochemical composition and flux of aeolian dust to the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, United States, J. Geophys. Res., 115, G03007, doi:10.1029/2009JG001077.

Steltzer, H., C, Landry, T. H. Painter, J. Anderson, and E. Ayres. 2009.Biological consequences of earlier snowmelt from desert dust deposition in alpine landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106:  11629-11634, doi_10.1073_pnas.0900758106.

Neff, J.C., A.P. Ballantyne, G.L. Farmer, N.M. Mahowald, J.L. Conroy, C.C. Landry, J.T. Overpeck, T.H. Painter, C.R. Lawrence and R.L. Reynolds. 2008.  Increasing eolian dust deposition in the western United States linked to human activity, Nature Geoscience, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 189-195, March 2008, doi: 10.1038/ngeo136

Painter, T. H.,  A. P. Barrett, C. C. Landry, J. C. Neff, M. P. Cassidy, C. R. Lawrence, K. P. Thatcher, L. Farmer. (2007) Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover. Geophysical Research Letters. V34, 12, L12502, 10.1029/2007GL030208.

Painter, T. H., N. Molotch, M. Cassidy, M. Flanner, and K. Steffen, Contact spectroscopy for the determination of stratigraphy of snow grain size, Journal of Glaciology, 53(180), 121-127.

Student Theses:

• Ann Bryant, PhD, Radiative forcing by desert dust in snowmelt-dominated hydrologic systems from coupled satellite and in situ measurements, Dept of Geography, University of Utah, projected graduation June 2012.
  
  
• Corey P. Lawrence. Aeolian deposition in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, USA: The biogeochemical role of dust in soil development and weathering. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder (PhD, May 2009).
  
  
• Julie A. Crawford. Multi-scale investigations of alpine species of the northern hemisphere. University of Pavia, Italy. (PhD, 2010).
  
  
• S. McKenzie Skiles, MA, Interannual Variability in Radiative Forcing by Desert Dust in Snowcover in the Colorado River Basin, Dept of Geography, University of Utah, projected graduation June 2010.
  
  
• Sarah Castle, M.S. (GEOL). Nutrient cycling in geologically distinct alpine basins in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.  University of Colorado - Boulder,  Geosciences Department. (MS, May 2008).
  
  
• Kathleen McBride. A synoptic climatology of desert dust deposition to the snowpack in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, U.S.A., Department of Geography, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff (MA, December, 2007).
  
  
• Shane Stradling, An investigation of how dust deposition affects snowpack and snow albedo, Swamp Angel Site, San Juan County, CO, Department of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado (BS, May 2007).

More:
CSAS cover article: Know your snow (featured application). Campbell Scientific Update (2010, Vol. 21, Issue 1).

CSAS's Senator Beck Study Plot Featured on Cover of New Book: Snow and Climate: Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modeling by Armstrong and Brun, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

Presentations:

• CSAS Presents Talk on Mountain System Monitoring and Research Synergies at MTNCLIM 2008, held in Silverton June 9-12, 2008.  
• CSAS Presents Dust-on-Snow Talk at Colorado Water Workshop, A Statewide Gathering of Water Managers and Stakeholders (seehttp://www.western.edu/water/ for archive of meeting) (2006/2007).
• CSAS Featured or Plays Supporting Role in Seven Presentations at 2006 International Snow Science Workshop Held in Telluride, Colorado in October and Attended by 700 Participants from Fifteen Nations.
• Mountain Studies Institute Convenes Scientists and Stakeholders to Discuss Variability and Change in San Juan Mountains Climate – CSAS Presents Talk and Hosts Field Tour of Senator Beck Basin Monitoring Facilities (see http://www.mountainstudies.org/admin/articles.asp?id=140 ).
• Talk Presented to the Spring Runoff Conference at Utah State University, in Logan, on April 4, 2007.
• CSAS Presents Poster at American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting in San Francisco on December 13, 2006: Mountain System Monitoring at Senator Beck Basin, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.
• CSAS Presents Dust-on-Snow Talk at Colorado Water Workshop, A Statewide Gathering of Water Managers and Stakeholders (see http://www.western.edu/water/ for archive of meeting) held on July 28, 2006 in Gunnison, CO.
• CSAS Featured or Plays Supporting Role in Seven Presentations at 2006 International Snow Science Workshop Held in Telluride, Colorado in October and Attended by 700 Participants from Fifteen Nations.
• Mountain Studies Institute Convenes Scientists and Stakeholders to Discuss Variability and Change in San Juan Mountains Climate – CSAS Presents Talk and Hosts Field Tour of Senator Beck Basin Monitoring Facilities (see http://www.mountainstudies.org/admin/articles.asp?id=140 ).
  
  
• CSAS co-hosts, with the University of Colorado 's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a Snow System Science Workshop.
  
  
• Shane Stradling Completes and Presents his Dust-On-Snow Research.
  
  
• Presented at the 2004 International Snow Science Workshop Conference held September 19-24, 2004 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to present a poster introducing the CSAS to the avalanche scientists in attendance .
• Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in San Francisco December 13-17, 2004 with a poster titled, "Mountain Snow System Interactions" and featuring our dust on snow pilot study and a discussion of avalanche formation processes interactions.
• Presented at MTNCLIM2005, a conference held in Pray, Montana on March 1-4, 2005 concerning mountain climates and their effects on ecosystems. CSAS presented a poster describing the Senator Beck Basin Study Area research infrastructure and indicated CSAS's interest in the development of a mountain climate monitoring network.
• Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies introduced our Senator Beck Basin Study Area to the Western Snow Conference in Vancouver, BC, April 2003 and our "Mountain Snow System Observation Protocol" concept to the Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium in Lake Tahoe, CA, in May 2004.