CUAHSI Snow Measurement Field School

January 6-9, 2020

CAMEE Ph.D. students YoungHyun Koo and Jullian Williams attended Snow Measurement Field School at the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) Highland Center in Bretton Woods, NH. Topics of study included snow pits and snow layering, tools for measuring depth and snow water equivalent, and ground-based remote sensing systems.

snow field

Snow Pits

snow pit in the field

snow pit in the field

snow pit in the forest

snow pit in the forest

Jullian Williams in snow pit

Jullian Williams in snow pit

Snow Measurement

spectroradiometer

spectroradiometer

laptop screen
snow sample

snow sample collection

radar measurement

radar measurement

Raspberry Pi driven radar

Raspberry Pi driven radar

IRIS driven radar

IRIS driven radar

albedo surface white plate

albedo surface white plate

Federal sampler with scale

Federal sampler with scale

snow measurement

real time measurement

density cutter

density cutter

snow fork

snow fork

Snow Water Equivalent fork

SWE (Snow Water Equivalent) fork

Magnaprobe

Magnaprobe

manual probe with thermometer

manual probe with thermometer

portable thermal camera

portable thermal camera

Remote Sensing

students and Phantom 4 drone

Phantom 4 drone

Group Photos

group photo outside on snow
group picture outside lying in snow