Fwd: NASA SWGR Snow School

Dear APECS Canada

Below is a field school opportunity!

Cheers,

-- 
Ann Balasubramaniam
PhD Candidate
Water Lab
University of Waterloo

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NASA Snow Working Group - Remote Sensing (SWGR) is seeking applicants for the inaugural winter school for field snowpack measurements. The field school will take place January 7-9 at the Fraser Experimental Forest in Fraser, Colorado. Applications are open to anyone involved in university or agency research related to the cryosphere, where snow measurements are made as part of a research program, or where an understanding of snowpack properties and measurements will increase his/her ability to effectively move cryospheric science forward. This course is not aimed at people who are already well versed in snowpack measurements. Applications must be received by December 2, 2013.

http://nasasnowremotesensing.gi.alaska.edu/content/winter-school-field-snowpack-measurements

"Snowpack properties are needed for hydrological models, ground truth for remotely sensed data, ecological models, avalanche forecasting, and a wide variety of other applications. There are two important user groups that are dependent on both high-quality measurements and an understanding of what those measurements actually mean and represent in the real world. Practitioners often collect and use field data for their own purposes. Modelers and remote sensers often obtain the snowpack data from field practitioners or other researchers, but have little knowledge of meaning or richness of the data they are using beyond the basics (e.g. snow depth, mean density, etc.). The course is aimed at teaching skills to practitioners and modelers to increase the quality of the results for all snow data users. The course will introduce students to standard and specialized, quantitative and qualitative, methods of characterizing the snowpack."

Joshua M.L. King, PhD Candidate

Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3)
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
Tel.: 519-888-4567 ex. 36755