- March 29, 2024: Our paper “Location Dictates Snow Aerodynamic Roughness” was just published in the new journal Glacies (100th refereed journal paper published; first paper in the first issue of a new journal)
- March 25, 2024: Our paper “Integrated Spatial Trend Analysis for Climate Change Assessment Using Station Data and Gridded Climate Normals / Integrierte Räumliche Trendbewertung unter Verwendung von Stationsdaten und gerasterten Klimanormalen” was just published in the new journal Geoöko
- March 20, 2024: Brian Steen successfully defended his M.S. thesis on “Interdaily Temperature Variability in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado.”
- March 11-14, 2024: A successful Snow Hydrology Field Methods course in the Pyrenees (Candanchú and Formigal) co-sponsored by CSIC-IPE
- February 28 to March 1, 2024: Helen Flynn (Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellow at CSIC-IPE), Dr. Jesús Revuelto (CSIC-IPE), Steven R. Fassnacht and work with colleagues from Granada in the Sierra Nevada (Spain) to measure the snowpack. Check out the summary video in English y en Espa&tildan;ol
- February 27, 2024: Steven R. Fassnacht gives a lecture and leads a data analysis exercise with MS students in the RHYMA program at the University of Málaga with the assistance of Helen Flynn (Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellow at CSIC-IPE)
- January 29 to February 2, 2024: Dr. Jessica E. Sanow (now with USGS), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC collaborator Dr. Kazuyoshi Suzuki, and Steven R. Fassnacht travel to Shinjo, Japan to work at the NIED Cryospheric Environment Simulator with snow in the wind tunnel
- January 24, 2024: Steven R. Fassnacht gives a seminar at the JAMSTEC on the Fulbright experience
- January 18, 2024: Steven R. Fassnacht gives a lecture/seminar at the University of Granada
- January 17, 2024: Steven R. Fassnacht and colleagues from Granada travel to the Sierra Nevada (Spain) to test a new field sensor array
- November 16-19, 2023: Helen Flynn (Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellow at CSIC-IPE) and Steven R. Fassnacht attends the Fulbright Spain Mediterranean Research Seminar in Alicante, Spain
- November 4, 2023: Steven R. Fassnacht starts Fulbright in Spain with Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME) in Granada
- October 1, 2023: Steven R. Fassnacht starts Fulbright in Chile with Universidad de Playa Ancha (UPLA) in Valparaíso
- September 29, 2023: Anna Pfohl successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on “Recent and Future Colorado Water: Snow Drought, Streamflow, and Winter Recreation.”
- July 11, 2023: Alex Olsen-Mikitowicz successfully defended his M.S. thesis on “Impact of Dynamic Topography on Snow Distribution Patterns.”
- June 11, 2023: Our paper “Snow Surface Roughness across Spatio-Temporal Scales was just published in Water.
- May 26, 2023: Our paper “Wildfire and climate change amplify knowledge gaps linking mountain source-water systems and agricultural water supply in the western United States“ led by Dr. David M. Barnard was just published in Agricultural Water Management.
- April 27, 2023: The paper by Kampf et al. (2022) was awarded as the Outstanding Publication Award (department) for 2023.
- April 26, 2023: Watershed Science Professor Steven R. Fassnacht was awarded the Harry E. Troxell Distinguished Service to Students Faculty Award for 2023.
- April 14, 2023: Watershed Science Professor Steven R. Fassnacht was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2023-2024 for Fulbright Global Scholar Award.
- March 31, 2023: Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (and Watershed Science minor) undergraduate student Helen Flynn was selected as a Fulbright student scholar.
- March 25, 2023: Our paper “Evaluating Methods of Streamflow Timing to Approximate Snowmelt Contribution in High-Elevation Mountain Watersheds” by Pfohl and Fassnacht is now in print in Hydrology.
- March 21-22, 2023: Alex Olsen-Mikitowicz, Brian Steen, Alexis Foster, Mark Daniels, Helen Flynn, Marin MacDonald, and Shea Slonkosky and Steven Fassnacht presented at the AGU Hydrology Days conference in Fort Collins, Colorado.
- March 6-10, 2023: Dr. Jessica Snow and Steven Fassnacht presented at the ISAR-7 conference in Tokyo, Japan.
- January 30, 2023: Our paper “High resolution SnowModel simulations reveal future elevation dependent snow loss and earlier, flashier surface water input for the Upper Colorado River Basin” is now in print in Earth’s Future.
- January 20, 2023: Our letter “Reply to You and Xu: Delayed wildfires in 2020 promote snowpack melting in the western United States” is now in print in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- December 12-16, 2022: PhD candidate Anna Pfohl, Bachelor’s candidate Helen Flynn, and Bachelor’s candidate Marin MacDonald attended the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago.
- September 29 to October 29, 2022: Success fellowship to Japan supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science working at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology with a week in Shinjo at the Shinjo Cryospheric Environment Laboratory.
- the pandemic causes delays