Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies

Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies The Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies (CSAS) is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies enhances the interdisciplinary investigation of the snow system's behavior and role in human/environment relationships by offering resources -- people, information, and facilities ... CSAS and its 720 acre, alpine Senator Beck Basin Study Area (SBB) was established in 2003 to foster new research on mountain snowpack processes and to monitor for and detect

climate-driven and other changes in regional mountain snow systems. SBB is located in a critically wet and cold portion of the Colorado River Basin (CRB) in the western San Juan Mountains, the first major mountain system downwind of the desert Southwest and Colorado Plateau, is well situated to enable monitoring and understanding of Upper CRB warming, drought, changes in precipitation phase, and other emerging processes such as dust-on-snow. Climate change researchers around the world have recognized mountains as a sensitive bellwether of global and regional change, where system responses may be more transparent and perhaps quicker than in lower elevation settings. Four continuously operating monitoring stations, including a stream gauging station, are operated by CSAS at SBB. Year-round automated measurements are complemented by other manual measurements.

Our station cameras located at Senator Beck, Swamp Angel, and Putney, are showing beautiful pictures today. Images have ...
01/25/2026

Our station cameras located at Senator Beck, Swamp Angel, and Putney, are showing beautiful pictures today. Images have been coming thru for a couple months, we pretty much got all the bugs worked out. Check it out:

Tracy visited Silverton and talks about dust-on-snow in Colorado in the Daily Sun-Up podcast, by the Colorado Sun:
05/15/2023

Tracy visited Silverton and talks about dust-on-snow in Colorado in the Daily Sun-Up podcast, by the Colorado Sun:

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02/23/2023

Power is back up, so are the stations. Putney hit 106 mph at 10 am. Had 4 hours in the 90's today.

Join us this Tuesday, Feb 7, 2023 for a free workshop. Attend in person here in Silverton, or remotely via Zoom. See det...
02/01/2023

Join us this Tuesday, Feb 7, 2023 for a free workshop. Attend in person here in Silverton, or remotely via Zoom. See details on our website:

Snow Research Meets Water Resources Operations in the San Juans: Current State and Future Collaborations  is a workshop hosted by the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies (CSAS) and Colorado State University (CSU) in Silverton Colorado on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, from 9-5, and via Zoom. The w...

Still a few spaces left in our field class "Snow School for Water Professionals". Feb 8-10 in Silverton and Red Mt Pass....
12/29/2022

Still a few spaces left in our field class "Snow School for Water Professionals". Feb 8-10 in Silverton and Red Mt Pass.

Snow School for Water Professionals is attended by people from organizations such as Bureau of Reclamation, CWCB, Denver Water, Desert Research Institute, and various Water Districts.

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12/05/2022

Please consider donating to our efficient and productive non-profit. Your contribution means the world to us.

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Today the Colorado Sun ran an article about the microplastics we found in our dust-on-snow samples going back to 2011 ac...
07/31/2022

Today the Colorado Sun ran an article about the microplastics we found in our dust-on-snow samples going back to 2011 across the Colorado Mts:

A study alerts scientists and water agencies that microplastics have blown around the globe and are permeating the high country and runoff.

Spent the day with Colorado Mt College and Yampa Valley Sustainability Council discussing building a team of dust-on-sno...
05/24/2022

Spent the day with Colorado Mt College and Yampa Valley Sustainability Council discussing building a team of dust-on-snow observers.

Many people in the Yampa Valley make important decisions about everything from recreation to business plans based on the numbers for rain and snowfall, snow pack, cubic feet per second, wind speeds and temperatures.

Epic dust year. No rest until the snow is all gone, which is going fast.
05/04/2022

Epic dust year. No rest until the snow is all gone, which is going fast.

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