The NASA Snow Working Group-Remote S ensing offers The 4th Winter Field Course for Snow Measurement
January 5-9, 2017
What: A course for serious students of snow, whether en gaged in modeling, measuring, or teaching about snow. The course will intro duce students to standard and specialized quantitative and qualitative meas urements of snowpack characteristics, as well as how to conduct safe and ef ficient snow field campaigns. Over three full days we will provide fundamen tal training to students in performing and analyzing snow measurements, inc luding depth, density, snow water equivalence, grain size and shape, strati graphy, temperature and hardness. Students completing this course will be a ble to perform high-quality fieldwork as well as design studies requiring s nowpack measurements, including those required during snow remote sensing c alibration and validation campaigns. Class credit will be offered through t he University of Saskatchewan.
W here: Barrier Lake Field Station, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada (abo ut 45 minutes west of Calgary) with field work at Fortress Mountain in the Canadian Rockies (see http://bgs.ucalgary.ca/facilities & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLND5 EhL5w )
When: Janua ry 5 - 9, 2017
Who: Stu
dents:
The course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, pos
t-docs, professionals and senior scientists, modelers and those who do snow
remote sensing that will either need to make snow measurements as part of
their research, or use snowpack data in their research. There are no prereq
uisites, but students will be selected from the pool of applicants based on
applicability to their studies. Successful applicants will be notified by
December 15, 2016. Students from any nation may apply. App
lications are available at http://
iswgr.org/fieldwork2017 and are due by December 1, 2016.
Who: Instructors
Dr. Kelly Elder: US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Dr. Matthew Sturm: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks<
br />Dr. John Pomeroy, Director, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskat
chewan
Dr. Jessica Lundquist, Mountain Hydrology Research, University
of Washington
Dr. Alexandre Langlois, Centre d’applications et de rech
erches en télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke
Dr. Nicholas Kinar,
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
How: NASA funding for the course is pending (and expected in October) and student application/selection will start soon. Stu dents will be reimbursed for travel, food, and lodging enroute the Barrier Lake field station, where lodging and meals will be provided. Travel expens es may include airfare, taxi or bus for airport access, and shuttle from Ca lgary Airport (YYC). Car rental will not be reimbursed. Receipts for all th e above expenses should be kept and information about processing will be pr ovided at the course. Please make every effort to minimize travel costs. Qu estions about rates, fees, and reimbursements should be sent to Cindy Brekk e at NSIDC ( This email ad dress is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
For course information and registr ation, see http://www.iswgr.or g/fieldwork2017 or contact: Dr. Matthew Sturm via email: This email address is being protected fr om spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and ind icate Snow School in the subject line.
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