Skiers and  Snowboarders at Brundage Mountain Resort may not know it, but they benefited from more accurate snow reports and improved on-mountain contitions this season, thanks to a new high-tech weather station installed in pertnership with Boise State University.

The new scientific-grade weather station, which came fully online for the 2024/2025 season, is located near the top terminal of the lakeview lift... (Click here to continue reading on Brundage News & Mountain Blog)

Every winter, thousands of Idahoans wake up and check the snow levels at Bogus Basin. The ski resort, located 20 miles from downtown Boise, regularly posts photos of its snow marker, an upright measuring stick on top of a small platform. Every evening, staff come out and brush the platform clean so the tally can begin anew.  (Click here to continue reading on Boise State News)

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. 

Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. (Click here to continue reading in the Whitehouse Archives)

ISSW is a melting pot and a meeting place where scientist and practitioners meet. In this talk we discuss how science transform into practise. Grant Statham works for parks Canada and is in may ways the founding father of the modern avalanche warning service. In the studio we also have HP Marshall from Boisie state university. He is an associate professor and use a range of methods to try to understand the physics of snow.  (click here to listen on skredpodden). 

BSU media students Elijah Zeller and Alton Dills tag along with CryoGARS in the lab and in the field to document their purpose and data. Interviewees HP Marshall, Ellyn Enderlyn, Ibrahim Alabi, and Coleman Kane discuss what CryoGARS is all about and how their personal journeys have lead them to spend their time studying the Cryosphere. Click here for the full 3 part series.

Imagine young students bundling up in winter clothing, strapping on snowshoes, and trekking to a site with thick snowpack where a volunteer instructor cuts out a refrigerator-sized block of snow. If the block stays coherent, the instructor asks the kids to jump on it until it fails, making them tumble into a flurry of snow. Together, the teacher and students measure the density and dimensions of the snow block to calculate its weight, which can be nearly as heavy as a car. By experiencing this mini avalanche, the students might begin to fathom what a real one might feel like. (click here to continue reading on EOS). 

A new tool from Boise State University researchers, alongside an Alaska team, could help protect arctic communities as they deal with changing landscapes and inform future policy decisions on climate change in the coming decades...(click here to continue reading on the Idaho Statesman).

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Snow scientists from NASA and Boise State University were up on the Grand Mesa testing new radar technology to monitor snow cover Thursday, which is a part of NASA's SnowEx campaign. According to NASA, "No single satellite-borne sensor has been demonstrated to accurately measure all of the planet's snow water equivalent." The team of snow scientists gathered on the Grand Mesa from their base of operations, the Grand Mesa Lodge, to work with aircraft... (click here to continue reading on KKCO News).

What do salmon, hydroelectric power, and agriculture have in common? They all depend on snowmelt. So do floods and wildfires. "We are seeing more fires because the snow is melting earlier," says Ana Barrow, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recalling how swaths of the US were shrouded in smoke from the record fires in Canada this past summer... (click here to continue reading on Physics Today).

A big congratulations to graduate students Jukes Liu, Greg Shafer, and Karina Zikan, for receiving College of Arts and Sciences awards for their Graduate Student Showcase presentations. Jukes was awarded the Top Honor for her poster titled “Ice flow acceleration during glacier surges in the St. Elias mountain range”. Greg and Karina both won Dean’s awards... (click here to continue reading on Boise State website).

Hans Peter (HP) Marshall, an associate professor of geosciences, recently received $1 million from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory to advance snow monitoring using optical, microwave, acoustic, and seismic techniques... (click here to continue reading on Boise State website).

Chris McCaslin, a PhD student in the Department of Geosciences under advisors, Dylan Mikesell and HP Marshall accepted a Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) fellowship... (click here to continue reading on Boise State website).

Geoscience faculty HP Marshall, Jeff Johnson and doctoral student Naheem Adebisi recently made national news for their Cryosphere Geophysics and Remote Sensing research... (click here to continue reading on the Boise State website). 

Doctoral geophysics student Zach Keskinen deployed specialized microphones near Stanley, Idaho to understand how sensors buried in the snowpack affect the character of recorded sounds... (click here to continue reading on the Boise State website).