Snow and Avalanches
Snow and Avalanches
Mountain snowpack is important in providing spring melt water to down-slope ecosystems. However, snowpack can also threaten humans and ecosystems when destructive avalanches are triggered. The Ecosystems Land Change Science Program is investigating avalanche frequency and magnitude and assessing climatic and human drivers of avalanches to improve public safety and mitigate impacts to society.
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Reconstructing Ancient Human and Ecosystem Responses to Holocene Climate Conditions
This research project will reconstruct Holocene climatic conditions to better understand human adaptation and response to past environmental variability.
Snow and Avalanche Research
Snow scientists with the USGS are unraveling specific weather, climate, and snowpack factors that contribute to large magnitude avalanches in an effort to understand these events as both a hazard and a landscape–level disturbance. The Snow and Avalanche Project (SNAP) advances our understanding of avalanche-climate interactions and wet snow avalanches, and improves public safety through innovative...