Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies
Non-profit OrganizationsColorado, United States2-10 Employees
The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies is a small nonprofit headquartered in Silverton, Colorado. It promotes interdisciplinary exploration of how snow behaves and how it shapes interactions between people and the environment, by providing access to researchers, data, and facilities for fieldwork and education. It serves researchers and educators working in snow science and related disciplines, and it collaborates with regional partners such as water agencies. A notable recent development is the Colorado Dust-on-Snow program, established in December 2018 to monitor the dust-on-snow phenomenon, with three events documented in the following winter. This initiative demonstrates the center's role in linking research with practical applications in water-resource monitoring.