2025

June 10: Mark gives invited presentation to the NCAR Snow Affinity Group
June 5: Reilly successfully defends his M.S. Project
June 4: Hannah and Bareera receive awards at the CEOAS Celebration of Student Achievement
May 22: Daniel successfully defends his M.S. Thesis
May 21: Hannah Steele wins the Dr. J.E. Church Best Student Presentation award at the 2025 Western Snow Conference
May 1: first airborne snow survey from Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc. over the Upper McKenzie and Blue River basins (Oregon), a collaboration for our U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project
March 13: Baird successfully defends his undergrad Honors Thesis

2024

September 23: Project led by Mark awarded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Snow Water Supply Forecast Program
June 7: Mark wins the CEOAS Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award
January 5 (aired January 8): CBC (Kelowna, BC, Canada) interview on the slow start to the 2023-2024 winter and snow drought, listen to it here (starting at 1:19:00 to 1:25:45)
January 21: Bareera interviewed with The News Sunday on climate and water issues in Pakistan, “Climate Emergency” read it here

June 9: Mark wins the CEOAS Pattullo Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
May 19: Bareera is featured in CEOAS Chronicles “NASA SnowEX: Science Below Zero Degree C”, read it here
Fall 2023: Bareera is featured in CEOAS Strata “NASA SnowEx: Science below zero”, read it here

December 5: Anna Jensen successfully defends her MS thesis!
September 6: Hannah Steele successfully defends her MS thesis!
June 1: KEZI (Eugene, OR) interview “Water supply issues possible despite high snowpack, expert warns”, read it here
May: CEOAS Strata interview “Watching the Trees”, read it here
May 5: BBC Radio interview about tree sway and canopy snow on “The World Tonight” program, listen to it here (starting at 40:39).
May 5: The Guardian “Colorado conifers given ‘Fitbits’ to measure snow cover”, read it here
May 2: Wired Article “Give Fitbits (of Sorts) to the Trees”, read it here
April 15: AGU EoS Spotlight Article “Trees Wearing Accelerometers Help Track Snowstorms”, read it here
March 29: Ameriflux article “Note from the Flux site: Winter at Niwot Ridge”, read it here
March 15: Utah State Today article “Snowbound: Big Trees Boost Water in Forests by Protecting Snowpack”, read it here