December 15th, 2011

My colleague Danielle Perrot has launched a snazzy new blog for our snow albedo project entitled "Effects of forest litter and aeolian dust deposition on forest snow surface albedo". Sign up to the newsfeed to get updates on albedo fieldwork.

December 3rd, 2011

For the many people who will not be at the AGU Fall Meeting this coming week, here is a PDF copy of my poster concerning stand-scale canopy snow interception following bark beetle infestation.

October 18th, 2011

I will be giving a presentation on the impacts of tree death on snow accumulation and melt at the Utah Bark Beetles and Watersheds Workshop on December 1st, 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT. Click here for more information.

I will also be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco on December 7th, 2011.

June 8th, 2011

My research article entitled "The impact of pine beetle infestation on snow accumulation and melt in the headwaters of the Colorado River" was published online today in the journal Ecohydrology. You can read a press release about it here. Our general conclusions are that while needle canopies remain on dead trees, dead tree stands do not accumulate additional subcanopy snow. However, once the canopy has been removed from the dead trees, dead stands may accumulate ~20% more snow than living stands. Snow under dead stands with and without canopy melted more quickly than snow under living stands.