Each January, we head to the mountains with 25 students to teach the annual Snow Science course! Over nine days, the course provides insight into the highly interdisciplinary field of snow science, which is situated at the interface of chemistry, materials science, physics, mechanics, and climate science. We cover a range of topics including an introduction to the global cryosphere, the energetics and kinetics of snow grain metamorphism, snowpack dynamics and their impacts on stability, fracture mechanics, and avalanche characteristics.
