NASA Community Snow Meeting, August 2024
Agenda

Objectives:
  • Summarize the SnowEx and working group accomplishments
  • Identify/prioritize remaining snow science gaps
  • Bring the larger snow community together
  • Share components of different satellite mission proposals
  • Generate tangible next steps for the Decadal Survey
  • Facilitate collaborations for future work
Day 1
Time (EDT) Title Presenter
Summary and State of the Science/Community Discussion
Moderator: Kate Hale, Jack Tarricone (Virtual), Randall Bonnell (Notes)
08:15AM Welcome, introductions [presentation] Kate Hale
08:30AM NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program [presentation] Jared Entin, Craig Ferguson
08:50AM SnowEx Overview (2017-2023) [presentation] Carrie Vuyovich
09:15AM Questions/ Discussion
Breakout Session for Current Sensing Techniques
Moderator: Jack Tarricone, HP Marshall (Virtual), Mimi Abel (Notes)
09:50AM Introduce breakout session objectives & expecations [presentation]
Jack Tarricone
10:00AM Breakout group discussion time
11:00AM Summarize sensing technique breakout discussions to full group [presentation]
12:00PM LUNCH
Mission Concepts and Ongoing Scientific Projects
Moderator: HP Marshall, Joachim Meyer (Virtual), Aditya Khuller (Notes)
01:00PM Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission, TSMM [presentation] Benoit Montpetit
01:20PM Surface Biology and Geology, SBG [presentation] [recording] Niklas Bohn
01:30PM NISAR [presentation] Shadi Oveisgharan
02:00PM SnoWatch [presentation] Steve Margulis
02:20PM SnowGlobe [presentation] Ana Barros
02:40PM Questions/Discussion
03:00PM Break
03:30PM Poster Session
Moderator: Megan Mason
05:00PM DINNER
Day 2
Time (EDT) Title Presenter
Future of Snow Remote Sensing & Science
Breakout Session for Big Picture Snow Science

Moderator: Joachim Meyer, Noah Molotch (Virtual), Otto Lang (Notes)
08:15AM Announcements, day 1 follow up and introduce breakout session objectives & expectations [presentation]
08:30AM Breakout group discussion time
09:30AM Summarize breakout discussions to full group [presentation]
10:30AM Break
Breakout Session for Near Term Next Steps
Moderator: Noah Molotch, Keith Musselman (Virtual), Hamish Prichard (Notes)
10:50AM Introduce breakout session objectives & expectations [presentation]
11:00AM Breakout group discussion time
12:00PM Summarize breakout discussions to full group [presentation]
01:00PM LUNCH
Community Engagement and Operations
Moderator: Keith Musselman, Carrie Vuyovich (Virtual), Millie Spencer (Notes)
[Intro]
02:00PM NASA distributed active archiving centers & cloud computing [presentation] Joseph Kennedy
02:15PM Open science and community engagement [presentation] Stephanie Wong
02:30PM How can the hackweek model support future snow community collaborations? [presentation] Anthony Arendt
02:45PM SnowSchool update [presentation] McKenzie Skiles
03:00PM Research & Flight Operations of airborne platforms [presentation] Jeff Deems
03:15PM Colorado Airborne Snow Measurement Program (CASM) [presentation] Taylor Winchell
03:30PM River Forecast Center applications [presentation] Joachim Meyer
03:45PM Questions/Discussion
04:00PM Break
04:15PM Final meeting wrap up [presentation] Carrie Vuyovich
05:00PM Group Social
Rayback Collective (2775 Valmont Rd. Boulder, CO)
Posters

Aditya Khuller SNTHERM24: An Improved Snow, Firn, and Glacier Ice Evolution Model for Earth and Mars [poster]  
Adrienne Marshall Climate change impacts on the snow hydrologic cycle in the western U.S. [poster]  
Ally Detre Assessing Liquid Water Content Development Within a Snowpack Compared to Sentinel-1 SAR-Derived Melt Onset Estimates [poster]  
Ally Fitts Analyzing variation in snow albedo across scales of observation in the Alaskan boreal forest [poster]  
Ana Barros Using Multisensor Data to Improve Snow Prediction [poster]  
Anna Grunes Monitoring and Modeling Rain-Snow Dynamics Across an Elevational Gradient in a New England Montane Watershed   [poster]  
Anna Pfohl What resolution snow model is necessary to simulate streamflow timing and volume? [poster]  
Anna Valentine Density Estimates from Snow Penetrometer Probes [poster]  
Bareera Mirza Evaluating the utility of Sentinel-1 snow depth in a data assimilation system [poster]  
Carl Schmitt Measuring Snow albedo, net shortwave radiation, and energy budget across a forest density gradient [poster]  
Catherine Breen Snow Depth Extraction From Time-Lapse Imagery Using a Keypoint Deep Learning Model [poster]  
Christopher Crawford Landsat Next [poster]  
Connor Henley Measurement of Snowpack Density, Grain Size, and Black Carbon Concentration Using Time-Domain Diffuse Optics [poster]  
David Clemens-Sewall Terrestrial and Marine Snow Research in the NOAA PSL Boundary Layer Division [poster]  
Firoz Borah C-band Sentinel 1 Remote Sensing of SWE with Roughness Effects And Snow Wetness [poster]  
Hamish Pritchard Lakes as snowfall sensors: a breakthrough for constraining SWE in satellite and model products [poster]  
Jeremy Barroll Teleconnections and Topography: How the Use of Sea Surface Temperature Data to Predict Snow Water Equivalent Varies within Small Watersheds in the Western US [poster]  
Joe Ammatelli Towards Improved Quantification of Snow Interception: Measuring Tree Sway Frequency With a Video Camera [poster]  
Jordan Herbert Integrating snow station and lidar data with machine learning: A daily, spatially representative snow validation dataset [poster]  
Julien Meloche Estimating the different backscatter contributions with the iterative solution in SMRT [poster]  
Kehan Yang Addressing the largest source of uncertainty in real-time snow modeling: bias correction of HRRR precipitation using in-situ observations [poster]  
Lena Nyblade Fusing airborne lidar snow depth snapshots with a gridded SWE dataset to generate spatially and temporally detailed SWE estimates through time [poster]  
Leung Tsang Radar Remote Sensing of SWE Combining Dual Ku, X, C and L Band [poster]  
Megan Mason NASA SnowEx Snow Pit Measurements (2017-2023) [poster]  
Otto Lang, Patrick Naple Advancing the use of the MODIS dust radiative forcing on snow dataset: Applications to Landsat fustion and snowmelt modeling [poster]  
Randall Bonnell L-band InSAR Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Uncertainty Increases with Forest Cover Fraction [poster]  
Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig Enhancing snow parameterizations in Noah-MP land model [poster]  
Ross Palomaki Assessment of methods for mapping snow albedo from MODIS [poster]  
Ryan Webb Ground Penetrating Radar: Datasets and Applications from SnowEx [poster]  
Samar Minallah CTSM-Hillslope Hydrology model for snow-covered mountainous domains [poster]  
Tzu-Shun Lin Improved snow albedo evolution in Noah-MP land surface model coupled with a physical snowpack radiative transfer scheme [poster]  
Ulyana Pena Participatory Scientist Measurements of Light-Absorbing Particles on Snow [poster]  
Uriel Aviles Ruiz Quantifying the Aspect-dependent Impact of Wildfires on Snow Accumulation and Melt in Northern Colorado [poster]  
William Rudisill Seasonality and Albedo Dependence of Cloud Radiative Forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin [poster]  
Yongxiang Hu Snow Depth From ICESat-2 and AMSR-2 [poster]  
Zachary Fair Using spaceborne lidar for snow depth retrievals: Best practices and recommendations for future studies [poster]  

Logistics

Meeting Location

CU Boulder East Campus
Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) Building
4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303
Room C120 Auditorium

Travel

For meeting attendees traveling by plane, Denver International Airport (DEN) is the closest to Boulder. The RTD AB1 bus provides transit directly from DEN to downtown Boulder every hour. Please see the RTD schedules for local transit to CU East Campus, including the JUMP and BOUND buses. Parking is available outside of the SEEC building.

Lodging

There are many hotels in Boulder and within proximity to the meeting location, including: Hotel Boulderado, Hilton Garden Inn Boulder, Boulder Marriott, Residence Inn Boulder Canyon Boulevard, Hyatt Place Boulder.

Organizing Team

Kate Hale | Meeting PI, Postdoctoral Scholar University of Alaska Fairbanks
Joachim Meyer | Senior Research Scholar | Boise State University
Carrie Vuyovich | Research Physical Scientist | NASA GSFC
Keith Musselman | Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Noah Molotch | Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
HP Marshall | Associate Professor | Boise State University
Jack Tarricone | Postdoctoral Scholar | NASA GSFC / NPP
Megan Mason | Research Scientist | NASA GSFC / SSAI