How Fading Snowpack Is Reshaping the American West
What's going on with snowpack in the western United States? We dig into it in this video.
Rock glacier video I mentioned: • Rock Glaciers: A Climate-Resilient Water S...
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*Sources*:
Abatzoglou, J. T., & Williams, A. P. (2016). Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences, 113(42), 11770-11775. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/...
Siirila-Woodburn, E. R., Rhoades, A. M., Hatchett, B. J., Huning, L. S., Szinai, J., Tague, C., ... & Kaatz, L. (2021). A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(11), 800-819. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...
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About me:
I'm Scott Hotaling--an Assistant Professor at Utah State University in the Department of Watershed Sciences. My lab studies high mountain ecosystems, including the biodiversity they contain and how they are changing. Learn more about my lab: https://qcnr.usu.edu/research/ccml/
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