[HN Gopher] Citizen scientist has measured Rockies snowfall for ...
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Citizen scientist has measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years
Author : dev_tty01
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-04-06 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| earthscienceman wrote:
| Not every day a personally relevant story shows up. I've done
| work in that valley and with Billy. He's a special person and
| that valley is a special place. For many reasons. RMBL and Billy
| together are a beacon showing that science-for-the-sake-of-
| science can have long echoing impacts.
|
| I think my favorite part about that place is that there is a
| vague tradition for scientists to turn over monitoring
| gear/sensors to Billy. And his house has become a improvised
| monitoring station much more than the manual measurements he
| makes every day.
|
| RMBL and Gothic should serve as a prototype for what I wish every
| ecosystem had. It's deeply integrated with education of students,
| it allows and educated visitors, and the observations there will
| continue to serve the scientific community. I wish there was a
| network of things.
| hammock wrote:
| Is there a chart? I didn't see one in the article
| eclipticplane wrote:
| His data is on https://www.gothicwx.org
| hammock wrote:
| Interesting that the SWE (snow water equivalent, the "water
| content") does not trend nearly as severely as the snow
| inches over the 50 years. It seems for one reason or another
| the density of the snow has trended higher over the years
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