Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 - Saturday, March 1st, 2025
at Col du Lautaret
The Snow Science Winter School aims at teaching modern techniques of snow microstructure characterization to graduate and post-graduate scientists. The training consists of combining theoretical lessons in the classroom and field practice in small groups of 3-4 students, with focus on some of the more modern measurement methods (high-resolution penetrometry, optical instruments for specific surface area of snow, X-ray tomography, etc.). In addition to knowledge, the school aims at training critical thinking by analyzing, comparing, and discussing the collected data from measurements and other inputs that could be provided (models data, satellite data for example). The Snow School program will follow closely the well-established schedule of lectures in the morning, field experiments in the afternoon and data analysis in the evening.