Dirty Little Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth- Held in Collaboration with Alta's Environmental Center
02/19/2010 - 6:00pm
02/19/2010 - 8:00pm
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF THE GREATEST SNOW ON EARTH
Our Lady of the Snows
6-8pm
FREE
The Alta Environmental Center and ACE presents an insider's look at the Greatest Snow on Earth. University of Utah
professors Jim Steenburgh and Tom Painter examine the real reasons why Utah powder skiing is so incredible and evaluate the threats posed to
Utah snow by climate change and dust and pollution deposition. Given the projections of how quickly winter temperatures and precipitation
are likely to change and how much snowmelt will be enhanced due to dust and soot in the snow, your Wasatch snowpack and its place within
global climate change is more complex than you might think.