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`} <br /> Non-Reimbursable Application-CWCB Construction Fund <br /> Form Revised August 2004 <br /> • <br /> 3. Provide a brief description of your organization below: <br /> The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies(CSAS)took formal shape on January 31st, 2003, filing <br /> Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Colorado. The Incorporators were Chris George <br /> and Chris Landry, and the original Board of Directors were Don Bachman, Chris George, and Arthur <br /> (Boots)Ferguson. Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) status,as a not-for-profit research and education <br /> organization, was obtained in September,2003.The website for the Center for Snow and Avalanche <br /> Studies at www.snowstudies.org contains additional information about the organization. <br /> irPart B.-Description of the Project or Study <br /> 1. Name of the study or project: Colorado Dust on Snow Program(CODOS) <br /> 2. What is the purpose of this grant application? Check one. <br /> XX Study <br /> Demonstration project. CSAS seeks to develop a broad-based dust on snow program serving <br /> Rehabilitation or the full spectrum of Colorado's snowmelt stakeholders with useful <br /> information.The proposed work includes: 1)enhancing the scope and <br /> replacement of existing frequency of dust on snow monitoring,2)enhancing the advisories <br /> Other(Please describe) issued to stakeholders to address impacts on snowmelt timing and <br /> rates,with additional basin by basin detail,and 3)conducting research <br /> activities that enhance the CODOS program for future snowmlet <br /> forecasts. <br /> 3. General location of the study or demonstration project. (Please include county, and approximate distance <br /> and direction from the nearest town): <br /> Funds from this project would be used for statewide benefit,especially in mountain snowpack <br /> areas where dust on snow conditions occur. The information from this project has implications <br /> for both water supply and snowmelt flood forecasting. <br /> 4. Please provide a brief narrative description of the proposed study or demonstration project including <br /> purpose,need, and service area. (Scope of Work attached) <br /> For the past several years,dust from the Colorado Plateau has been widely observed within and on the snowpack <br /> surface at locations throughout Colorado.Yet,until Spring of 2007,snowmelt forecasting programs and Colorado <br /> water managers had neither received data regarding the presence/absence of dust in mountain snowpacks nor made <br /> any attempt to explicitly estimate the effects of dust-on-snow on snowmelt timing,intensity,or duration. <br /> Meanwhile,model simulations of snowmelt in a southwest Colorado alpine catchment for 2005 and 2006 indicate <br /> that dust may reduce snowcover duration by 3 to 5 weeksW.Coincident with that research,following a statewide <br /> dust-on-snow event on February 15,2006,water managers�1 around the State experienced an early and short <br /> snowmelt runoff in Spring 2006.Integrating the `dust factor' into the Colorado water community's understanding • <br /> of snowmelt processes is providing new insights into runoff patterns. <br /> (1)Painter, T.K.et al.,2007.(2)Vandiver,Kuhn, Waage and others. <br /> 2 <br />