Westminster Expedition: The American West

Late next summer, on August 23rd, while most of the campus is trying to figure out…

Essential Reading on the Incidents at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Meet the Fellows

Same Old Trail

“Where are you going?” Cheryl asks.

Social Science Problems for Snow Science Research

by Russell E. Costa

“Oddities explain it — oddities of terrain and oddities of psychology, although oddities of psychology aren’t usually as odd…

Melting Memories: Disappearing snow in Matanuska Valley and Eagle River, Alaska

StudentVoice Project

This semester, we are trying out a new ongoing project called StudentVoice in an effort to get students directly involved…

Human Factors in Avalanche Accidents

An IMR collaborative research project

Each summer the Institute for Mountain Research supports a number of student/faculty collaborative research projects. We’ll get updates on the research throughout the summer and the year. In one of…

Kolovrat Ridge

It was the kind of day you dream of in the mountains: mid-May, cool in the shade and warm in the sun, with the Soča river (in Italian, Isonzo) snaking through the valley below. Our group — 30 undergraduates, four faculty, our brilliant driver Mario, and my wife Cheryl — clambered out of our chartered…