Workshops

Spring Workshop 2025

We invite you to join our second virtual AvaCollabra Spring Workshop on May 21 and 22, 2025 from 07:00 to 10:00 MDT / 15:00 to 18:00 CEST. Each day will focus on a specific topic:

May 21 – Validation: Best practices for model validation, including data requirements, spatial scale challenges, and research versus operational applications. The goal is to compile ideas for a best practice publication.
May 22 – Wind slabs: A known issue with operational snowpack models is forecasting wind slab problems. We will start with forecasters presenting challenges where modeling could help, followed by model experts discussing how wind transport is currently handled in models. We hope this discussion will reveal possible ways to tackle this challenge.

Be advised the workshop will cover both high-level concepts relevant to any forecaster as well as some technical discussions targeted for researchers and developers.

Anyone interested is welcome to join the workshop each day via Teams: Teams Meeting Link.

ISSW 2024

ISSW workshop with breakout groups on operational use cases, wind, validation, and parsers: September 28, 2024.

Spring Workshop 2024

Virtual workshop with status updated groups into one day on inputs and another on outputs.

ISSW 2023

Our kickoff meeting on a patio after a squirrel took out the power in Bend, OR.