By empowering people of all ages to participate in science in the places they love to play, we help cultivate a deeper awareness of our living planet and a greater appreciation for the conservation of threatened ecosystems. The Living Snow Project is run by Western Washington University and in collaboration with the Desert Research Institute for the Living Snow Sierra. Anyone who is visiting any alpine region around the world can participate using our App, and folks in the US and Canada (currently) can get sampling kits to also collect samples for DNA sequencing.
This project is 100% run by students and volunteers. It has been supported, in part, by Western Washington University grants from The Whatcom Foundation, NASA Nevada EPSCoR (to collaborators at DRI to jumpstart Living Snow in the Sierras), the Mazamas, the American Alpine Club (to R. Mallon), the National Science Foundation through related grants (to R. Kodner), and many generous donations through Western Washington University’s crowdfunding opportunities.
Sign up to volunteer here.
You can contact us at livingsnowproject@gmail.com.
To learn more about snow algae and the Living Snow project, see the talk Dr. Kodner gave at NWAC’s NSAW meeting in 2017: NSAW talk