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In her lecture on the geography of rivers, Dr. Laituri showed us examples of two rivers:
the Colorado and the Danube. These rivers are typical of many rivers in that their headwaters
are located in mountainous areas—the Rocky Mountains and the Alps in these particular
cases. In such mountainous terrain, snow and snowmelt are important components of the hydrologic
regime. To understand and predict the flow characteristics of these snowmelt dominated
rivers, it is important to have a basic understanding of snow and its influence on hydrology.
Dr. Steven Fassnacht, snow hydrologist in CSU's Warner College of Natural Resources,
describes how snow accumulates, how it occurs, the changes it undergoes, how it melts, in
his upcoming lecture on snow and snow hydrology.