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CANCELED

As with many things in the past week, we are canceling the 2020 Big Sky GeoCon that was to be held in Missoula in April. You will receive a full refund for your registration fees and workshop fees. If you paid with credit card, the amount will be credited to your credit card. If you paid with a check, we will send your refund in a check format.

I would suggest that you cancel your hotel reservations. The Holiday Inn in Missoula has been very gracious in not charging MAGIP any penalties in light of the current situation.

We know that some of you have put work into presentations, and we want to acknowledge that and thank you. Hang on to it, we will look forward to seeing it at some point in the future.

As far as the workshops, we will send out the presenter’s contact information to those who had signed up for the workshops. The presenters may wish to do those in a different way, but that will be up to them.

Please feel free to contact myself, or any Board member if you do have questions.

I appreciate your patience as we work out any other details and questions that arise.

Be safe, be kind and stay well.

Jenny Connelley
MAGIP President
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Thursday, April 9 • 9:30am - 9:40am
Snowpack

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Snowpack Ablation and Ditch Irrigation in the the Skalkaho Creek Subbasin, Bitterroot Valley, MT

The 2017 Montana Climate Assessment predicts western Montana should expect diminished snowpack totals relevant to historic climatic averages and lower late-season streamflows as a result of earlier spring snowmelt onset. Bitterroot Valley irrigation districts with water originating from the relatively drier and lower elevation Sapphire mountains are likely to be impacted. I will employ a methodology to assess potential snowpack ablation scenarios and relative resistance to climate change based on SWE values derived from Daymet data from 1980 – 2013. Resistance of snowpack to changing climatic conditions will be estimated by [(June 1 SWE/ha)/ (April 1 SWE/ha)]*100 to yield a snowpack resistance metric (% resistance).
Presenters
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Zachary Goodwin

University of Montana
Zach Goodwin is a current graduate student in the Environmental Studies program at the University of Montana. He is also pursuing a certificate in GIS to leverage geospatial data to better inform social science questions and inquiry.

Thursday April 9, 2020 9:30am - 9:40am MDT
Montana Boardroom 200 S Pattee St, Missoula, MT 59802, USA
  Conservation & Natural Resources, lightning talk