Dr. HP Marshall's Research

Image text: Dr. HP Marshall on a field day taking data for NASA's SnowEx Mission

Hans-Peter (HP) Marshall is an professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface (CGISS), at Boise State University, and an expert consultant for the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. HP is a snow scientist and glaciologist who uses geophysics and engineering tools to study the Cryosphere. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Washington (1999), with a minor in Geophysics, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2005). He was a visiting Ph.D. student for one winter at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (2004), and recently received the 2010 AGU Cryosphere Focus Group’s Young Investigator Award. His current research is focused on spatial variability in snow and its effect on remote sensing, snow hydrology, and snow avalanches.