Canadian Snow Research

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1947
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Canada; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000001192; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000001192

A recent event of great importance has been the inception of officially sponsored snow research in Canada. Hitherto large scale snow research has been almost entirely restricted to the Swiss and it is good to know that the Empire with its enormous opportunities will now be playing its part. The connection between the mechanics of soil and the mechanics of snow has been obvious for several years in Switzerland where the resources of the civil engineering laboratories have been made available for snow research. Dr. R. Haefeli, originally a civil engineer and head of the soil research department of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, has now become one of the foremost authorities on snow and ice. It is satisfactory to learn that this connection of ideas is being followed up in Canada. In England too a start has been made.