This Year's Snowpack and How it Relates to Colorado's Climate Resilience
Join a discussion with practitioners, researchers, and journalists on how this year's snowpack relates to Colorado's water resources, ski industry, and future climate. Panelists include:
Maxwell Evans is a Solutions Architect at Jupiter Intelligence where he works with banks, financial institutions, and Fortune 500s on their physical climate risk. Max joined Jupiter Intelligence with a Master's in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University with a focus on sea level rise risk. Prior to Jupiter, Max worked with other start-ups exploring topics like community level flood resilience and the role of non-profit organizations in economic development.
Elise Schmelzer is the environment reporter at The Denver Post, where she writes about water, climate change, pollution, public lands and wildlife. She joined the Post in 2018 and previously covered criminal justice issues before taking on the environmental beat in 2023. Before moving to Denver, she wrote for the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, the Washington Post and the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Keith Musselman is an assistant professor in Geography at CU Boulder. As a hydrologist, his research evaluates freshwater in seasonally snow-covered environments to explain how water resources develop and respond to changes in natural and managed systems. He works to integrate environmental and climate-change considerations with issues of resource sustainability. Keith's overarching goal is to produce scientific knowledge on water resources that is both actionable and beneficial to a wide range of societal interests.
Page Weil, PE is a Colorado-based water resources engineer who develops decision-support tools that integrate remote sensing, snowpack measurement, and hydrologic forecasting to support water supply planning and operations across the state. His work focuses on turning advanced data sources such as airborne snow observations and watershed models into practical tools that help water managers, agricultural users, and utilities improve reliability and strengthen long-term water security in a changing climate.
Sam Masters leads federal campaign strategy at Protect Our Winters, driving advocacy to protect public lands and advance clean energy while pushing back against fossil fuel development. He manages POW’s Washington, D.C. lobbying efforts and mobilizes the Outdoor State to turn public pressure into real political impact.
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