While thinking back on our work for the project, we came to the decision that we already knew quite a lot about the subject at the beginning, for example, that artificial snow is very expensive and that it will be used more and more as time goes on. What we were not aware of, however, was the impact that artificial snow has on the environment. For example, a meadow is strongly changed by the artificial snow, because much more water melts towards the end of the winter and thus displaces plants that rather prefer the dryness.
Stay tuned for our final contribution!
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Ski-resort team
[Title] The impact of artificial snow and its future
Picture of a ski slope with grass on both sides of it
[Short Intro: Research question] (short audio) How will the use of artificial snow change in the future?
[Relation to the Project - what did you know before and what new treasure of experience did you gain?] We already knew, that the use of artificial snow is rising from year to year, but we did not know how much money one kilometer of an artificial snow ski slope costs.
[Main body]
[Methodology] We researched on the topic and we had an interview with a researcher from the SLF Davos.
[Media Creation] We have a short audio and we are in the final steps of our teaser video.
[Experience, Reflection] We are surprised how natural artificial snow is despite it being artificial.
[Name of the authors] Sedric Kretschmer, Janik Altermatt & Philipp Hitz
[Sources] Facts from our interview
Hello everybody!
We are pleased to announce that we will be conducting an interview with Fabian Wolfsperger from the Davos Snow and Avalanche Research Institute (SLF) next Tuesday, 4 April 2023.
We are looking forward to an exciting exchange and valuable input for our project!
The first words, that came in my mind, when I thought about our project:
Energy consumption of artificial snow, the costs to build an artificial snow producing-system, the water consumption, possible bad effect on the ecosystem
Vision:
In the end of our project, we have done an interview with a worker of the WSL research centre. With that knowledge, we can visualize better, how and in which extent the use of artificial snow will increase in the future.
Since the collaborators in India have no relation to ski resorts, we assume that therefore no one is interested in our project. However, we are still full of motivation and are happy to announce Sedric as our newest team member. If any collaborator is interested in the future, they are always welcome to join us.
This is not a test post :)