Ed Adams is a widely recognized expert in the field of snow science. It wasn’t always like that. Now a distinguished professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at MSU, Adams tells some of the stories of how he learned the ways of this fascinating, delightful, dangerous, and often surprising state of matter in this Provost’s Lecture. For more of the science of snow, see this lecture by Adams on YouTube.

Recorded at Museum of the Rockies on December 5, 2017.