Video: Avalanche Engineers

by Tyler Cohen November 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

“We’re really just trying to understand the fundamental process that causes a slope to fail in an avalanche in the first place,” says Tony Lebaron, a PhD candidate in Applied Mechanics at Montana State University, Bozeman. “No one really knows what happens at a microstructural level.” So at MSU’s subzero lab, Lebaron and David Walters, another PhD candidate, are constructing avalanches in hyper-controlled environments to analyze propagation and microstructure. “In the lab here, we can see everything that happens,” Walters says, “We really see the whole story.” Filmmaker Abby Kent tells their whole story in Avalanche Engineers, a Kickstarter-backed mini documentary on Walter’s and Lebaron’s research.

Avalanche Engineers from Abby Kent on Vimeo.

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