John Townend

Snow Avalanche Characteristics Along Milford Road, Aotearoa New Zealand, Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Abstract We repurposed an unlit (“dark”) telecommunication fiber cable running along the Milford Road in Fiordland, Aotearoa New Zealand, into a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) array to monitor snow avalanches during the 2024 austral winter and spring season. Using DAS data, w...