Next FHWA Road Weather Webinar on January 7

The Federal Highway Administration, in partnership with the National Operations Center of Excellence or NOCoE, will hold its next Road Weather Spotlight Series webinar on January 7, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET. Click here to register.

[Above image by the Colorado DOT]

Themed “Avalanche Forecast, Mitigation, and Research,”the webinar will feature three state department of transportation winter operations experts: Brian Gorsage and Ethan Greene with the Colorado Department of Transportation, along with Steven Clark from the Utah Department of Transportation.

[Editor’s note: NOCoE is a partnership between the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the Institute for Transportation Engineers, and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, with support from FHWA. The organization also celebrated the 10th anniversary of its formation in January at the 2025 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.]

The webinar will review Colorado’s avalanche mitigation program, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center or CAIC, and

the ongoing Transportation Avalanche Research Pool II, which seeks to improve public and worker safety, improve operational efficiency, improve and develop informational analysis tools, and explore beneficial avalanche technologies and techniques.

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