Steven R. Fassnacht holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is currently a Full Professor of Snow Hydrology with the Watershed Science program at Colorado State University, where he has been since 2002. In October 2022, he was a short-term fellow with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, working with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokohama. In October 2023, he was a Fulbright Global Scholar visiting Professor at Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso Chile. From October 2023 through March 2024, he was a Fulbright Global Scholar visiting Scientist with Instituto Geológico y Minero de España in Granada Spain. His research focuses on improving measurements and model formulation of snowpack properties for enhancing water management. He has been working to integrate social and environmental information, as well as historical literature, with hydrological datasets. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Glacies. He is a past  of the Eastern Snow Conference and the 2008 recipient of the Eastern Snow Conference SnoFoo Award.