Book excerpt: This report comprises the abstracts of all papers presented at a special four-day conference on snow hydrology held in Vermont, U.S.A., 6-9 October 1998. The purpose of this conference was to provide a forum for sharing new knowledge on snow-cover properties and processes, chemical processes in the seasonal snow cover, biotic interactions with the seasonal snow cover, distributed snowmelt models, and scaling problems in snow hydrology To encourage exchange between disciplines, papers were sought that addressed the relation between processes-physical, chemical, and biological-and the integration and distribution of these processes over different spatial and temporal scales.