I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remotely detected avalanche activity.

This summer I'll do some work on data preparation for machine learning for the Norwegian equivalent, which will hopefully turn into a master's project.

I think it's a great industry, because there's lot of interesting tech that's relevant to work with (both SW and HW, mostly radio related stuff, but also infrasound and seismologic detectors), it's so small that you work internationally from the start, and the people working are ranging from mountain guides to database administrators.

[1]: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556