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Title: DECISION-MAKING UNDER CONSTRAINT: HOW SAR TEAMS NAVIGATE AVALANCHE TERRAIN WHEN DESTINATION AND TIMING ARE FIXED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brad Hefta-Gaub, Erik Olson, Jim Hirshfield
Description: Search and Rescue (SAR) teams often operate in avalanche terrain under conditions fundamentally different from those assumed by standard recreational ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.1.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche terrain, decision making, human factors, operational constraints, avalanche education
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Title: DRONES IN THE MOUNTAINS: THE JASPER VISITOR SAFETY REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (RPAS) PROGRAM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Darren Farley
Description: Jasper Visitor Safety is responsible for avalanche forecasting, avalanche control, and search and rescue (SAR) across Jasper National Park, an approxi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.2.pdf
Keywords: rpas, uav, drone, avalanche control, search and rescue, jasper national park
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Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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Title: FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES OF AVALANCHE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - 1950 TO 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ethan Greene, Spencer Logan, Joe Obad, Brendan Martland, Bruce Jamieson
Description: People working in avalanche safety are exposed to significant hazards at work. Despite the potential for harm, fatal workplace accidents involving ava...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.5.pdf
Keywords: worker safety, risk management, fatal occupational injuries, avalanche accidents
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Title: OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION AMONGST WORKERS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO CULTURE CHANGE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Johanna Kelly
Description: The Snowbird Snow Safety team has identified a need to better communicate the avalanche risk analysis process to ski patrollers on the front line. Rec...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.6.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, operational risk band, culture change, risk acceptance
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Title: MEASURING CUMULATIVE AND LOW-LEVEL BLAST OVERPRESSURE EXPOSURE OF AVALANCHE WORKERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Allie Fredbo, Amanda Geisler, Ken Thompson
Description: Avalanche workers operate in complex environments with numerous hazards. One risk is exposure to blast overpressure (BOP) from explosive events. Explo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.7.pdf
Keywords: worker safety, explosives, blast overpressure, cumulative low-level blast
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Title: TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED AVALANCHE THALWEG ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AND COMPARE AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Felix Oesterle, John Sykes, Alberto Mariani, Declan Knies, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: To reduce complexity of avalanche simulation outputs in three-dimensional terrain, individual avalanches can be represented by thalwegs. A thalweg des...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche size, avalanche mobility, automated model chain
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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR SKI TOURING IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peder Undheim, Jan Ketil Rød, Håvard B. Toft
Description: An increasing number of Norwegians engage in ski touring in winter mountains. With growing traffic in avalanche terrain, there is a need for tools tha...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.2.pdf
Keywords: routefinding, gis, terrain, ski touring, decision making
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Title: AVALANCHE SCENARIO MAPS: FROM TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION TO DECISION SUPPORT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christoph Hesselbach, Jakob Schwarz, Paula Spannring, Anna Wirbel, Andreas Huber, Michael Winkler, Christoph Mitterer, Harald Riedl, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning requires spatially explicit estimates of where avalanches may release, how they may propagate, and what size they may ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche scenario maps, site-specific avalanche warning, avalanche size, avalanche simulation, decision support
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Title: THE ROLE OF SLOPE ANGLE IN SKIER-TRIGGERED SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Alec van Herwijnen, Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam
Description: Slope angle is a key factor in dry-slab avalanche formation and central to avalanche education and terrain assessment. Combined with the avalanche dan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.4.pdf
Keywords: slope angle, slab avalanche release, failure initiation, crack propagation, friction, skier triggering
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Title: FROM AWARENESS TO APPLICATION: TEN YEARS OF CONSUMER-FACING ATES IN THE UNITED STATES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andy Sovick
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) was designed as a communication tool to convey terrain complexity to backcountry recreationists through co...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale, autoates, risk communication, terrain visualization, consumer behavior, backcountry recreation
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Title: BACKCOUNTRY TERRAIN USE PATTERNS UNDER VARYING AVALANCHE FORECAST CONDITIONS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: INSIGHTS FROM STRAVA ACTIVITY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marc Pons, Colin Bergeron, Julie Heinrichs
Description: Understanding how backcountry recreationists adjust their terrain choices in response to avalanche hazard remains a key gap in avalanche risk research...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain selection, backcountry users, avalanche problems, mountain parks, crowdsourced recreation data, user-generated content
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Title: CHARACTERIZING DIFFERENCES AMONG AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING APPROACHES: A MULTI-INSTITUTION COMPARISON AT ROGERS PASS, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Stephan Harvey, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Kalin Markov, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Automated avalanche terrain mapping has become an established approach for communicating avalanche terrain exposure to public and professional backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.7.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), runout simulation, model comparison
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Title: INTERSECTIONAL RISK: AN EXPANDED DEFINITION OF RISK FOR THE AVALANCHE AND GUIDING PROFESSION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Rachel D. Reimer
Description: The Rise Study is a feminist appreciative Action Research project that utilized in-depth interviews amongst 17 mountain guides and avalanche professio...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.1.pdf
Keywords: risk, psychological safety, human factors, intersectional feminism, climate change.
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Title: THE HUMAN FACTOR: EVERYONE'S PRIORITY, NOBODY'S CURRICULUM. INSIGHTS FROM AN ISSW 2024 WORKSHOP
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Richard Fjellaksel, Tarjei Tveito Skille, Tim Dassler, Audun Hetland, Ian McCammon, Tove Dahl
Description: Human factors are widely recognized as central to most avalanche accidents, and avalanche educators can access more content about them than ever befor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.2.pdf
Keywords: human factors, avalanche education, experiential learning, teaching strategies, learning outcomes, instructor development
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