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- Title: ARE YOU BEHAVING OUT THERE?: STUDENT REPORTED BEHAVIOR CHANGES AFTER RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN ALASKA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael A. Kerst, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Formal avalanche education has existed in Alaska since 1976. The Alaska Avalanche School (AAS) is the primary provider of this education and serves bo...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, alaska, backcountry behaviors, recreational courses
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- Title: THE LAST FRONTIER OF AVALANCHE SAFETY: PUBLIC INFORMATION, STATE AGENCIES, AND NONPROFITS IN ALASKA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tim Rogers
- Description: For the last fifty years, Alaska has led the United States in cumulative, per capita avalanche deaths, with the second most fatalities and the second ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: alaska, public safety, nonprofit, avalanche centers
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- Title: APPLYING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING TO WILDLIFE ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF DALL'S SHEEP IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Heather K. Thamm, John Sykes, Nicholas L. Fowler, Thomas D. Lohuis, Kyle R. Smith, Erich H. Peitzsch, Todd J. Brinkman, Ophélie H. Couriot
- Description: Avalanche hazard has been studied extensively in the context of human risk, but its role in alpine wildlife ecology remains poorly understood. Long-te...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.36.pdf
- Keywords: alaska, avalanches, avalanche terrain, dall's sheep, hazard mapping, mountain ungulates
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- Title: ALL-WEATHER AVALANCHE MONITORING: RAPID RADAR DEPLOYMENT SUPPORTING DECISION MAKING IN JUNEAU
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: John Bressette, Pat Dryer, Michael Janes, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
- Description: The city center of Juneau, Alaska, lies between the sea and steep mountain terrain, with several neighborhoods located in avalanche runout zones. Duri...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.55.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, urban avalanche hazard, evacuation decision-making, juneau, alaska
- View additional details about ALL-WEATHER AVALANCHE MONITORING: RAPID RADAR DEPLOYMENT SUPPORTING DECISION MAKING IN JUNEAU
- Title: STATEWIDE AVALANCHE HAZARD MODELING ALONG ALASKA'S TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Gabriel J. Wolken, Elizabeth Fischer, Yves Bühler, Marc Christen, Katreen Wikstrom Jones
- Description: Alaska's road and rail network traverses some of the most active and least observed avalanche terrain in North America, creating persistent challenges...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
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- Title: FROM MILITARY OUTPOST TO MAJOR ALPINE RESORT: OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE PATROL AND RESCUE SERVICE IN THE ANDERMATT–SEDRUN–DISENTIS SKI RESORT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Carlo Danioth, Stefanie Cavaletti, Luc Danioth, David Monn, Björn Becker, Matthias Pleyer, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: Over the past two decades, Andermatt has grown from a military-influenced mountain village into one of central Switzerland's most significant winter s...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
- View additional details about FROM MILITARY OUTPOST TO MAJOR ALPINE RESORT: OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE PATROL AND RESCUE SERVICE IN THE ANDERMATT–SEDRUN–DISENTIS SKI RESORT
- Title: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR SIMULATING EFFECTS OF AVALANCHES ON MOUNTAIN GOAT POPULATION DYNAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Kevin S. White, Taal Levi, Eran Hood, Gabriel J. Wolken, Erich H. Peitzsch, Yves Bühler, Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Chris T. Darimont
- Description: Mountain environments with snow avalanche hazard cover about 6% of Earth’s land area and
occur on all continents. Whereas human risks associated wi...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, alaska, mountain goat, oreamnos americanus, population modeling
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- Title: Presence of social media use and smart phone technology among backcountry skiers and snowboarders, Hatcher Pass, Alaska
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Cristian Ortega, Roy Wollgast, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Popularity of backcountry skiing and snowboarding contines to grow in the United States. Simultaneously, there is an increase in both smartphones and ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O18.3.pdf
- Keywords: social media, smart phone, technology, avalanche information, alaska
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- Title: Southcentral Alaska's Crack Problem: a 2015/16 Glide Avalanche Case Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Scott Hilliard, Wendy Wagner, Timothy Glassett, Heather Thamm
- Description: Along the Seward Highway corridor in Southcentral Alaska, the winter of 2015/16 was defined by a profound and active glide avalanche cycle. Persisting...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.01.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, alaska, operational decision-making, message fatigue
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- Title: Photogrammetrically Derived Estimates of Snow Depth Variability in Complex Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Gabriel Wolken, Erin Whorton, Alexander Gould
- Description: Seasonal snow is a key cryospheric variable because of its influence on energy and wa-ter budgets, regional economies, and public safety. Quantitative...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.47.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth, spatial variability, photogrammetry, structure from motion, avalanche, alaska
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- Title: The White Pass and Yukon Route Avalanche Program, Forecasting and Risk Management for a Historical Railroad
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The White Pass and Yukon Route (WPYR) is a narrow gauge railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Considered impossible to build by many w...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.48.pdf
- Keywords: railroad, avalanche program, alaska, yukon
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- Title: The Evolution of the 2014 'Damalanche' Facet Layer in South-Central and SouthEast Alaska
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Donald Sharaf, Michael Janes
- Description: The 2014 mid to late season snowpack in the Eastern Chugach Range of Alaska presented challenges and learning for the heli-ski operations around Thomp...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O3.01.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface faceting, alaska, avalanche forecasting, melt-layer recrystallization.
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- Title: Storm Statistics and Heli-ski Use in the Chugach and Kenai Mountains, Alaska
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Hannah W. Brewster, Eeva Latosuo, Henry Munter
- Description: Heli-skiing operations face a unique challenge in avalanche hazard forecasting in that the areas in which they operate are very large and infrequently...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, alaska, storm cycle, snow climate, historical snow records
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- Title: The Hawaiian Sucker Punch; Forecasting a Wet Slab Cycle In Southcentral Alaska January 2014
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: John Fitzgerald
- Description: Late January 2014 in Alaska brought intense weather that produced an impressive avalanche cycle in many areas around the state. A plume of moisture o...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.09.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, wet slabs, rain on snow, alaska, turnagain pass.
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- Title: Avalanche Risk: Assessment, Preparedness and Tolerance of Backcountry Users in Turnagain Pass, Alaska
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Brian M. Gehring, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Calculations of risk dominate the world of backcountry recreation, yet currently there are no tools to quantitatively characterize risk for individual...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.15.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, risk tolerance, decision making, survey, forecasting, alaska
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