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Title: HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN: A FRAMEWORK FOR PILOT EDUCATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christopher Templeton, Seth Waterfall
Description: Helicopter operations in mountainous winter environments present unique hazards that are often under-addressed in standard mountain flying curricula. ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.48.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, risk management
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Title: MAKING AVALANCHE RESCUE EASIER AND FASTER BY ADDING SATELLITE NETWORKS TO THE EXISTING STANDARD
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Vogt
Description: Avalanche Transceiver search is always very imprecise due to the given technology of the magnetic field which never can give an exact location. Search...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceiver, gps-search, faster
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Title: IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE BULLETINS THROUGH A MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) SERVER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Stanger, Bengt Haunerland, Simon Legner
Description: Timely access to official avalanche bulletins is critical for safe decision-making in avalanche terrain. While avalanche warning services publish stru...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, model context protocol, large language models, caaml, information accessibility
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Title: HEURISTIC TRAPS IN AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT AND MARKETING MANIPULATION: A ZETETIC APPROACH TO CRITICAL DECISION-MAKING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cédric Larcher
Description: Avalanche risk assessment is often compromised by heuristic traps (familiarity, consistency, acceptance, expert halo, social facilitation, scarcity), ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.50.pdf
Keywords: heuristic traps, avalanche risk, cognitive biases, marketing manipulation, zetetics, decision-making
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Title: Numerical study of the feasibility of a downslope structure to limit avalanche size during avalanche control activity
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Francis Meloche, Ron Simenhois, Don Sharaf, Ethan Greene, Johan Gaume
Description: Avalanche defense structures in starting zones are effective, but they are also expensive and visually intrusive; as a result, many highway programs i...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.51.pdf
Keywords: crack arrest, avalanche mitigation structures, release size, numerical modelling, depth-averaged material-point-method.
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Title: RESIDUAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT AT THE PODLJUBELJ TUNNEL (SLOVENIA): A COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGICAL STUDY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mattia Matzutzi, Barbara Frigo, Blaž Komac
Description: Avalanche risk to transportation infrastructure remains a critical challenge in alpine regions, particularly where mitigation measures may be insuffic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.52.pdf
Keywords: residual risk, exposure conditions, traffic risk assessment, comparative approaches, avalanche–infrastructure interaction
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Title: INFOEX FOR PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION: USING THE TOOL FOR COURSE RISK MANAGEMENT AND MEETING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Karin Pocock, Chris Dyck
Description: For many avalanche education organizations, the documentation of daily avalanche forecasting and risk management has relied on internally developed pa...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.53.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, information exchange, terrain, operations and program management
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Title: WHEN AVALANCHES GET WETTER: ARE OUR BUILDING CODES FIT FOR THE FUTURE?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael L. Kyburz, Stefan Margreth, Betty Sovilla, Johan Gaume
Description: Avalanche impact pressures on structures remain challenging to predict because avalanche–structure interactions depend strongly on flow regime, snow...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.55.pdf
Keywords: wet avalanche impact loads, guidelines on structural actions, 3d numerical modelling, material point method, climate change
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Title: CONSTRAINING μ(I) PARAMETERS FOR SNOW AVALANCHE MODELLING: A CASE STUDY IN THE CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sophie Fontana, Lars Blatny, Johan Gaume, Davide Pasquali, Marcello Di Risio
Description: Avalanche hazard assessment and the design of avalanche defensive structures rely on the accurate simulation of avalanche dynamics. This requires past...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, incidents and case studies, modelling and quantitative forecasting, rheology, terrain
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Title: AVALANCHE EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE IN COMPETITIVE SNOWSPORTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sam Damon, Dale Atkins, Cindy Berlack
Description: Competitive snowsport athletes perceive dangers and think about risk differently than recreational snowsport enthusiasts. Thus, these athletes require...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.57.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, competitive snowsports, adolescents, age, decision making, risk communication, mitigation.
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Title: A MACHINE LEARNING SURROGATE FOR ALPINE3D SNOWPACK SIMULATION: PERSISTENCE-BASED EVALUATION AND A PATH TOWARD SNOWDRIFT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Brandon Hurd
Description: Distributed snow-cover models such as Alpine3D and SNOWPACK provide spatially detailed information on snowpack evolution, surface energy balance, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.58.pdf
Keywords: graph neural network, alpine3d, snowpack, snowpack modelling, avalanche forecasting, persistence baseline
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Title: CROSS SHAPED PV-STRUCTURES IN AVALANCHE PROTECTION: FIRST FIELD EXPERIENCES FROM SÖLDEN/TYROL/AUSTRIA 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alexander Ploner, Thomas Sönser, Florian Jamschek
Description: The vertical tree-like structure is called HELIOPLANT® and the selected spacing ensure that the vertex effect interrupts the redistribution of stress...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control; alpine pv-structure "solarforest"; high level renewable energy production; low environmental impact.
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Title: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ALPINE RESCUE: AVA COM RECOMMENDATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ISSW COLLABORATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stephanie Thomas, Mike Koppang, Claudio Artoni
Description: The International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) and the International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR) serve many of the same communities from diffe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.60.pdf
Keywords: icar, ava com, avalanche rescue, issw collaboration, search and rescue, probing strategy
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Title: A COMPREHENSIVE TESTING TOOLKIT FOR AVALANCHE RESCUE TRANSCEIVERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The goal of the MountainSafety.info Avalanche Rescue Transceiver Testing Toolkit is to provide to anyone with some technical background interested in ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.62.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver testing, avalanche beacon, search strip width, group check, user interface
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Title: INTERMITTENT VENTILATION DURING EXCAVATION OF A BURIED AVALANCHE PATIENT - AN EXPERIMENTAL PROSPECTIVE MANIKIN PROOF OF CONCEPT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Scott McIntosh, Marcelo Parada, Darryl Macias, Kyle McLaughlin, Sven Christjar Skaiaa, Peter Paal
Description: Complete burial in an avalanche leads to asphyxia-induced respiratory suppression and respiratory arrest. The timeline is influenced by the properties...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.63.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, asphyxia, respiratory arrest, rescue breathing, intermittent ventilation, ivent, companion rescue
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