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Title: DO INFRASOUND ARRAYS HAVE AN ACCENT? VALIDATING AVALANCHE DETECTION ACROSS SITES AND WINTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leslie King, Scott Havens
Description: Infrasound arrays may be used to monitor avalanches and other natural hazards, and machine learning classifiers can be used to discriminate event sign...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.64.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection; infrasound; machine learning; sensor arrays; model transfer
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Title: FED-UP WITH FEEDBACK: WHY FEED-FORWARD MATTERS MORE IN WICKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tim Dassler, Tove Dahl
Description: The concept of the "wicked learning environment" has gained significant traction in avalanche education, where the spatial variability of the snowpack...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.7.pdf
Keywords: wicked learning environment, avalanche education, mentorship, cognitive apprenticeship, reflective practice, expertise development
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Title: DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE ROCKFALL BARRIERS UNDER STATIC AND DYNAMIC AREAL LOADING FROM SNOW
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dennis Gasteiger, Maximilian Kramer
Description: Flexible rockfall barriers are primarily designed to absorb high-energy point impacts caused by falling rocks. However, when installed in mountainous ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.8.pdf
Keywords: flexible rockfall barriers, snow loads, avalanche loads, rope statics, structural analysis, multi-hazard protection
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Title: TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS AND AVALANCHE CHARACTER IN THE CENTRAL WASATCH: A STATION BASED ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Haley Brenkmann
Description: Atmospheric temperature inversions form under clear, calm, high-pressure conditions and are shaped by both synoptic weather and local topography. We t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.1.pdf
Keywords: temperature inversion, avalanche, snowpack, wasatch, snotel, cold-air pooling
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Title: REEVALUATING THE "10 CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS": DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY PREDICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David E. Gluckman, Steven Clark
Description: In operational practice, many avalanche forecasters rely primarily on subjective experience to provide risk assessments. Long-standing ideas of contri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factors, machine learning, data-driven models
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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: USING MODIFIED PROPAGATION SAW TESTS TO TRACK INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN SNOWPACK STABILITY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Itai Sheleg, Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland, Dave Gauthier, Ron Simenhois
Description: Backcountry avalanche forecasters issue daily snowpack stability assessments to guide danger ratings and travel recommendations. Stability trends are ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.12.pdf
Keywords: propagation saw test, crack propagation, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Forecast Verification and Occurrence in Scotland, 2007–2025
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian N. Durbach, Blair Fyffe, Brian Morrison, Mark Diggins, Philip A. Ebert
Description: The Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) has issued daily avalanche forecasts across Scotland since 1988. In 2016, the service adopted the Eu...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, danger level, avalanche occurrence, scotland
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Title: HOW BACKCOUNTRY USERS ENGAGE WITH AVALANCHE FORECASTS: EVIDENCE FROM AN ITEM RESPONSE MODELLING APPROACH
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jerred Jolin, Kelly McNeil
Description: This study examined patterns of avalanche forecast information use among recreational-level avalanche course completers using data from the Use of Ava...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, engagement, risk communication
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Title: MISSION-FOCUSED RISK MAPPING FOR AVALANCHE CONTROL IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Chris Argue, Danyelle Magnan
Description: Avalanche control for the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park (GNP) relie...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.16.pdf
Keywords: risk, artillery, avalanche, control, mapping.
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Title: TO PROBE OR NOT TO PROBE: EVALUATING FINE SEARCH STANDARDS AND THE ROLE OF PROBING IN SHALLOW BURIAL PROFESSIONAL RESCUE SCENARIOS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ben Merkle
Description: The first thirty minutes of the avalanche burial survival curve are the steepest, and even small time savings in gaining airway access can improve pat...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, professional rescue, shallow burial, probe, fine search
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Title: USING HIGH-RESOLUTION VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS TO FORECAST PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER FORMATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Waterfall, John Stimberis, Rachel Griffith
Description: Vertical temperature gradients near the snow surface play a critical role in snowpack metamorphism and atmospheric energy exchange. The near-surface b...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, instrumentation and remote sensing, snowpack properties, modelling and quantitative forecasting
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Title: MOTORIZED AVALANCHE RESCUE PROCEDURES: ADAPTING COMPANION RESCUE TO MACHINE-BASED TRAVEL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Established avalanche companion-rescue fundamentals apply to motorized users, but snowmobiles and snow bikes change how they are carried out. Rescue s...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.19.pdf
Keywords: motorized avalanche rescue; companion rescue; snowmobile; transceiver interference; search management; m.a.r.p.
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Title: LOOKING BACK—30 YEARS OF IMPACT: A CALTRANS GAZEX RACS HISTORY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ryan Marvin
Description: Since its introduction in the early 1990s, Gazex Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) have become a central component of avalanche hazard managemen...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.20.pdf
Keywords: gazex, remote avalanche control, highway avalanche mitigation, caltrans, avalanche safety, racs
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Title: A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR ASSESSING THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF STORM TOTALS FROM REMOTE AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michelle Dalpes, John Sykes, Jason Konigsberg, Spencer Logan
Description: Regional backcountry forecast centers face persistent challenges in understanding the historical significance of ongoing storms. This situational awar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, incidents and case studies, instrumentation and remote sensing
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