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Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT AT WHISTLER MOUNTAIN UTILIZING STRATEGIC MINDSET AND DE-BIASING STRATEGIES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Timothy R. Haggerty, Darren Saul, Nicole Koshure
Description: With over two million annual skier visits, and an operational season that runs from November to May and switches to an industrial forecasting program ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.64.pdf
Keywords: ski resort avalanche forecasting, risk management, strategic mindset, de-biasing, reflection, mentorship
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Title: PRECISION IN THE AIR: ENGINEERING RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY OF SUAS-DELIVERED AIR BLASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ralph Blumberg, Joseph Albanese, Braden Schmidt, Carrick Detweiler, Dan Justa, Max Tubman
Description: Successful avalanche mitigation relies on the spatial precision of explosive placement and the optimization of air-blast detonations to maximize shock...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.65.pdf
Keywords: electronic detonator, suas, avalanche mitigation, air-blast, safety, e*star, montis
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Title: FROM HAZARD ASSESSMENT TO ACTION IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron Careaga, Scott Havens, Don Sharaf, Dave Richards, Clark Corey
Description: Frameworks such as the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) provide a structured basis for characterizing avalanche hazar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, cmah, site-specific forecasting, hazard action matrices, operational decision support, osarm
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Title: LAWYERS CREEK – MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK IN THE OMINECA MOUNTAINS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mark Vesely, Greg Johnson
Description: The Omineca Mountains are made up of a series of remote ranges located in north central British Columbia, Canada. Due to their remote nature, publishe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.8.pdf
Keywords: omineca mountains, operations, avalanche climate
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Title: AVALANCHE ACTIVITY MONITORING AND ALARMING AT MOTTEC, VALAIS, SWITZERLAND – A COMBINED APPROACH TO ENSURE CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ólafur Stitelmann, Théo St-Pierre Ostrander, Maxence Carrel, Ivan Sanchez, Marc Délèze
Description: The Mottec power plant is part of the hydropower facility operated by Forces Motrices de la Gougra, located in the Val d'Annievers, Valais, Switzerlan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, alarming system, hydro-power plant
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Title: BUILDING TRUST IN SNOWPACK MODELS: EVALUATION GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCHERS AND FORECASTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Alec van Herwijnen, Francis Meloche, Travis J. Morrison, Louis Quéno, Vincent Vionnet
Description: Physically based snowpack models are increasingly integrated into operational avalanche hazard forecasting, yet fragmented evaluation practices reduce...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.1.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, model evaluation, avalanche forecasting, decision support
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Title: GREY ZONES – EXAMINING FORECASTERS' PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Ethan Greene
Description: Uncertainty is inherent in avalanche forecasting, yet it is not communicated in a consistent way in public avalanche forecasts. Avalanche forecast use...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research
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Title: TO MEASURE OR NOT TO MEASURE: HOW DENSITY-DETERMINATION METHODS CAN INFLUENCE SNOW INSTABILITY SIMULATED FROM OBSERVED PROFILES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonardo Zoltan, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Numerical snow cover models have emerged as valuable tools for avalanche forecasting, simulating snowpack stratigraphy and producing instability metri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, modelling and quantitative forecasting, snowpack properties, snow density
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Title: D-SCALE VERSUS INFRASOUND: REMOTE QUANTIFICATION OF AVALANCHE SIZE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeffrey Johnson, Jerry Mock, Steven Clark, Laurie Delaney, Scott Havens, Owen Walsh, Gustavo Behar
Description: Infrasound monitoring is an established technology for detecting and mapping the progression of both triggered and natural snow avalanches and has bee...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, d-scale, size estimation
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Title: MESSAGING FOR MOUNTAINEERS: NEW ZEALAND'S APPROACH TO REDUCING CLIMBER AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN SPRING AND SUMMER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Penny Goddard, Bianca K. Bratton, Nathan Watson
Description: Over the last 27 years, 70% of New Zealand's fatal avalanche accidents involved mountaineers, and 76% of them occurred during spring and summer—an u...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.2.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering, alpine climbing, summer, spring, avalanche, education.
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Title: MOBILE DRONE DOCKING STATIONS TO SUPPORT SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE OBSERVATIONS AND FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Halgeir Dahle, Ruben Jacobsen, Knut Inge Orset, Tore Humstad
Description: During periods of elevated avalanche hazard, field observations may be restricted due to safety concerns, limited accessibility, or rapidly changing c...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.21.pdf
Keywords: site-specific forecasting, road avalanche warning, mobile drone station, autonomous
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Title: OBSERVATIONS FROM AREAL SURVEILLANCE OF AVALANCHE ACTIVITY USING ROADSIDE DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Guro K. Svendsen, Antoine Turquet, Tore Humstad
Description: From January 2025 to January 2026 we used Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to record avalanche activity in the valley of Lavangsdalen, Troms, Norway...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.22.pdf
Keywords: das, snow avalanche dynamics, road safety, warning systems
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Title: ESTABLISHING A COLLABORATIVE PYTHON LIBRARY FOR PARSING AND POST-PROCESSING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS: XSnow
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Florian Herla, Ron Simenhois, Simon Horton, Léo Viallon-Galinier, Mathias Bavay, Michael Reisecker, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Detailed snow cover models such as SNOWPACK and CROCUS have become valuable tools for avalanche warning services. Increasingly ambitious applications,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.29.pdf
Keywords: snow cover modeling, avalanche forecasting, post-processing, gridded data model, open-source software, community-driven
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Title: CHANGING THE FUTURE: ELECTRONIC INITIATION SYSTEM (E*STAR) FOR AVALANCHE EXPLOSIVES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Blancher, Braden Schmidt, Timothy Glassett
Description: E*STAR is an electronic detonator system developed by Austin Powder Company that pairs a programmable microchip with dual capacitors to precisely init...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk mitigation, e*star, electronic detonator, safety fuse assembly, pull-wire ignitors, programmable delay, montis
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Title: TRACKING WATER IN SNOW: BRIDGING SENSOR DATA AND MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Robyn Gotz, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet slab avalanches remains one of the most demanding challenges in operational avalanche forecasting. A key obstacle is the difficulty of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.30.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content, snowpack, in-situ measurements, avalanche forecasting
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