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Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Duncan Knight
Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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Title: SMART AVALANCHE CONTROL REDUCES ROAD CLOSURES IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ines Waltl, Brenden Cronin
Description: The Venter regional road between Sölden and Vent in the Austrian Alps has historically been highly vulnerable to avalanches, particularly along a pre...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.14.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems; active avalanche control; road safety; transportation corridors; avalanche mitigation; sölden
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Title: CHARACTERISATION OF AVALANCHES IN THE DOLOMITES. STUDY BASED ON THE WEBGIS VALANGHE, A GEOGRAPHIC DB CONTAINING 40 YEARS OF OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stefano Dalle Fratte, Roberta Dainese, Mauro Valt, Igor Chiambretti
Description: The forecast of avalanche run-out is essential information, both in the long term, for adequate planning of the territory and installation of anthropi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, geographical information system, terrain analysis
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Title: THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN TERRAIN MANAGEMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE CHANGING THE CULTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erme Catino
Description: Technology, specifically regarding social media and Artificial Intelligence (Al), is moving at a speed we as society are struggling to keep up with an...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.20.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision making, risk communication, terrain
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Title: VALIDATING THE UPDATES TO THE AVALUATOR VERSION 3: TRIP PLANNER AND SLOPE EVALUATOR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: James Floyer, Keith Robine
Description: Canada has seen a steady reduction in its 10-year avalanche fatality trend over the past two decades. Throughout this period, the Avaluator framework ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.21.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, decision support, avalanche education, trip planner, slope evaluator
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Title: SHALLOW BUT STILL LONG: PECULIAR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IN NORTHERN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matrin Ahrland Stefan, Holt Hancock, Peter Gauer
Description: Between December 3rd and 4th, 2025 some peculiar natural avalanches occurred in Tverrbotn adjacent to the Andersdalen valley, approx. 20 km south of T...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.26.pdf
Keywords: shallow avalanches, field observations, avalanche modeling.
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Title: EVOLUTION OF AVALANCHE MAPPING IN VENETO OVER 40 YEARS: FROM CLPV TO A WEBGIS-BASED SYSTEM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Germano Dorigo, Carlo Bee, Giovanna Burelli, Roberta Dainese, Igor Chiambretti
Description: The WebGIS-Valanghe portal represents a significant technological tool, developed by the Arabba Avalanche Centre of ARPA Veneto, with the technologica...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mapping, geographic information system, avalanche cadastre
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Title: Review of long-term climate and avalanche activity at Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada from 1965 to 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin Imbach, Jean-Benoit Madore, Andrew Jones, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Philippe Gachon
Description: This paper reviews long-term changes in climate and avalanche activity at Glacier National Park (GNP), British Columbia, Canada, updating the record e...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.29.pdf
Keywords: avalanche climate, climate trends, mann-kendall trend test, snow cover, wet avalanches, glacier national park
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Title: THERMAL UAS USE DURING A NIGHTTIME SEARCH AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Drew Gibson, Austin Finnell, Aaron J. Parmet
Description: Summit County Rescue Group (SCRG) deployed an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with a thermal camera during an overnight response for a missing...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.3.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, instrumentation and remote sensing, avalanche response, case studies, unmanned aircraft system, thermal imaging.
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Title: DOES IT ALWAYS SNOW IN JULY, OR RAIN IN DECEMBER? MELT-FREEZE RECRYSTALLIZATION IN THE MIDST OF A RECORD SETTING SEASON
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David Kelly, Drew Hardesty
Description: The winter of 2025-2026 set records for below average snowfall. Compared to the winter of 2022-2023, which set records for above average snowfall, one...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.30.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, avalanche forecasting, risk communication, melt-layer recrystallization, crusts
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Title: LINKING SNOWPITS TO SNOW MECHANICS WITH AN EXTENSIBLE ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mary Kate Connelly, Philipp L. Rosendahl, Valentin Adam, Samuel V. Verplanck
Description: Mechanical models of avalanche release require mechanical properties of snow, such as Young's modulus, E, and Poisson's ratio, ν, that are seldom mea...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.34.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics; snowpits; avalanche release; snowpilot; parameterization; uncertainty
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Title: HOW BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS TRANSLATE AVALANCHE BULLETINS INTO DECISIONS: A SEASON – LONG STUDY IN THE SONDRIO PROVINCE (ITALY), WINTER 2024/25
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jacopo Borsotti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Davide Spini, Federico Martinelli, Giulia Geronimi, Fabiano Monti
Description: Public avalanche forecasts are published daily by avalanche warning services to communicate avalanche hazard to the public for a particular area. They...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.35.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety; hazard communication; winter backcountry recreation; avalanche danger; avalanche bulletin
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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: FIELD-BASED HAZARD RATING (FBHR): A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR RECREATIONISTS IN DATA-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Nikki Champion, Kiira Antenucci, Will McKay
Description: Backcountry recreationists often travel where formal avalanche forecasts, dense observation networks, and real-time snowpack data are unavailable. In ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.41.pdf
Keywords: backcountry decision-making, hazard rating, data-limited environments, heuristic traps, human factors, avalanche education
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Title: A MULTI-SOURCE, INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPES IN FATAL INCIDENTS (2017–2026)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Keith Gale
Description: Avalanche danger ratings have appropriately received substantial research attention because they provide the primary regional summary of avalanche haz...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem types, danger scale, persistent slab, fatality analysis, international harmonization
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