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Title: DRY-TO-WET TRANSITIONAL AVALANCHES: INFERENCE MADE USING INFRA SOUND SURVEILLANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeffrey Johnson, Scott Havens, Timothy Glassett, Chris Stinson, Steven Clark, Jerry Mock, Hans Peter Marshall, Leighton Watson
Description: The maritime climate of Turnagain Arm, near Anchorage, Alaska, provides snow conditions conducive to the generation of frequent large avalanches, whic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, transitional avalanches
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE PEJO SKI AREA: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH USING A SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Brida, Carlo Bee, Giorgio Rosatti
Description: Snow avalanches pose a major hazard in alpine ski areas, where reliable local forecasts are essential for operational decisions such as ski slope open...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche forecasting, decision making, quantitative forecasting, ski resort management, local forecasting
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Title: FROM COMPACTION TO FAILURE: CREEP ACCELERATION AND BUCKLE FORMATION IN A GLIDING SNOW BEAM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Christophe Ancey
Description: Glide-snow avalanches are difficult to predict and mitigate and can pose major challenges for the protection of roads, ski resorts, and buildings. The...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche release, tilt test, basal detachment
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Title: KNOW YOUR ENEMY. KNOW YOUR TECHNOLOGY – A PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH TO MITIGATING INTERFERENCE EFFECTS DURING AVALANCHE RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dieter Kotlaba
Description: Electromagnetic interference can complicate avalanche rescue searches by reducing receiving range or causing unstable indications. Potential sources o...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche transceiver, electromagnetic interference
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Title: THE EVOLUTION OF VOICE NAVIGATION IN ORTOVOX AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dieter Kotlaba
Description: Voice navigation was first integrated into an avalanche transceiver by ORTOVOX during the 2021/22 season. Starting with the model DIRACT VOICE, voice ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche transceiver, voice navigation, verbal commands, user interface, stress
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Title: EVALUATING SIMULATIONS AGAINST MEASURED RADAR SPECTRA FROM AN AVALANCHE EVENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer, Callum Tregaskis, Anselm Köhler, Anna Wirbel, Richard Koschuch
Description: One major purpose of avalanche test sites such as Ryggfonn is to obtain measurements that can be used to characterize avalanche dynamics and to suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, measurements, radar velocity spectra, synthetic spectra
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Title: DYNAMIC CRACK PROPAGATION SPEED TRANSITION IN MULTILAYER SYSTEMS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Shubo Zhang, Nicola M. Pugno
Description: The dynamic propagation of cracks in solids is widely observed in nature, such as in snow avalanches. Pioneering studies have demonstrated that the up...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: dynamic crack propagation, snow avalanche, multilayer system.
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Title: A PROCESS FOR MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED UPDATES TO COURSE LEADER TRAINING CURRICULUM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Funderburke, Emma Walker
Description: The American Institute for Avalanche Research & Education (AIARE) trains avalanche practitioners to effectively teach recreational students. In this m...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, program evaluation, educational best practices, pedagogy, operational leadership
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Title: AVALANCHE RESCUE VR: IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING FOR COMPANION RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Sitar, Anna-Lena Hetzenauer, Christopher Marquardt, Paul Mair
Description: Companion rescue remains the single most critical factor in surviving avalanche burials, where the first ten minutes offer a survival probability of a...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, virtual reality, companion rescue, procedural training, user analytics
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Title: SMALL-AVALANCHE EXPERIMENTS IN NISEKO, JAPAN: TRIALS AND RESULTS 2016–2025
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Kouichi Nishimura, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshihiko Saito, Hirofumi Niiya, Sojiro Sunako, Kae Tsunematsu, Ryo Honda, Shinichiro Horikawa, Koji Fujita, Tsubasa Okaze, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Dieter Issler, Piotr Kupiszewski, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Anselm Köhler, Shoichi Mori, Kazuyuki Fujita, Akio Shinya
Description: Small-avalanche experiments were conducted in the Niseko-Annupuri mountain range in Japan from 2016 to 2019 and in 2025 to obtain small avalanche dyna...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.40.pdf
Keywords: small avalanche, avalanche experiment, sensor
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Title: SNOW-AVALANCHE PROTECTION MEASURES PUT TO TEST IN SEVERAL AVALANCHE CYCLES IN NW- AND N-ICELAND IN MARCH 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Harpa Grímsdóttir, Tómas Jóhannesson, Óliver Hilmarsson
Description: In response to catastrophic avalanche accidents in Icelandic settlements in 1995, a government programme was initiated to build protection measures fo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection measures, avalanche dams, avalanche cycles
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Title: FROM THE CHIC-CHOCS TO THE SEA-TO-SKY CORRIDOR: BACKCOUNTRY USER PREPAREDNESS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Élodie Brousseau-Gaumond
Description: Backcountry ski touring and splitboarding participation continues to grow across North America, raising the question of how preparedness is expressed ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.43.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreation, avalanche safety, preparedness, avalanche bulletin comprehension, human factors, sea-to-sky corridor
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Title: THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRY ON THE GAS DYNAMICS IN AVALANCHE CONTROL GAS EXPLODERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kevin Cheevers, Logan Maley, Elizabeth Ramey, Matei Radulescu
Description: The avalanche control industry is shifting towards the Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) to protect both public and private infrastructure such ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.44.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, gas dynamics, shock dynamics, cfd
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Title: UNSTRUCTURED DATA PROCESSING: ASKING NEW QUESTIONS OF AVALANCHE ACCIDENT REPORTS AND OTHER NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bhavya Chopra, Björn Hartmann, Aditya Parameswaran, Shreya Shankar
Description: Statistical analyses are powerful tools for distilling patterns in avalanche accidents. Most such analyses rely on structured data — quantities that...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.45.pdf
Keywords: large language models, unstructured data processing, visualization, avalanche reports
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Title: IMPROVING THE DATA BASIS FOR THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SNOW SLIDE IMPACTS FOR PRACTICAL AVALANCHE ENGINEERING AND HAZARD MAPPING APPLICATIONS IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Matthias Granig, Christian Tollinger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Snow slide hazard and risk assessment is increasingly relevant in the operational work of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (WLV)...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: snow slide, avalanche modeling, rapid assessment, surrogate models, avalanche engineering
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