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- Title: AVALANCHE RISK OF HIGH MOUNTAIN HUTS IN SWITZERLAND AND ITS EVOLUTION DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Mark Schaer
- Description: The Swiss Alpine Club SAC operates 153 mountain huts in the Swiss Alps. Some of these huts are located at locations exposed to avalanches. In the past...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, climate change, avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk
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- Title: GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE MANAGEMENT USING GEOTEXTILES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: James Glover, Walter Steinkogler, Matthias Pleyer, Sebastian Althoff, Philipp Crivelli, Sophia Demmel
- Description: Glide-snow avalanches are a growing challenge for hazard and risk management. With extreme snowfall events and rapid warming periods, full depth glide...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.36.pdf
- Keywords: glide-snow, avalanche mitigation, foils
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- Title: AVALANCHE CONTROL ON NORWEGIAN HIGHWAYS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Jens Tveit, Njål Farestveit
- Description: A lot have happened on avalanche control in Norway since we started to test new methods in 2010. Before 2010 the methods for avalanche control were li...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.39.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche mitigation, norwegian public roads administration, norway
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- Title: MEASURING BLAST OVERPRESSURE EXPOSURE TO AVALANCHE WORKERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Ken Thompson, Mandy Geisler, Mark Saurer, Allie Fredbo
- Description: Blast overpressure (BOP) produced by explosives used for active avalanche mitigation
poses a risk to users and the exposure remains unquantified. Com...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.62.pdf
- Keywords: worker safety, explosives, avalanche mitigation, overpressure
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- Title: CHARACTERISTICS OF INBOUNDS AVALANCHE FATALITIES AT UNITED STATES SKI AREAS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Paul Baugher, Scott Savage, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Inbounds avalanche fatalities are both tragic and rare. Largely due to the diligent mitigation efforts of avalanche programs, the risk of a skier or s...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.05.pdf
- Keywords: inbounds avalanches, post mitigation release, ski area risk management, avalanche mitigation, ski area avalanche fatalities, ski area litigation
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- Title: Transportation Avalanche Research Pooled Fund Program
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: John Stimberis, Jim Kennedy, Rob Bickor, Jamie Yount, Bill Nalli, Brian Gorsage, Dave Hamre, Ethan Greene, Kevin Thompson
- Description: The Transportation Avalanche Research Pool (TARP) is a partnership of transportation entities to further communication and cooperation on research, de...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.1.pdf
- Keywords: transportation, avalanche detection, avalanche mitigation, explosives.
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- Title: Monitoring forces in steel wire rope nets: Evaluation of short and long term influences
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Engelbert Gleirscher, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Gigele, Armin Graf, Matthias Granig, Jan-Thomas Fischer
- Description: Flexible steel wire rope nets are used as mitigation measures in avalanche starting zones. The purpose of these measures lies in the prevention of an ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.3.pdf
- Keywords: steel wire rope nets, avalanche mitigation, design load, diurnal variation, mitigation measures, monitoring.
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- Title: Linking modelled potential release areas with avalanche dynamic simulations: an automated approach for large-scale avalanche hazard mapping
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Yves Bühler, Daniel von Rickenbach, Marc Christen, Stefan Margreth, Lukas Stoffel, Andreas Stoffel, Roderick Kühne
- Description: Snow avalanches are a major threat for people and infrastructure in alpine regions. In Switzerland and other countries in the Alps, long term experien...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.22.pdf
- Keywords: large scale hazard mapping, avalanche engineering, digital elevation model, release area, avalanche mitigation
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- Title: An Explosive Delivery System implementation in the Steep Gullies at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Ryan Evanczyk, Mark Bosse
- Description: Traditional methods of avalanche mitigation have been in use for many years at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. These methods include hand routes, use of ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O09.4.pdf
- Keywords: bomb tram, air blast, avalanche mitigation, mitigation methods, worker safety, explosive delivery system
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- Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham
- Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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- Title: Loveland Pass Avalanche Mitigation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Ethan Greene, Raymond Mumford, Tyler Weldon, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud
- Description: Close to Denver, Loveland Pass is part of the route that provides access to some famous ski resorts such as Vail and Keystone and is among of the more...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.51.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche mitigation, loveland pass, protection strategy
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- Title: Decision-Making and Avalanche Mitigation During a Rapid Onset Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Paul Baugher, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Although all avalanche types are difficult to forecast and mitigate, wet slab avalanches are particularly problematic. The dynamics of wet slabs are p...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O1.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche mitigation, decision-making, risk management, wet slab avalanches
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- Title: AVALANCHE MITIGATION MEASURES FOR SIGLUFJÖRÃUR – REALIZATION OF THE LARGEST PROJECT WITH SNOW SUPPORTING STRUCTURES IN ICELAND
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Tómas Jóhannesson, Hrafnkell Már Stefánsson3
- Description: The avalanche situation of Siglufjörður in northern Iceland is unique because the residential area is located directly at the base of several la...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O11.01.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, avalanche mitigation, snow supporting structures.
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