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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 SIGLUFJÖRÐUR – 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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