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Title: DECISION-MAKING UNDER CONSTRAINT: HOW SAR TEAMS NAVIGATE AVALANCHE TERRAIN WHEN DESTINATION AND TIMING ARE FIXED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brad Hefta-Gaub, Erik Olson, Jim Hirshfield
Description: Search and Rescue (SAR) teams often operate in avalanche terrain under conditions fundamentally different from those assumed by standard recreational ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.1.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche terrain, decision making, human factors, operational constraints, avalanche education
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Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR SKI TOURING IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peder Undheim, Jan Ketil Rød, Håvard B. Toft
Description: An increasing number of Norwegians engage in ski touring in winter mountains. With growing traffic in avalanche terrain, there is a need for tools tha...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.2.pdf
Keywords: routefinding, gis, terrain, ski touring, decision making
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Title: AVALANCHE SCENARIO MAPS: FROM TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION TO DECISION SUPPORT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christoph Hesselbach, Jakob Schwarz, Paula Spannring, Anna Wirbel, Andreas Huber, Michael Winkler, Christoph Mitterer, Harald Riedl, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning requires spatially explicit estimates of where avalanches may release, how they may propagate, and what size they may ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche scenario maps, site-specific avalanche warning, avalanche size, avalanche simulation, decision support
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Title: SHRINE BOWL AVALANCHE CASE STUDY: LESSONS IN EXPECTATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron Parmet, Drew Gibson
Description: This case study of an outlier in avalanche rescue survival provides an opportunity to examine how expectation-based heuristics influence operational j...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, search and rescue, long avalanche burial, cognitive heuristics, expectation bias, decision-making
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Title: BEING DIFFICULT: STRATEGIES FOR ENCOURAGING DISSENT FROM COLLEAGUES AND STAFF IN THE A.M. FORECAST MEETING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jenna Malone
Description: Cognitive science and psychology have long explored how individuals can ignore or reinterpret crucial information to reinforce their existing beliefs....
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.7.pdf
Keywords: dissent, psychological safety, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, crew resource management, groupthink
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Title: MANAGING SURGICAL RISK LIKE A MOUNTAIN GUIDE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alexander Miles, Tim Ricci, Geoff Osler, Jonathan S. White, Simon R. Turner
Description: While the professions of surgery and mountain guiding may seem quite different, there appear to be many similar challenges faced by both groups. Ultim...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.1.pdf
Keywords: risk, decision making, safety, education
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Title: THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jake M. Hutchinson
Description: This exploratory survey began with a simple operational question: when avalanche professionals first build a hazard picture, does the initial forecast...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, professional intuition, recognition, decision making, training
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Title: THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Macpherson, Scott Thumlert
Description: Managing exposure to avalanche hazard through terrain selection is the primary avalanche risk mitigation strategy in winter backcountry guiding. The r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.3.pdf
Keywords: run list, run coding, mechanized skiing, canadian mountain holidays, terrain selection, avalanche risk management, decision-making
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Title: OPERATIONAL MEETINGS IN AVALANCHE OPERATIONS: IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marc R Piché
Description: Operational meetings remain one of the central decision-making tools in avalanche risk management. In many field programs, they are where weather, sno...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche operations, operational meetings, human factors, decision support, artificial intelligence
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Title: PRACTITIONERS' INTERPRETATION OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AVALANCHE HAZARD
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron C. Barnett, Andrew Forsman, Eeva Latosuo, Ryan Minton
Description: The Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH) was created to be a systematic, consistent workflow for avalanche hazard and risk assessment. It is a ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.6.pdf
Keywords: conceptual model of avalanche hazard, decision aid, avalanche forecasting, expert interpretation, avalanche type, distribution
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Title: MISTAKE-BASED LEARNING ACROSS HIGH-RISK DISCIPLINES: AN AVALANCHE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: J. Aaron Ball
Description: Snow avalanche professionals operate in wicked learning environments, where mistakes are inevitable due to feedback that is absent, inconsistent, or d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.1.pdf
Keywords: mistake-based learning, professional avalanche training, high-risk decision-making, wicked learning environment, learning context
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Title: A SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING AVALANCHE RISK REDUCTION INTERVENTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Kelly McNeil
Description: In response to emerging problems or opportunities, such as avalanche incidents or technological advances, avalanche safety service providers face deci...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk reduction; intervention design and evaluation; decision-making
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Title: WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonie Kommerell, Håvard Boutera Toft, Gustav Pless, Karin Bergbjørn
Description: During periods of high/extreme avalanche hazard, decision makers need to identify which buildings may be exposed and where field assessments or evacua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche exposure, emergency management, potential release areas, runout modelling, decision support, building prioritization
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Title: MANAGING RISK AS A ROAMING SKI TOURING GUIDE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Geary
Description: I define a Roaming Ski Touring Guide (RSTG) as: "Guiding across multiple areas or continents within a season, for multiple operations and on private t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.1.pdf
Keywords: capacity, decision making, human factors, run lists, ski guiding, infoex
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