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Title: PROTECTING GUIDE JUDGMENT: OPERATIONAL RISK TOLERANCE DURING PERIODS OF UNCERTAINTY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erin Tierney
Description: Expert judgment is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet the experience and intuition that build that judgement is developed from repeated exp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.6.pdf
Keywords: risk tolerance, decision-making, uncertainty, organizational change, intuition.
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Title: VISUALIZATION OF RUN USAGE HISTORY AND OBSERVATIONS AS A DECISION-MAKING AID DURING PERIODS OF PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER AVALANCHE RISK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tristen Rasmussen, John Forrest, Ryan Merrill
Description: Management of persistent weak layer (PWL) avalanche risk to guests and workers in the Helicopter Skiing Industry is of critical importance. PWL avalan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, terrain usage, decision tools.
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Title: ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN JUDGMENT FOR MACHINE-GENERATED AVALANCHE TENDENCY FORECASTS: PERFORMANCE GAINS AND THE RISK OF FORECAST FEEDBACK LOOPS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Frank Techel, Marc Ruesch, Stephanie Mayer
Description: Swiss avalanche forecasters will soon issue map-based tendency forecasts two to three days ahead, a demanding and time-consuming task. We examine whet...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, feedback loops, artificial intelligence, decision-support systems
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Title: ARE YOU BEHAVING OUT THERE?: STUDENT REPORTED BEHAVIOR CHANGES AFTER RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael A. Kerst, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Formal avalanche education has existed in Alaska since 1976. The Alaska Avalanche School (AAS) is the primary provider of this education and serves bo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, alaska, backcountry behaviors, recreational courses
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Title: AVSAR MINDSETS: A COMPANION FRAMEWORK FOR THE AVGAR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Ackerman
Description: The AvGAR is a decision-making tool for assessing and deploying avalanche search and rescue (AvSAR) missions, adapted from the United States Coast Gua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, decision making, risk assessment, human factors, search and rescue, mindsets
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Title: BEYOND LEVEL 2: EMERGING MODELS FOR ADVANCED RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE LEARNING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke
Description: Recreational avalanche education provides foundational knowledge, rescue skills, terrain management, and decision frameworks, but course completion al...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision capability, transfer, calibration, discipline-specific education, advanced recreational education
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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: HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN: A FRAMEWORK FOR PILOT EDUCATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christopher Templeton, Seth Waterfall
Description: Helicopter operations in mountainous winter environments present unique hazards that are often under-addressed in standard mountain flying curricula. ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.48.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, risk management
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Title: HEURISTIC TRAPS IN AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT AND MARKETING MANIPULATION: A ZETETIC APPROACH TO CRITICAL DECISION-MAKING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cédric Larcher
Description: Avalanche risk assessment is often compromised by heuristic traps (familiarity, consistency, acceptance, expert halo, social facilitation, scarcity), ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.50.pdf
Keywords: heuristic traps, avalanche risk, cognitive biases, marketing manipulation, zetetics, decision-making
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Title: INFOEX FOR PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION: USING THE TOOL FOR COURSE RISK MANAGEMENT AND MEETING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Karin Pocock, Chris Dyck
Description: For many avalanche education organizations, the documentation of daily avalanche forecasting and risk management has relied on internally developed pa...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.53.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, information exchange, terrain, operations and program management
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Title: AVALANCHE EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE IN COMPETITIVE SNOWSPORTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sam Damon, Dale Atkins, Cindy Berlack
Description: Competitive snowsport athletes perceive dangers and think about risk differently than recreational snowsport enthusiasts. Thus, these athletes require...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.57.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, competitive snowsports, adolescents, age, decision making, risk communication, mitigation.
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Title: FROM WHAT WE THINK TO WHAT WE SAY: THE P.E.A.C.H.E.S. MNEMONIC FOR COMMUNICATION-CENTRIC DECISION MAKING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Justin Borowsky
Description: In the past, research on decision making in avalanche terrain has focused heavily on the psychological heuristic traps that are often a component of a...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.22.pdf
Keywords: communication, decision-making, heuristics
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Title: BEYOND THE SLIDE: INSIGHTS FROM BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE SNOW SAFETY INDUSTRY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian Snape, Gary Kuehn, McKeira Cumming, Zhen Goh, Jeff Montgomery
Description: Snow safety professionals — patrollers, forecasters, guides, educators, and operational staff — work in some of the most unstable environments on ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: snow safety, psychological safety, resilience, sensemaker®, frontline wellbeing, decision-making
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Title: MACHINE LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrew Schauer, John Sykes
Description: Avalanche forecasters in the U.S. and Canada use the five-level North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale (NAPADS) as a tool to communicate avalanc...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.39.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, decision support, cmah, napads
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Title: GRIEF AS A SHARED HUMAN AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE: UNLOCKING INSIGHT INTO HUMAN FACTORS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brooke Edwards
Description: Grief and loss are often hidden realities in snow science and mountain professions, yet acknowledging and processing these experiences can yield deep ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.5.pdf
Keywords: grief, human factors, decision-making, loss, mental health, resilience
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