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Title: Differences Between Avalanche Experts and Novices
Date: 2004
Authors: Dale Atkins, Ian McCammon
Description: Differences between avalanche experts and novices have long been cited as a key issue in designing effective avalanche education, yet few investigatio...
Object ID: issw-2004-452-461.pdf
Keywords: expertise, expert, novice, avalanche education, training, experience, decision making
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Title: Sex, Drugs and the White Death: Lessons for Avalanche Educators from Health and Safety Campaigns
Date: 2004
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: A common expectation of avalanche education is that it should reduce the frequency of avalanche deaths. But is this expectation realistic? After all, ...
Object ID: issw-2004-492-501.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk, decision making, training
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Title: Comparing Avalanche Decision Frameworks Using Accident Data from the United States
Date: 2004
Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Hägeli
Description: In recent years, a number of decision-making frameworks have been developed to help European recreationists make better decisions in avalanche terrain...
Object ID: issw-2004-502-512.pdf
Keywords: decision making, avalanche education, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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Title: Online Decision Support Tool for Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2004
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz, Michaela Kinberger
Description: The Avalanche Warning Center Tyrol (Innsbruck, Austria) together with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna ha...
Object ID: issw-2004-514-519.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, online information system, decision support system
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Title: Beyond the Go / No Go Decision Making Paradigm
Date: 2004
Authors: Howie Schwartz
Description: Avalanche education courses and publications for backcountry travelers traditionally present decision-making processes in the context of whether or n...
Object ID: issw-2004-531.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, education, risk, decision
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Title: Parks Canada’s Evolution of Public Avalanche Safety
Date: 2004
Authors: Grant Statham
Description: The winter of 2002/03 presented western Canada with one of the most complex and challenging snowpacks in recent memory. On February 1, 2003 in Glacie...
Object ID: issw-2004-534.pdf
Keywords: safety, terrain, risk, backcountry, decision making
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Title: Decision Making in the Mountain Environment
Date: 2004
Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Mountain guides are making decisions on a continual basis. Some of them are as seemingly simple as “Which boots should I wear today”? Som...
Object ID: issw-2004-535-544.pdf
Keywords: decision making, training, coaching, assessment
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Title: Avalanche Statistical Survey
Date: 2004
Authors: Gary Brill
Description: Recent work has demonstrated what has long been known; that avalanche incidents have as much to do with human factors as with the other parts of the ...
Object ID: issw-2004-711.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, avalanche triangle, avalanche accidents
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Title: Operational Decision Tree Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2002
Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder, Robert E. Davis
Description: Decision tree models ofmaximum avalanche size class run daily at Mammoth Mountain, California. A classification tree grown on an eight-year subset of ...
Object ID: issw-2002-152-158.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, decision trees, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Evidence of Heuristic Traps in Recreational Avalanche Accidents
Date: 2002
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: Even though people are capable of making decisions in a thorough and methodical way, it appears that most of the time they don't. A growing body of re...
Object ID: issw-2002-244-251.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche education, decision making, heuristics, human factors
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Title: The Role of Training in Recreational Avalanche Accidents in the United States
Date: 2000
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: Avalanche education has become widely available in the United States, and yet trained recreationists continue to comprise over a third of avalanche vi...
Object ID: issw-2000-037-045.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche education, human factors, decision making, heuristics, risk homeostasis, risk reduction, behavioral education, naturalistic decision making
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Title: Human Factors in Avalanche Accidents
Date: 2000
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: A review of fatal United States avalanche accidents in the 1990s shows terrain, weather, and snow pack conditions are generally contributory factors t...
Object ID: issw-2000-046-051.pdf
Keywords: human factors, human errors, avalanche fatalities, avalanche accidents, naturalistic decision making
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Title: Avalanche Activity and Interaction with Harvested Terrain: Terrain Analysis and Decision Support Systems for Risk Management.
Date: 2000
Authors: Kevin R. Stitzinger, Peter F. Weisinger, David McClung
Description: The destruction of valuable timber due to snow avalanches that interact with regenerating and mature forest stands has become an issue of great concer...
Object ID: issw-2000-458-461.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, forestry, decision support, resource management, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: Nivotest: A Pocket Tool for Avalanche Risk Assessing
Date: 2000
Authors: Dr. R. Bolognesi
Description: NivoTest is dedicated to free riders (using skis, snowboards, snowmobiles, etc.) who feel concerned by avalanches. It is designed to help to assess a...
Object ID: issw-2000-554-557.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche education, decision support tool
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Title: Two Expert Systems to Forecast the Avalanche Hazard for a Given Region
Date: 1994
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Paul M.B. Fohn
Description: A commercially available software, CYBERTEK-COGENSYSâ„¢ Judgment Processor for inductive decision-making, was ;used to develop two different exper...
Object ID: issw-1994-295-309.pdf
Keywords: hazard, snow cover, decision making, snow profiles,
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