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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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- 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: 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: 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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