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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: 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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Title: THE STATE OF THE SNOWPACK: A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSFORMING HOW AVALANCHE FORECASTS ARE INTERPRETED AND APPLIED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Morgan Dinsdale, Jason Wishlow, Catherine Paone
Description: Avalanche forecasts are widely accessed, but access alone does not ensure understanding or safe decision-making. Despite ongoing advances in forecasti...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.5.pdf
Keywords: risk communication; decision making; avalanche forecasting; community-based education; public safety; user behaviour
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Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Duncan Knight
Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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Title: THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN TERRAIN MANAGEMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE CHANGING THE CULTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erme Catino
Description: Technology, specifically regarding social media and Artificial Intelligence (Al), is moving at a speed we as society are struggling to keep up with an...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.20.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision making, risk communication, terrain
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Title: BEYOND BETTER DECISIONS: ACCIDENT REDUCTION IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: A paradox lies at the heart of many recreational avalanche accidents. Avalanche education is intended to help recreationists recognize dangerous condi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.33.pdf
Keywords: decision making, human factors, safety-ii, adaptive awareness
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Title: A SPATIAL EXTRAPOLATION APPROACH TO SNOWPACK WEAK LAYER CRITICALITY ACROSS AVALANCHE RELEASE AREAS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Frédéric Pourraz, Jill Chevalier, Alain Duclos, Gaëlle Bourgeois, Cédric Perillat-Merceroz
Description: Winter road serviceability in Savoie (northern French Alps) is ensured by the Natural Hazards Service of the Department in collaboration with the cons...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.39.pdf
Keywords: spatial extrapolation, similarities, snowpack criticality, decision-making
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Title: FIELD-BASED HAZARD RATING (FBHR): A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR RECREATIONISTS IN DATA-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Nikki Champion, Kiira Antenucci, Will McKay
Description: Backcountry recreationists often travel where formal avalanche forecasts, dense observation networks, and real-time snowpack data are unavailable. In ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.41.pdf
Keywords: backcountry decision-making, hazard rating, data-limited environments, heuristic traps, human factors, avalanche education
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Title: EMPOWERING TEAMS: STRUCTURED RISK MANAGEMENT AND FLUENT LEADERSHIP IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benedikt Friedrich, Stefan Blochum, Silvan Metz
Description: The Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service (Bergwacht Bayern) strives for the safest possible operational environment and the most challenging yet safe trai...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.44.pdf
Keywords: mountain rescue, risk management, decision making
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Title: A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AVALANCHE BULLETIN UNDERSTANDING AND TERRAIN SELECTION: A PROOF OF CONCEPT IN ANDORRA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aguirre-Noguera, B, Farías-Torbidoni, El, Revuelto, J, Llena, M, Margalef, A, Pons, M
Description: Understanding how backcountry users interpret and act upon avalanche hazard information and terrain remains a central challenge in avalanche hazard ma...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard communication; decision-making; risk perception; avalanche safety. drone, sig,
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Title: UNDERSTANDING THE ACTIONABILITY OF FUTURE SNOW AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPS IN ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kristin M. F. Timm, Patrick O. Ansah, Gabriel J. Wolken, Katreen W. Jones
Description: Climate change is altering snow and weather conditions in Alaska, creating new challenges for avalanche risk management. Researchers are developing fu...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.54.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, actionable science, hazard maps, decision-making, uncertainty, risk communication
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