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Title: THE EVOLUTION OF RISK PERCEPTION ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-PROBABILITY-HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EVENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Terry Eyland
Description: During the 2022-23 winter in western Canada, most avalanche fatalities were attributed to the early season, deeply buried persistent weak layer (PWL)...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.05.pdf
Keywords: risk perception, negative event feedback, avalanche education, decision making, trend effects, human error
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Title: UNDERSTANDING BACKCOUNTRY BEHAVIORS AFTER PARTICIPATION IN A RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE COURSE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Kelly R. McNeil, Jacqueline A. Morgan, Liz Y. Riggs Meder, Emma R. Walker
Description: A growing number of people are venturing into the backcountry each year. Many of these individuals are participating in avalanche training. However, l...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, behaviors, backcountry travel
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Title: LIFE-LONG LEARNING FOR SAFE MOUNTAIN FUN: TRANSFORMING BACK-COUNTRY SKIERS' PRACTICES THROUGH STIMULATING DOUBLE-LOOP LEARNING AT AVALANCHE COURSES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Tim Dassler, Tove I. Dahl, Tarjei T. Skille, Gerit Pfuhl, Richard Fjellaksel
Description: When skiing in avalanche terrain in the backcountry, bliss and happiness are always close to potential injury and even death. Safety in the snowy moun...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, double-loop learning, wicked learning environment, backcountry skiing, reflective learning
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Title: THE PROAVSAR- A CAPSTONE RESCUE TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael Ackerman
Description: The Professional Search and Rescue Course (ProAvSAR) was officially rolled out by the American Avalanche Association (A3) representing the final step ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, pro/rec split, rec level two, proavsar, pro provider alliance
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Title: MOTOVLOGGING AS AN AVALANCHE EDUCATION MEDIUM FOR MOTORIZED BACKCOUNTRY ENTHUSIASTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jerry Isaak, Brian Sather
Description: Motorized backcountry users are dramatically underrepresented in formal avalanche education programs. Avalanche educators and forecasting centers shou...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.10.pdf
Keywords: social media, snowmobile, snow machine, avalanche education
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Title: PROS AND CONS OF SNOWPACK TESTS IN A RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Tarah O'Connor
Description: The goal of this presentation is to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of teaching snowpack tests in recreational avalanche education. While tradition...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, snowpack tests, recreational curiculum, standardized testing
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Title: FROM KNOWLEDGE CONVEYANCE TO BEHAVIOR CHANGE: AN AVALANCHE EDUCATION THEORY OF PRACTICE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Liz Y. Riggs Meder, Emma R. Walker
Description: Avalanche education in the US grew out of a need to increase understanding of the nature of the hazard posed by avalanches. Education and training ini...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk management education, risk reduction, educational best practices, pedagogy
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Title: IMPROVING AVALANCHE CANADA'S YOUTH PROGRAM
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Shannon Werner
Description: Avalanche Canada's vision is that every child living near a mountainous region of Canada should have basic avalanche awareness. Many school children g...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.18.pdf
Keywords: youth avalanche education, school programs, funding
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Title: PERCEIVED VALUES, MOTIVATORS, AND BARRIERS ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULAR FIELD-BASED DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR BACKCOUNTRY TRAVEL IN THE U.S.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: J. Aaron Ball, R. Lee Frazer
Description: In this paper, we report the results of a non-random survey of recreationalists and snow professionals familiar with a common, yet empirically unstud...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.38.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
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Title: E-LEARNING AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AVALANCHE BULLETIN USERS, OBSERVERS, AND FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Rune Engeset, Jostein Aasen
Description: Regional, daily avalanche bulletins are the primary tool of avalanche warning services to inform winter backcountry recreationists and preparedness au...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulleting literacy, e-learning, norway
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Title: Local Avalanche Danger Assessment in reduced means context: an example in Tetnuldi ski area (Georgia - Caucasus)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sébastian Escande, Jean Christophe Lapalus, Frédéric Marion
Description: The development of Georgians ski resort involves several skills, including local avalanche danger assessment. Human organization and financial context...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger assessment tools, risk management education, avalanche terrain classification
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Title: Illegal & Lethal Snowmobiling in Northern Norway`s Avalanche Prone Mountains - what`s going on?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland, Rune V. Engeset
Description: Snowmobile avalanche related accidents is an increasing problem in Norway. Out of the 58 fatalities between 2009 and 2015, 10 were snowmobilers. Anoth...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.4.pdf
Keywords: snowmobiling, illegal, qualitative methods, avalanche education, decision-making
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Title: A Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making and the relevance of stability test
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Philip A. Ebert
Description: In this paper, I explore a Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making. I motivate this general outlook by introducing a well-known cognitive bi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.12.pdf
Keywords: bayesian reasoning, avalanche decision-making, avalanche education, base-rate fallacy, snow science, risk management
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Title: "Safer ski touring in Norway" - A guide book to 111 mountains where you can avoid avalanche terrain
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Erlend Sande, Espen Nordahl
Description: You may have heard that Norwegians are born with skis on their feet. Well, in 2018 we are no longer sure that this old saying holds true. One thing is...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.14.pdf
Keywords: safe ski touring, recognize avalanche terrain, ates, education, good day out
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Title: To go or not to go: Decision making at individual slope
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Hansueli Rhyner, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
Description: The holistic assessment and decision framework «3 × 3» is well established for ski and snowboard tours. Whereas difficult decisions can be p...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.15.pdf
Keywords: decision making, avalanche prevention, individual slope, backcountry touring, risk assessment, education
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