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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: A PROCESS FOR MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED UPDATES TO RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE CURRICULUM TOOLS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Emma Walker, Ron Funderburke, Kelly McNeil, Aaron Ball
Description: The AIARE fieldbook is the primary tool instructors use to deliver AIARE recreational avalanche courses, as well as a post-course planning and referen...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, program evaluation, action-oriented learning outcomes, educational best practices, pedagogy
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Title: UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING A PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE TRAINING PROGRAM: INITIAL FINDINGS FROM THE AIARE PRO 1
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Emma Walker, Sean Zimmerman-Wall
Description: Professional avalanche training plays a central role in preparing workers for avalanche operations, yet little research has examined its effectiveness...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, professional training, program evaluation
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Title: A PROCESS FOR MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED UPDATES TO COURSE LEADER TRAINING CURRICULUM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Funderburke, Emma Walker
Description: The American Institute for Avalanche Research & Education (AIARE) trains avalanche practitioners to effectively teach recreational students. In this m...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, program evaluation, educational best practices, pedagogy, operational leadership
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Title: BUILDING TRUST IN SNOWPACK MODELS: EVALUATION GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCHERS AND FORECASTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Alec van Herwijnen, Francis Meloche, Travis J. Morrison, Louis Quéno, Vincent Vionnet
Description: Physically based snowpack models are increasingly integrated into operational avalanche hazard forecasting, yet fragmented evaluation practices reduce...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.1.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, model evaluation, avalanche forecasting, decision support
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Title: ASSESSING THE APPLICABILITY OF SNOWPACK IN AN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY IN NUNAVIK, QC
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: PAQUETTE VIOLAINE
Description: Avalanche hazard in Arctic regions remains poorly documented, partly because continuous meteorological and snowpack observations are spatially limited...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.58.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, arctic snowpack, nunavik, avalanche hazard, model evaluation, alpine 3d
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Title: ABUNDANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATA PRODUCING THE AVALANCHE BULLETIN: WHAT ROLE DOES DIRECT OBSERVATION IN THE FIELD PLAY?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Faletto Mattia, Pivot Stefano, Chiambretti Igor, Bormioli Daniele
Description: Technology lets us quickly process information to produce increasingly accurate and detailed avalanche forecasts. However, a good forecast cannot be m...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.22.pdf
Keywords: field evaluation comparison, wandering snowpack observations, avalanche forecasting, regional avalanche bulletin
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Title: SCENARIO-BASED AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS INCLUDING SNOW ENTRAINMENT, SNOW TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lukas Stoffel, Perry Bartelt, Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche engineers use scenario-based simulations to predict avalanche runout and quantify impact pressures. An important input parameter for such si...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics; snow entrainment, snow temperature, snow density, hazard evaluation, climate change
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Title: RISKCHECK: A FRAMEWORK FOR AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT, INTEGRATING MANUAL AND SEMI-AUTOMATED APPROACHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Reuter, Josiah Rohrer, Martin Ruggli, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Those traveling in the winter backcountry expose themselves to avalanche danger, where the interplay of triggering probability and potential conseque...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk assessment, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard evaluation, bayesian framework, decision-making
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Title: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN SAFETY JUDGEMENTS BY GROUPS OF SKIERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tim Dassler, Richard Fjellaksel, Michael Morreau
Description: Underestimating avalanche factors can give backcountry skiers a false sense of safety. In theory, aggregating the estimates of group members can enabl...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.11.pdf
Keywords: wisdom of crowds, risk assessment, avalanche education, avalanche course evaluation, trip planning, hazard management
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Title: REFLECTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH TO AVALANCHE SAFETY PRACTICES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Anne St. Clair, Kelly McNeil, Andrea Mannberg, Audun Hetland
Description: The influence of human perception, judgment, and behavior on avalanche safety is well known and has been described in the literature for a long time. ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.01.pdf
Keywords: social science, human factors, product development, product evaluation
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Title: A QUANTITATIVE MODULE OF AVALANCHE HAZARD---COMPARING FORECASTER ASSESSMENTS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEMS WITH INFORMATION DERIVED FROM DISTRIBUTED SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton, Patrick Mair
Description: Avalanche forecasting is a human judgment process with the goal of describing the nature and severity of avalanche hazard based on the concept of aval...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, avalanche problems, model evaluation
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Title: TOWARD IMPROVED EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC AVALANCHE SAFETY SERVICES: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASKING CONSTRUCTIVE QUESTIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Making decisions about how to design, revise, or discontinue public avalanche safety products and programs is not a simple or straightforward task. Ho...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.51.pdf
Keywords: risk governance, program development, program evaluation, systems thinking
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Title: Evaluation of an infrasound detection system for avalanches in Rogers Pass, Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Lisa Dreier, Giacomo Ulivieri, Jamie Sanderson, Alan Jones, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Infrasound array technology for the detection of snow avalanches was tested at Rogers Pass, BC, Canada over the 2016-17 winter season (24 December 201...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.11.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, evaluation.
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Title: An Attempt to Create a Soundness Evaluation for Snow Bridges
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Yusuke Harada, Hiroki Matsushita, Akito Kanazawa
Description: The authors collected examples of damage and material aging for avalanche defense structures and summarized the points for their inspections based on ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.8.pdf
Keywords: soundness evaluation, maintenance, snow bridges.
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