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Title: THE HUMAN FACTOR: EVERYONE'S PRIORITY, NOBODY'S CURRICULUM. INSIGHTS FROM AN ISSW 2024 WORKSHOP
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Richard Fjellaksel, Tarjei Tveito Skille, Tim Dassler, Audun Hetland, Ian McCammon, Tove Dahl
Description: Human factors are widely recognized as central to most avalanche accidents, and avalanche educators can access more content about them than ever befor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.2.pdf
Keywords: human factors, avalanche education, experiential learning, teaching strategies, learning outcomes, instructor development
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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: OH, THE STORIES WE TELL ... OR NOT: A POST-AVALANCHE CASE STUDY FROM THE GODMOTHER COULOIR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tove I. Dahl
Description: How can we facilitate learning through the sharing of difficult experiences for the greater good of the community? This study examines stories told by...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, story, storytelling, situated learning, resilience, learning
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Title: INVESTIGATING SYSTEMS, NOT PEOPLE: LEARNING FROM INCIDENTS IN MOUNTAIN SAFETY PROFESSIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Laura M.D. Maguire, Steve Conger, Morgan E. Reynolds
Description: Over the last twenty years, several innovative new incident investigation methods have been developed to assist organizations with taking a systemic v...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.7.pdf
Keywords: learning from incidents, accidents, investigations, organizational learning, skills develop-ment.
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Title: TRACKING WET SNOW AVALANCHE FREQUENCY AND SEASONAL PATTERNS AT ALYESKA RESORT, GIRDWOOD, ALASKA, FROM 1968 TO 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Jeff Bristow
Description: This study uses 58 seasons (1968/69–2025/26) of avalanche records from Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, to evaluate changes in the recorded frequ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.4.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, climate, avalanche forecasting, machine learning
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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: MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE CLASSIFICATION – A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kalin Markov, Yves Bühler, Andreas Huber, Momchil Panayotov
Description: Backcountry travel in mountainous regions in Bulgaria has increased significantly in recent decades, heightening the need for effective avalanche risk...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, ates, machine learning, com4flowpy, ramms, bulgaria
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Title: A PRELIMINARY STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF INSTABILITY PREDICTABILITY IN OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sondre Wold
Description: Observational recordings of snow conditions help avalanche forecasters assess snowpack instability over large areas. In Norway, trained observers subm...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.38.pdf
Keywords: instability tests, sequence modeling, data validation, machine learning
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Title: FROM SCOTTISH SNOW PATCHES TO GLOBAL SNOW COVER: A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH TO SNOW COVER FRACTION RETRIEVAL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leam Howe, Richard Essery, Elliot J. Crowley
Description: Optical snow mapping products are often developed and validated on regions with deep, clean, continuous snowpacks under clear skies. Maritime mountain...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.59.pdf
Keywords: snow cover mapping, fractional snow cover, remote sensing, sentinel-2, deep learning, maritime snowpack, scotland
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Title: DO INFRASOUND ARRAYS HAVE AN ACCENT? VALIDATING AVALANCHE DETECTION ACROSS SITES AND WINTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leslie King, Scott Havens
Description: Infrasound arrays may be used to monitor avalanches and other natural hazards, and machine learning classifiers can be used to discriminate event sign...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.64.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection; infrasound; machine learning; sensor arrays; model transfer
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Title: FED-UP WITH FEEDBACK: WHY FEED-FORWARD MATTERS MORE IN WICKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tim Dassler, Tove Dahl
Description: The concept of the "wicked learning environment" has gained significant traction in avalanche education, where the spatial variability of the snowpack...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.7.pdf
Keywords: wicked learning environment, avalanche education, mentorship, cognitive apprenticeship, reflective practice, expertise development
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Title: REEVALUATING THE "10 CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS": DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY PREDICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David E. Gluckman, Steven Clark
Description: In operational practice, many avalanche forecasters rely primarily on subjective experience to provide risk assessments. Long-standing ideas of contri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factors, machine learning, data-driven models
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Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF SNOWPACK AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN AN OPERATIONAL FORECASTING WORKFLOW
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Chad Brackelsberg, Paige Pagnucco, Travis J. Morrison
Description: Snowpack modeling and machine-learning–based decision-support tools offer increasing potential for operational avalanche forecasting, yet their comp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, machine learning, operational forecasting, workflow
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Title: BINARY AVALANCHE DETECTION SYSTEM (BADS)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Dvorsak, William Tidd, Christopher Casebeer, Eric Bressler
Description: Detecting avalanche events in real-time remains a challenge for ski resorts, transportation agencies, railways, and avalanche mitigation professionals...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.26.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, differential pressure sensor, remote sensing, avalanche mitigation, machine learning
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Title: MACHINE LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrew Schauer, John Sykes
Description: Avalanche forecasters in the U.S. and Canada use the five-level North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale (NAPADS) as a tool to communicate avalanc...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.39.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, decision support, cmah, napads
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