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Title: SWE ESTIMATION FOR HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS: COMBINING WEATHER RADAR AND MACHINE LEARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Baxter E. Vieux, Jean E. Vieux, William E. Vieux
Description: Snow water equivalent (SWE) estimation is critical for water resource management and forecasting in snow-dominated regions. Current SWE measurement te...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.12.pdf
Keywords: dual polarization, weather radar, lidar, snow water equivalent, swe, airborne snow observatories, aso, machine learning
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Title: BURIED ALIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF AVALANCHE SURVIVORS’ LEARNING EXPERIENCE AFTER AN AVALANCHE ACCIDENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Audun Hetland
Description: Avalanche terrain offers a challenging learning environment due to the potentially misleading and often absent feedback from the terrain itself. This ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, decision-making, learning, experiential learning
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Title: TEACHING AVALANCHE KNOWLEDGE INDIRECTLY: INQUIRING EXPERIENCES FROM OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THE WINTER MOUNTAINS IN NORWEGIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jannicke Høyem
Description: Avalanche courses are typically short, intensive, and loaded with field-specific knowledge. In contrast, higher education allows students for a span o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O13.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche learning, avalanche teaching, practitioner inquiry, friluftsliv, out-door education
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Title: PARTICIPANTS’ SHARED PERSPECTIVES ON A SEASON-LONG AVALANCHE COURSE
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tove I. Dahl, Tarjei Skille, Richard Fjellaksel, Gerit Pfuhl, Tim Dassler, Anonymous Course Participants
Description: What would we find if we dug up what learners think they walk away with after an avalanche course and not just what instructors thought? Often the st...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O13.2.pdf
Keywords: reflection-based learning, reflective practitioner, user involvement, inquiry-based conversation, avalanche course
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Title: CHALLENGES AND PRIORITIES IN AVALANCHE EDUCATION: A SEQUENTIAL MIXED-METHODS STUDY OF NORWEGIAN INSTRUCTORS´ PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tim Dassler, Richard Fjellaksel, Linda Hallandvik, Andrea Mannberg, Tarjei Tveito Skille, Karin Elisabeth Sørlie Street
Description: Avalanche education is critical for safety in winter backcountry recreation, yet little is known about instructors´ perspectives on the teaching proc...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O13.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, learning goals, avalanche instructors, mixed methods, avalanche learning
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Title: SNOW INSTITUTE. A VIRTUAL INSTITUTE TO PROMOTE AVALANCHE AWARENESS EDUCATION TO YOUNGSTERS.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tamara Tschanhenz, Markus Isser, Peter Plattner, Matthias Pramstaller, Maximilian Riml, Daniela Tollinger, Thomas Wanner, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow plays an important economic role in the European Alps, especially for winter tourism. However, snow presents hazards, particularly in the shape ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O13.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche awareness, avalanche education, young avalanche victims, non-profit teaching and learning materials, educational environments
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Title: REFLECTOMETER: A NOVEL TOOL TO BOOST LEARNING IN AVALANCHE COURSES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Richard Fjellaksel , Tim Dassler, Vetle Hofsøy-Woie, Tove I. Dahl
Description: Every avalanche educator wishes for course participants to learn. But do we really know when learning occurs for participants? What could we as inst...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, two-way learning, reflective practice, reflection-based learning, avalanche courses
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Title: UNIVERSITY SNOW SCIENCE COURSES - AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sarah Valent, Nilas Tilo Mikkelsen, Jordy Hendrikx, Holt Hancock, Christopher D’Amboise, Louise Vick, Carly Faber
Description: The Department of Geosciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway offers two snow and avalanche courses to its students. The bachelor course ‘Int...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.5.pdf
Keywords: snow & avalanche education, higher education, teaching methods, learning outcome
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Title: LEARNING ON THE MOUNTAIN: WHAT GETS OUR ATTENTION AND HOW MIGHT REFLECTING ON THAT CHANGE OUR WAYS?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Johanna Granaasen Jørstad, Tove Irene Dahl, Tim Dassler
Description: She sets her poles down, turns her skis, drops with a rush of adrenaline, and floats down the chute. Backcountry skiers in avalanche terrain navigat...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.12.pdf
Keywords: reflective learning, double-loop learning, avalanche education, dislocatory moments, wicked learning environment
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING WITH STATISTICAL METHODS IN NORWAY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Eivind S. Juvik, Anders Aa. Hennum
Description: One important tasks of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) are road management in avalanche prone areas. Many roads are exposed to snow a...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.17.pdf
Keywords: data driven avalanche forecasting, machine learning, statistical methods, data quality, weather stations, avalanche registrations
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN MODELS USED IN OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN SWITZERLAND
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Stephanie Mayer, Cristina Pérez Guillén, Frank Techel, Martin Hendrick, Jürg Schweizer
Description: One of the main challenges in avalanche forecasting is the complexity of the snowpack and its interactions with the environment. Traditional methods r...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, machine learning, data-driven models
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Title: AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: CHANGES IN WET AND DRY SLAB AVALANCHES BASED ON CLIMATE SIMULATIONS OVER SWITZERLAND
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Bert Kruyt, Nander Wever, Stephanie Mayer, Jesus Temprado Vergara, Christoph Schär
Description: To investigate the effect of climate change on snowpack stability we present simulations of past and future snow stratigraphy over Switzerland with th...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O6.04.pdf
Keywords: climate change, avalanche, lwc, machine learning, rain-on-snow
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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: SNOWPACK CHARACTERISTICS AT TRIGGERING LOCATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Jason Konigsberg, Doug Chabot, Ethan Greene
Description: Travelers trigger dry slab avalanches by initiating a crack within a weak layer under a cohesive slab. Understanding the snowpack characteristics at t...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.06.pdf
Keywords: trigger points, stable snowpack, slab, weak layer, machine learning
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Title: AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF SNOW GRAINS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Marc J. Rubin
Description: In this feasibility study, we apply methodologies from computer vision and machine learning to automatically identify microscopic images of snow grain...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.45.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, snow grains, facets, rounds
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