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- Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
- Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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- Title: FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES OF AVALANCHE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - 1950 TO 2026
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Spencer Logan, Joe Obad, Brendan Martland, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: People working in avalanche safety are exposed to significant hazards at work. Despite the potential for harm, fatal workplace accidents involving ava...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.5.pdf
- Keywords: worker safety, risk management, fatal occupational injuries, avalanche accidents
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- Title: IS YOUR GUIDE CERTIFIED? THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE CANADIAN MOTORIZED BACKCOUNTRY GUIDES ASSOCIATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Curtis Pawliuk, Steve Scott, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Formally trained, coached, and assessed competencies are defining characteristics of professional guiding practice. The primary responsibility of a gu...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.6.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry guiding, snowmobiling, risk management
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- Title: BEING DIFFICULT: STRATEGIES FOR ENCOURAGING DISSENT FROM COLLEAGUES AND STAFF IN THE A.M. FORECAST MEETING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jenna Malone
- Description: Cognitive science and psychology have long explored how individuals can ignore or reinterpret crucial information to reinforce their existing beliefs....
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.7.pdf
- Keywords: dissent, psychological safety, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, crew resource management, groupthink
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- Title: THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Peter Macpherson, Scott Thumlert
- Description: Managing exposure to avalanche hazard through terrain selection is the primary avalanche risk mitigation strategy in winter backcountry guiding. The r...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.3.pdf
- Keywords: run list, run coding, mechanized skiing, canadian mountain holidays, terrain selection, avalanche risk management, decision-making
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- Title: A CLOSER LOOK AT SLOPE ANGLES OF ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED PERSISTENT AND DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Roger Atkins, John Sykes, Nicholas Rigby, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Persistent slab avalanches remain a challenge for backcountry avalanche risk management. Of the 222 fatal avalanche accidents in Canada with known wea...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, perception gap, lingering instability, low angle avalanches
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- Title: POWERLESS: ANATOMY OF AN HISTORIC STORM CYCLE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Robert Griffith, Mike Rheam
- Description: The second-largest storm in the history of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) occurred in February 2017. Referred to as the "Powerline Storm", this 1...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.2.pdf
- Keywords: incidents and case studies, operations and program management, ski area, storm cycle, atmospheric river
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- Title: MOUNTAIN RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PRO ATHLETES AND FILM ENTORAUGE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: John Buffery
- Description: The objectives of the winter backcountry entertainment film industry are to capture unique moments of athletes riding in consequential terrain and to ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.3.pdf
- Keywords: risk maturity, iso 31000 risk management, self-rescue, risk communication
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- Title: THE AVALANCHE IMPACT SCALE: A QUALITATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR FORECASTING AND RECORDING IMPACTS ON INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMUNITIES AND WORKSITE SAFETY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Bree Stefanson, Ryan Boyle
- Description: Effective risk management in avalanche-prone terrain requires a clear understanding of how avalanche activity interacts with specific elements at risk...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.6.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, recording, communication, risk, management, standardization
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- Title: WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Leonie Kommerell, Håvard Boutera Toft, Gustav Pless, Karin Bergbjørn
- Description: During periods of high/extreme avalanche hazard, decision makers need to identify which buildings may be exposed and where field assessments or evacua...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche exposure, emergency management, potential release areas, runout modelling, decision support, building prioritization
- View additional details about WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
- Title: AN INTEGRATED MULTI-INSTRUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MILANO CORTINA 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Diana Lazzeri
- Description: Avalanche risk management in complex alpine environments increasingly relies on the integration of heterogeneous data sources and modelling approaches...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management; multi-instrument monitoring; snowpack; prism; avaframe; sar remote sensing; winter olympics
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- Title: EXPERIENCES ON EFFECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING IN AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Holt Hancock, Piotr Kupiszewski, Steinar Bakkehøi
- Description: Avalanche warning as a mitigation measure was introduced in Norway when the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute's (NGI) avalanche research station at Fon...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche warning, risk management, risk communication
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- Title: IMPROVING WORKER SAFETY AND ACCESS TIMING WITH AVALANCHE RADAR IN A COMPLEX SKI RESORT: CRANS-MONTANA-AMINONA, SWITZERLAND
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Fabrice Meyer, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
- Description: The Crans-Montana-Aminona (CMA) ski resort lies on the southern side of the Alpine main ridge in Valais, Switzerland, on predominantly south-facing te...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.6.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, remote avalanche control, worker safety, ski resort access management
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- Title: THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING GLACIATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN AT A SKI AREA: LESSONS FROM BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Koshure, Nicole, Gould, Brian, Campbell, Cam, Tessier, Alexis
- Description: Whistler Blackcomb (WB), the largest ski resort in North America, contains glaciated avalanche terrain, including the Horstman and Blackcomb Glaciers....
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.7.pdf
- Keywords: glacial recession, climate change, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, risk management, remote sensing, adaptive risk management
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- Title: SLIDING SHORT: AN ARGUMENT FOR MISSION-ORIENTED AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael Ackerman, Mauri DiMeo
- Description: Military units move through avalanche terrain under conditions that fall outside the scope of recreational avalanche education. Missions occur in fore...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.26.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, military curriculum, risk management, tactical training
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