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Title: BACKCOUNTRY TERRAIN USE PATTERNS UNDER VARYING AVALANCHE FORECAST CONDITIONS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: INSIGHTS FROM STRAVA ACTIVITY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marc Pons, Colin Bergeron, Julie Heinrichs
Description: Understanding how backcountry recreationists adjust their terrain choices in response to avalanche hazard remains a key gap in avalanche risk research...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain selection, backcountry users, avalanche problems, mountain parks, crowdsourced recreation data, user-generated content
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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: CONSISTENT (NUMERICAL) APPROACH FOR LARGE SCALE SNOW-AVALANCHE HAZARD UPDATE: APPLICATION TO A POORLY DOCUMENTED AREA LIKE CORSICA ISLAND (FR)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stéphane Roudnitska, Jérôme Bock, Clément Belgodère
Description: The avalanche of Ortiporio (1934), village of Corsica (mountainous island situated in the Mediterranean Sea), caused the death of 37 persons. Despite ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: corsican mountain range, large-scale indicative hazard map, ramms climate change, protective forest effect
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Title: SUPPORTING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE IN MOUNTAIN PROFESSIONALS: EARLY PEER SUPPORT FOLLOWING CRITICAL INCIDENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jan Neuspiel
Description: Mountain professionals, including avalanche forecasters, ski patrollers, mountain guides and helicopter and cat ski operators amongst others work in e...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: critical incident stress management, peer support, mountain operations, psychological resilience, critical incident response
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Title: APPLYING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING TO WILDLIFE ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF DALL'S SHEEP IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Heather K. Thamm, John Sykes, Nicholas L. Fowler, Thomas D. Lohuis, Kyle R. Smith, Erich H. Peitzsch, Todd J. Brinkman, Ophélie H. Couriot
Description: Avalanche hazard has been studied extensively in the context of human risk, but its role in alpine wildlife ecology remains poorly understood. Long-te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.36.pdf
Keywords: alaska, avalanches, avalanche terrain, dall's sheep, hazard mapping, mountain ungulates
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Title: EMPOWERING TEAMS: STRUCTURED RISK MANAGEMENT AND FLUENT LEADERSHIP IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benedikt Friedrich, Stefan Blochum, Silvan Metz
Description: The Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service (Bergwacht Bayern) strives for the safest possible operational environment and the most challenging yet safe trai...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.44.pdf
Keywords: mountain rescue, risk management, decision making
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Title: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR SIMULATING EFFECTS OF AVALANCHES ON MOUNTAIN GOAT POPULATION DYNAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kevin S. White, Taal Levi, Eran Hood, Gabriel J. Wolken, Erich H. Peitzsch, Yves Bühler, Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Chris T. Darimont
Description: Mountain environments with snow avalanche hazard cover about 6% of Earth’s land area and occur on all continents. Whereas human risks associated wi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, alaska, mountain goat, oreamnos americanus, population modeling
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Title: EXPLORING THE USE OF A MULTIVARIATE SNOW INDEX IN THE PYRENEES TO CHARACTERIZE SNOW SEASONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anna Albalat, Laura Trapero , Marc Lemus-Canovas, Marc Pons
Description: In recent decades, snow depth in European mountain regions like the Pyrenees has tended to decrease due to the increase in both temperature and precip...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.3.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, multivariate snow index, mountain areas, winter season, snow variability
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Title: WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO SAVE? A SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL EMBEDEDDNESS PERSPECTIVE ON ‘SAYING NO’ IN EXTREME CONTEXT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Virginie Fernandez, Markus Hällgren
Description: It is taken for granted that first responders (e.g., firefighters, police, and hospital staff) jobs include physical risk. They are assumed to do what...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.5.pdf
Keywords: mountain rescue, ‘saying no’, custodianship, sociological embeddedness
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Title: MOUNTAINSAFETY.INFO – BRIDGING RIGID INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF BEST PRACTICE WITH THE BENEFITS OF A COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Manuel Genswein, MountainSafety.info Workgroup for Avalanche Prevention and Risk Management, MountainSafety.info Workgroup for Mountain Emergency Medicine, MountainSafety.info Workgroup for Safety in Glacier Travel, MountainSafety.info Workgroup for Avalanche Rescue
Description: The constantly increasing level of complexity in research and development of mountain safety related content has led over the course of the last 30 ye...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: mountain safety, cmo, sustainability, collaboration
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Title: A LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK MATRIX BASED ON MODELING TO FORECAST AVALANCHE ACTIVITY ON ROADS.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Carles Garcia-Selles, Sergi Riba, Alberto Mediavilla, Fernando Calvo
Description: A new avalanche warning service to forecast local avalanche risk on mountain roads in Asturias (NW of Spain) is beginning to operate. The main problem...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.09.pdf
Keywords: risk matrix, local forecasting, mountain roads, modeling
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Title: CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS OF AVALANCHE FATALITIES IN JAPAN (1991-2020)
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Azusa Degawa
Description: There have been 179 fatal avalanche accidents in Japan over the past 30 years (1991-2020), resulting in 274 fatalities. Of the fatal accidents, 85% oc...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche accident statistics, mountain recreational activities
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Title: Protection of high mountain huts against avalanche hazard: a case study at Pavé lake, French Alps
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Thierry Faug, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
Description: By contrast to buildings situated in valley bottoms, high mountain huts may be threatened by strenuous avalanche activity. This poses specific enginee...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mountain hut, remote area, stochastic-numerical simulations, protection.
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Title: Community Snow Observations (CSO): A Citizen Science Campaign to Validate Snow Remote Sensing Products
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel Wolken, David Hill, Ryan Crumley, Anthony Arendt, Jonah Joughin, Landung Setiawan
Description: The ability to quantify seasonal water retention and storage in mountain snow packs has implications for an array of important topics, including forec...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O05.3.pdf
Keywords: citizen science, crowd-sourced data, snow distribution, snow hydrology, remote sensing, mountain hub.
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Title: Estimation of accumulation from snow avalanches on the mountain glaciers
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anton Lazarev, Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Anton Komarov, Sergey Sokratov
Description: Snow avalanches redistribute snow from the top of the mountain ridges down to the valley bottoms, which can be occupied by glaciers. The contribution ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accumulation, mountain glacier, numerical modeling, gis, ramms.
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