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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
- View additional details about THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
- 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
- View additional details about CONSISTENT (NUMERICAL) APPROACH FOR LARGE SCALE SNOW-AVALANCHE HAZARD UPDATE: APPLICATION TO A POORLY DOCUMENTED AREA LIKE CORSICA ISLAND (FR)
- 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
- View additional details about APPLYING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING TO WILDLIFE ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF DALL'S SHEEP IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA
- 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
- View additional details about EMPOWERING TEAMS: STRUCTURED RISK MANAGEMENT AND FLUENT LEADERSHIP IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE
- 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
- View additional details about AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR SIMULATING EFFECTS OF AVALANCHES ON MOUNTAIN GOAT POPULATION DYNAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
- 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
- View additional details about EXPLORING THE USE OF A MULTIVARIATE SNOW INDEX IN THE PYRENEES TO CHARACTERIZE SNOW SEASONS
- 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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