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- Title: THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jake M. Hutchinson
- Description: This exploratory survey began with a simple operational question: when avalanche professionals first build a hazard picture, does the initial forecast...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, professional intuition, recognition, decision making, training
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- Title: THE DANGER ZONE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Steve Conger, Colin Zacharias
- Description: Too many avalanche workers have made the decision to position themselves or coworkers, helicopters, snowcats, or vehicles, in the run out of an avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.5.pdf
- Keywords: risk, relative size, destructive size, forecasting, professional incidents, near-miss, full-extent
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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: UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING A PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE TRAINING PROGRAM: INITIAL FINDINGS FROM THE AIARE PRO 1
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Anne St. Clair, Emma Walker, Sean Zimmerman-Wall
- Description: Professional avalanche training plays a central role in preparing workers for avalanche operations, yet little research has examined its effectiveness...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.27.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, professional training, program evaluation
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- Title: TO PROBE OR NOT TO PROBE: EVALUATING FINE SEARCH STANDARDS AND THE ROLE OF PROBING IN SHALLOW BURIAL PROFESSIONAL RESCUE SCENARIOS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ben Merkle
- Description: The first thirty minutes of the avalanche burial survival curve are the steepest, and even small time savings in gaining airway access can improve pat...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, professional rescue, shallow burial, probe, fine search
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- Title: PROFESSIONAL VISION IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL NORWEGIAN SKI AND MOUNTAIN GUIDE EDUCATORS.
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Mr Sigmund Fredrik Andersen, Dr Marcel Reinhold, Mr. Carsten Gade Rolland
- Description: Despite growing interest and advancements in research on human factors in avalanche terrain over the last decade, there remains a need for deeper unde...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.4.pdf
- Keywords: ethnography, professional vision, discursive practices, guide education, decision-making in avalanche terrain.
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- Title: MOVING MOUNTAINS WITH MENTORSHIP: INVESTING IN EMERGING PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE SNOWMOBILE PRACTITIONERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Jennifer L. Coulter
- Description: Mentorship is an indispensable and well-established pathway to success in the avalanche industry, yet snowmobilers face barriers not typically encount...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.03.pdf
- Keywords: mentorship, avalanche, snowmobile, professional, inclusive
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- Title: A college-level training program for avalanche safety workers
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Roger Coit, Kelly Elder, Ethan Greene, Rebecca Hodgetts, Brian Lazar, John MacKinnon, Blase Reardon
- Description: Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is a higher education system with 11 campuses serving over 30,000 km2 of north-central Colorado. The college offers tw...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, professional avalanche worker training, avalanche certification
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- Title: Mapping Avalanche Mentorship in the US: A Visualization of the Mentorship Network Amongst US Avalanche Professionals
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sean C. Johnson, Eeva Latosuo, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
- Description: Mentorship in the avalanche industry is a sparsely researched topic, yet anecdotally avalanche professionals and their workplaces typically talk about...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.44.pdf
- Keywords: mentorship, mapping, avalanche, avalanche association, professional development
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- Title: The Canadian Approach to Professional Avalanche Training
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emily L. Grady
- Description: Canada is in a unique position with: low-density populations scattered over large mountainous areas of differing snow conditions; limited access to go...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-31.pdf
- Keywords: professional avalanche training, canada, avalanche industry, avalanche education
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- Title: 1985 – 2009 Twenty-Five Years of Avalanche Accidents in Italy
- Date: 2009
- Authors: M. Valt, I. Chiambretti, R. Zasso
- Description: Italy’s avalanche accidents data bank was carried out by AINEVA and stores more
than 800 events between 1985 and 2009 period. Data bank files ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0686-0690.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, danger degree, mountain professional, rescue
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- Title: Emergency Medical Training of Avalanche Professionals: Raising the Standards for Remote Care in Canada
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Dr. Renata Lewis
- Description: In Canada, emergency medical training of avalanche professionals who work remotely (guides, park wardens, search and rescue technicians) is typically ...
- Object ID: P__8067.pdf
- Keywords: emergency medical training, avalanche rescue, remote medicine, pre-hospital training, avalanche professional training, first aid
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- Title: Avalanche Training at NOLS - The State of Our Program
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Allen O'Bannon, Don Sharaf
- Description: The National Outdoor leadership School (NOlS) has been operating since 1965 and
running winter courses since the winter of 1970. Winter courses run i...
- Object ID: issw-2000-543-550.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, nols, professional avalanche training, outdoor education
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