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- Title: ADAPTING THE RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT (RADEMS) TOOL FOR AVALANCHE HAZARD AND TERRAIN EVALUATION IN U.S. SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jennifer A. Reddy
- Description: Search and rescue (SAR) teams in the United States are increasingly called to respond in avalanche terrain, yet most operate without a standardized sc...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.6.pdf
- Keywords: radems, avalanche search and rescue (avsar), ates, dangerator, risk assessment.
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- Title: A CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SITE-SPECIFIC ROAD AVALANCHE WARNING IN NORWAY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Emil Solbakken, Halgeir Dahle, Tore Humstad, Njål Farestveit, Jens Øyen Tveit, Eivind Schnell Juvik, Dag Theodor Røsvik Andreassen
- Description: Site-specific avalanche warning for roads is a risk-reducing measure that combines an assessment of avalanche likelihood with an impact-based assessme...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.1.pdf
- Keywords: site-specific avalanche warning, consequence assessment, road avalanche risk, residual risk, impact-based forecasting
- View additional details about A CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SITE-SPECIFIC ROAD AVALANCHE WARNING IN NORWAY
- 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
- View additional details about THE AVALANCHE IMPACT SCALE: A QUALITATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR FORECASTING AND RECORDING IMPACTS ON INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMUNITIES AND WORKSITE SAFETY
- Title: REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Karsten Müller, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer, Philip A. Ebert, Ben Reuter, Veronika Krieger, Igor Chiambretti, Anne Dufour, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda
- Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the central framework for communicating regional avalanche danger in Europe. Since its introduction in 1...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.3.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale; avalanche hazard; risk communication; avalanche forecasting; eaws; european avalanche warning services
- View additional details about REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
- Title: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Stan Nowak, Ethan Greene
- Description: Uncertainty is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet public avalanche forecasts have not communicated it as consistently as other hazard chara...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research
- View additional details about CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
- Title: A SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING AVALANCHE RISK REDUCTION INTERVENTIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Kelly McNeil
- Description: In response to emerging problems or opportunities, such as avalanche incidents or technological advances, avalanche safety service providers face deci...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk reduction; intervention design and evaluation; decision-making
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- Title: HOW DO PEOPLE READ THE FORECAST? TWO SEASONS OF SECTION-LEVEL DIGITAL ANALYTICS IN CANADA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Stan Nowak, Nick Rigby, Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Understanding how recreationists use avalanche forecasts is critical to ensure their effectiveness. While previous research has largely relied on self...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.6.pdf
- Keywords: behavioural telemetry, information foraging, risk communication, public avalanche forecasts
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- 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
- View additional details about AN INTEGRATED MULTI-INSTRUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MILANO CORTINA 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
- 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
- View additional details about EXPERIENCES ON EFFECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING IN AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
- 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: AVALANCHE FORECASTING FOR ICE CLIMBERS: ESTIMATING EXPOSURE AND MANAGING OPERATIONAL UNCERTAINTY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tim Ricci
- Description: Avalanche bulletins give us the regional picture, but ice-climbing decisions are made at one climb, one start zone, one runout, and often one short se...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ice climbing, spatial scale, uncertainty, exposure, operational risk
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- Title: HUMAN FACTOR SOLUTIONS FOR RECREATION IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN: DESIGN INPUTS FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Sara Boilen
- Description: When avalanche accidents happen to parties under conditions they were trained to avoid, suspected causes are frequently gathered under the term human ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.4.pdf
- Keywords: human factors, safety-ii, mixed-methods, emergent risk, intervention design
- View additional details about HUMAN FACTOR SOLUTIONS FOR RECREATION IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN: DESIGN INPUTS FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS
- Title: PROTECTING GUIDE JUDGMENT: OPERATIONAL RISK TOLERANCE DURING PERIODS OF UNCERTAINTY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Erin Tierney
- Description: Expert judgment is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet the experience and intuition that build that judgement is developed from repeated exp...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.6.pdf
- Keywords: risk tolerance, decision-making, uncertainty, organizational change, intuition.
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- Title: AVSAR MINDSETS: A COMPANION FRAMEWORK FOR THE AVGAR
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael Ackerman
- Description: The AvGAR is a decision-making tool for assessing and deploying avalanche search and rescue (AvSAR) missions, adapted from the United States Coast Gua...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.19.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, decision making, risk assessment, human factors, search and rescue, mindsets
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- Title: WILDFIRE-DRIVEN INCREASES IN AVALANCHE HAZARD: MECHANISMS, CANADIAN CASE STUDIES, AND A POST-WILDFIRE AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Jillian Harvey, Cam Campbell, Marie-Pierre Rogeau, Brian Gould
- Description: Wildfire-induced forest disturbance in snow-dominated mountain regions can significantly alter snowpack processes and increase avalanche hazard. The r...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.2.pdf
- Keywords: post wildfire geohazard assessment, snow avalanche risk assessment, protective forest, burn severity, wildfire
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