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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
- Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense Mounds in the Bull of the Woods Avalanche Path, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Brian Gorsage, Rod Newcomb, Lee Elder, Kelly Elder, Galen Richards
- Description: On February 16, 2014 a large natural avalanche (HS-N-R5-D5) released in the Bull of the Woods avalanche path at milepost 156.5 on US 191 in the Hoback...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: passive mitigation, defense mounds, berms, dendrochronology
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- Title: Snow Pressures on a Rigid Snow Supporting Structure at the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Sean Strain, Megan Stevens
- Description: Mitigation of avalanche hazard to roadways within the Western United States has historically been conducted by means of artificial release of explosiv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow supporting structures, mitigation
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- Title: A Proposed Paradigm for Advancing Human Factors Research: Linking Behavioral and Avalanche Scientific Disciplines
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Keith Gale, Dale Atkins, Iain Stewart-Patterson, Benjamin Zweifel, Bruce Tremper, Baruch Fischoff, Michael Jenkins, Rashaad Jones, Joseph Keebler, Moin Rahman, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Mark Borsuk, Magda Osman, Alan Sanfey, Brenda Dervin, Karlene Roberts, Ed Carlson, Mike Laney, Tim Bennett, Kenneth Perez, Taylor Barr
- Description: The avalanche industry understands that to save lives, we need to understand human behavior. The scientific discipline most directly affiliated with h...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.07.pdf
- Keywords: research roadmap
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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- Title: Design and Operation of Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) - a Best-Practice Example in the Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen
- Description: This paper gives insights in how to design and operate Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) from the initial project planning to the operational av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.48.pdf
- Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, risk management, design and operation
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- Title: Measuring Avalanche Risk and Level of Service for a Transportation Network – a Practical Approach
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve Conger
- Description: This paper describes innovative metrics to explore the traffic service quality experienced by highway travelers as a result of avalanche risk mitigati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.49.pdf
- Keywords: planning risk assessment, highways, ahi, uncertainty, hazard rating, racs, integral avalanche protection, calibrated probabilities
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- Title: Design and Testing of Blast Shield for Avalanche Control used by the Colorado Department of Transportation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Vilem Petr, Eduardo Lozano
- Description: An accidental explosion took place in March 2014 while performing an avalanche control operation in Loveland, Colorado. After the unfortunate events, ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.51.pdf
- Keywords: barrier, blast wave, fragmentation, high explosives, safety
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- Title: Loveland Pass Avalanche Mitigation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Ethan Greene, Raymond Mumford, Tyler Weldon, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud
- Description: Close to Denver, Loveland Pass is part of the route that provides access to some famous ski resorts such as Vail and Keystone and is among of the more...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.51.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche mitigation, loveland pass, protection strategy
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- Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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- Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
- Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
- Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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- Title: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
- Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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- Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
- Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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