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- Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
- Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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- Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham
- Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure
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- Title: Gas Diffusion in Wet Avalanche Debris Pertaining to Search and Rescue Dogs
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jocelyn M. Cramer, Eeva Latosuo, Patrick Sullivan
- Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are an effective way to recover subjects that have been buried in an avalanche and cannot be located with avalanche t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche debris, search and rescue dogs, gas diffusion
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- Title: Triage Strategies for Multiple Avalanche Burials – a Monte Carlo Simulation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Settings with multiple avalanche burials and a limited number of rescuers require triage strategies, i.e. guidelines for rescuers as to where to devot...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, monte carlo simulation, triage, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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- Title: Probability of Detection and Search Tactical Procedures in Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Manuel Genswein
- Description: The search for a missing person is a race against the clock as survival chances drop very rapidly. The challenge for rescue is to find the proper bala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probability of detection, survival chances
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- Title: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
- Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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- Title: The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Albert Lunde, Ove Njå
- Description: In Norway, snow avalanches hitting roads are a considerable safety challenge for the rescue services. Previous studies have given rise to wondering ab...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk management, reliability, risk indicators, bayesian belief networks
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- Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
- Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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- Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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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: Case Study of Distracting Smells: Assessing Avalanche Rescue Dogs' Ability to Perform with Contaminants on Site
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Molly Schouweiler, Eeva Latosuo, Paul Brusseau
- Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are efficient in locating buried humans in avalanche debris when alternative rescue techniques fail. It is poorly und...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.13.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, contaminants, scent discrimination
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- Title: Being Prepared for Low Frequency Major Avalanche Rescues
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Donald Bogie, Andrew L. Hobman
- Description: From a risk and search management perspective, an avalanche Search and Rescue (SAR) response contains many factors that increase the complexity and ri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.16.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, avalanche site control, training
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- Title: Body Positions of Buried Avalanche Victims
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Daniel K. Kornhall, Spencer Logan, Thomas Dolven
- Description: The body position of a buried avalanche victim can complicate rescuer's initial medical management. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center maintain...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.21.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, avalanche burial, avalanche rescue, prehospital care, wilderness medicine
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- Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
- Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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- Title: Nerf Ball: Avalanche Rescue Training Method
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Halsted Morris
- Description: As advanced as modern digital transceivers are people still need to practice in how to use their transceiver. Having realistic practice in how to sear...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.48.pdf
- Keywords: transceiver, training, nerf ball, bash ball
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