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Title: Exemplary Actions of Education for Increasing the Resilience of Communities to Natural Hazards in High Mountain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Paola Dellavedova, Océane Vibert, Luca Pitet, Jean Pierre Fosson, Valerio Segor, Alessandro Benati, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Nathalie Durand, Antoine Brulport
Description: In response to actual climatic variations and global warming, highlighted by the scorching summers of 2003 and 2015, major alpine faces within the Mo...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering, natural hazards, education, resilience, risks, prévriskhautemontagne project
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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: Evaluation of Protection Measures Against Avalanches in Forested Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Thomas Feistl, Armin Fischer, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
Description: Small to medium sized avalanches release in forest gaps and open forest above roads and infrastructure in the Prealps regularly each winter. Avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forest, public safety, modelling
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Title: Direct and Indirect Avalanche Experiences Among Backcountry Skiers: Relationships with Risk Perception and Use of Safety Gear
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Davide Marengo, Paola Dellavedova, Maria G. Monaci, Renato Miceli
Description: A relevant factor that may affect risk perception and behaviors related to natural hazard is personal experience. Findings on recreational sports (e.g...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche experience, backcountry skiing, risk perception
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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: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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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: Climate Change Impacts on Utah's Central Wasatch Snowpacks
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rand Decker, Hugo Froyland
Description: Climate change has resulted in winters that are much different than in previous decades. For the better part of 20 years, the central and southern Roc...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.09.pdf
Keywords: snowpack distribution, climate change, snowmelt, drought
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Title: Distance between Electronic Devices and Avalanche Transceivers on a Professional Ski Patrol
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Shawn Orloff
Description: Cellular phones and two-way radios are indispensable communication tools for professional ski patrollers. It has been well established that electronic...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver, electronic interference
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Title: Two Decades of a Winter Backcountry Permit System - is This the 'Right' Tool to Encourage Avalanche Awareness, Education, and Responsibility?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Patrick M. McGervey
Description: In Arizona, the Kachina Peaks rise to an elevation of over 3,800 meters providing a stark contrast to a relatively flat and arid landscape below. Slop...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.40.pdf
Keywords: permit system, education, public safety
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Title: Avalanche Consequence Lesson Plan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Harlan L. Sheppard
Description: This poster presentation will be on teaching Avalanche Consequence. I will introduce a new lesson plan that departs from standard techniques. The main...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche education, safety
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Title: The North Rockies Mountain Snowmobilers in the Absence of a Daily Public Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Andrew J. Duncan, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: British Columbia's mountainous topography and weather makes it a rewarding region for winter backcountry travel. Studies acknowledge that less is know...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletins, north rockies, snowmobilers, avalanche risk culture, public safety
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Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elodie Magnier
Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since 1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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