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Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Emery L. Rheam
Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jerry Isaak
Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...
Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf
Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks
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Title: Know Before You Go Revision: an Introductory Tool for Influencing Backcountry Behavior
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Craig Gordon, Paul Diegel, Trent Meisenheimer, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Mary Clayton, Aaron Carlson, Bruce Tremper, Mark Staples, Karl Birkland, Tim Bennett
Description: The open-source Know Before You Go (KBYG) avalanche awareness program provides a 50 minute introduction to avalanche safety for motorized and non-moto...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.01.pdf
Keywords: awareness, education, introductory, video, school, know before you go
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Title: The Gear Heads – Motor Specific AVY Training
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Brian Lundstedt
Description: In 2012 an avalanche accident left me shattered. After losing one brother, and nearly both, I quickly realized that we knew nothing. After 20+ yrs of ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.02.pdf
Keywords: motorized, snowmobile, snowbike, avalanche education, american institute of avalanche research and education (aiare)
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Title: Learn – E-learning Lessons About Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Armin Rempfler
Description: "Learning by doing" is an obvious credo for every educator. In avalanche terrain, we do this most of the time. However, learning about avalanches also...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.03.pdf
Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, e-learning, avalanche danger assessment, avalanche awareness
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting in the Central Asian Countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Doug Chabot, Aysha Kaba
Description: Home of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Pamir mountains, Central Asia has a serious avalanche hazard. A single 2012 avalanche cycle resulted in over 100...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.04.pdf
Keywords: focus, avalanches, community training, weather monitoring, education
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Title: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault
Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education
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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: The Norwegian Avalanche Science Center – Focus on Human Factors
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Espen Nordahl, Carsten Rolland, Rune Engeset, Audun Hetland, Sigmund Andersen, Bjørn Michalesen, Markus Landrø
Description: UiT The Arctic University of Norway is establishing The Avalanche Science Center (ASC) during the period 2015-2017 with the vision No Avalanche Fa...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.17.pdf
Keywords: no avalanche fatalities, human factor research, dissemination of knowledge, preventive work and education
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Title: Tracking Snowmobilers to Understand Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
Description: This paper will present an analysis of snowmobile tracks from the 2015-16 winter season. Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increa...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: snowmobiles, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, education
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Title: Herding Cats: Increasing Public Avalanche Awareness at Copper Mountain Resort
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reed B. Ryan, Max J. Tyler
Description: During the 2015-2016 season, Copper Mountain Resort (CMR), in Summit County, Colorado, introduced a program encouraging guests to wear avalanche beaco...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, inbounds avalanche, avalanche education, avalanche awareness
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Observer Corps: Safety, Quality, Training, Procedures and Culture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Landrø, Rune Engeset, Andreas Haslestad, Jostein Aasen, Knut I. Orset
Description: Field observers are crucial to secure a steady flow of high quality observations from the field, which is necessary to provide a reliable avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, observer training, safety
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Title: After the Avalanche: Protocols for Evacuation and Medical Treatment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephen J. Christie
Description: The focus in recreational avalanche education has improved over the last decade with initiatives related to group communication, group leadership, saf...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: medical treatment, education, evacuation, first aid
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