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- Title: THE IMPACT OF THE HELISKIING INDUSTRY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO AVALANCHE RESEARCH
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Halsted "Hacksaw" Morris
- Description: The early history of the heliskiing industry and its contribution to avalanche research.
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.1.pdf
- Keywords: history of heliskiing, avalanche research
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- Title: ARE YOU BEHAVING OUT THERE?: STUDENT REPORTED BEHAVIOR CHANGES AFTER RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN ALASKA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael A. Kerst, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Formal avalanche education has existed in Alaska since 1976. The Alaska Avalanche School (AAS) is the primary provider of this education and serves bo...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, alaska, backcountry behaviors, recreational courses
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- Title: A STUDY OF REPEATING PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES ALONG THE PARK CITY RIDGELINE: THE EFFECTS OF REMOVING NEW SNOW ABOVE A WEAK LAYER
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael Craig
- Description: Slide paths containing shallow snow depths can present a more unpredictable hazard. When a thick slab is unable to form above a persistent weak layer ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.11.pdf
- Keywords: slab formation, shallow snowpack, repeater slide-path, persistent weak layer
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- Title: CAUSE OF DEATH IN AVALANCHES IN COLORADO, USA: A 31-YEAR REVIEW
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Dale Wang, Alison Sheets, Ethan Greene
- Description: We examined the causes of death for 178 avalanche fatalities in Colorado, USA, between 1995 and 2026. We utilized data from the Colorado Avalanche Inf...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.12.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche fatalities, avalanche accidents, asphyxia, trauma
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- Title: A PROCESS FOR MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED UPDATES TO RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE CURRICULUM TOOLS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Emma Walker, Ron Funderburke, Kelly McNeil, Aaron Ball
- Description: The AIARE fieldbook is the primary tool instructors use to deliver AIARE recreational avalanche courses, as well as a post-course planning and referen...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.13.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, program evaluation, action-oriented learning outcomes, educational best practices, pedagogy
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- Title: CASE STUDY OF A SLUSHFLOW IN SKARMODAL, NORWAY, IN 2010
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Slushflows are a well-known hazard in Arctic regions and, to a lesser extent, in alpine environments. With ongoing climate change, conditions that pro...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.15.pdf
- Keywords: slush-flow; observations; dynamics
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- Title: TOWARDS A TECHNICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCHEME FOR AVALANCHE SIZE CLASSIFICATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Anselm Koehler, Betty Sovilla, Peter Gauer, Scott Thumlert
- Description: The 1981 Avalanche Atlas is a landmark achievement in snow and avalanche science. It provides a unified, multilingual framework for describing and cla...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche atlas, avalanche size, avalanche classification, avalanche dynamics, iacs
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- Title: ENABLING AVALANCHE VICTIM LOCALIZATION THROUGH LORA TECHNOLOGY: THE LORASNOW PROJECT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michele Girolami, Andrea Berton, Fabio Mavilia, Annalisa Maggini, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Renato Zasso
- Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations in snowy environments are particularly challenging due to time constraints and harsh conditions. Climate change has...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.18.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, sar, lora, iot, uav, localization
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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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- Title: ADAPTING AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPPING TO A CHANGING CLIMATE – EMERGING PRACTICAL APPROACHES AND UNCERTAINTIES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Simon Grüter, Flurina Schnider, Damian Steffen, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Avalanche hazard mapping in Switzerland is based on long-established regulations and methods and provides a valuable basis for avalanche risk manageme...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.20.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, hazard mapping, case study, avalanche path, wet snow avalanche
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- Title: ASSIMILATING LIDAR AND IN-SITU COMMUNITY SNOW MEASUREMENTS TO IMPROVE SNOWPACK ESTIMATES ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: David F. Hill, Zachary Butler, Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel Wolken
- Description: Seasonal snowpack supplies a large fraction of water resources across the Western United States, making accurate estimates of snow distribution and me...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.21.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modeling, lidar, data assimilation, community science
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- Title: BEYOND LEVEL 2: EMERGING MODELS FOR ADVANCED RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE LEARNING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke
- Description: Recreational avalanche education provides foundational knowledge, rescue skills, terrain management, and decision frameworks, but course completion al...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.22.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision capability, transfer, calibration, discipline-specific education, advanced recreational education
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- Title: BEYOND ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL: STANDARDIZING AVALANCHE EDUCATION ACROSS BACKCOUNTRY DISCIPLINES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Duncan Lee
- Description: Recreational avalanche education in North America uses national and provider-based systems to teach hazard recognition, terrain evaluation, decision-m...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, competency, standardization, progression, quality assurance, discipline-specific training
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- Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA APENNINES: A STATISTICAL EMPIRICAL APPROACH BASED ON THE RUN-OUT RATIO
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Sabbadini R., Cau M., Anfossi G., Fanari F., Dondi C., Mazzini E., Chiambretti I.
- Description: In this study, a statistical-empirical methodology was developed to rapidly identify potential avalanche hazard zones in the Emilia-Romagna Apennines ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.24.pdf
- Keywords: potential release area (pra), avalanche hazard mapping, northern apennines, run-out ratio, gumbel distribution, risk mitigation, civil protection, gis
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