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Title: Attributes of Avalanche Education Seminar Participants and Trends in the Experience of Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Azusa Degawa
Description: In the improvement of avalanche safety countermeasures and avalanche education, it is crucial to understand the characteristics of the participants. A...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche incidents, backcountry users
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Title: A New Edutainment Tested to Rise Awareness of the Dangers of Snow Avalanches in Susceptible Snow Activities
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Luis G. López-Cobo
Description: Raising awareness of snow avalanche danger has become a compulsory step when taking security measures, starting with potential mountain visitors. Sinc...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.32.pdf
Keywords: learning, board game, education, serious game, game design, educational game
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Title: Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Neil S. Geisler, Karl R. Geisler
Description: Avalanche course curriculum tends to focus on three main areas: the technical and observable underpinnings of avalanche formation and release, decisio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, decision making, risk, behavior change
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Title: Learning From Authentic Situations – Description of Good Learning Situations in Avalanche Education in Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Vegard Vereide, Odd Lennart Vikene
Description: Avalanche education is important for professionals that are exposed in avalanche terrain with responsibility for other people's life. In a process to ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.35.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, learning, situation awareness, leadership
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Title: 3-2-1, Dropping! Harnessing Freeride Athletes as Avalanche Ambassadors
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bruce Edgerly
Description: A study by Kruse et. al. (ISSW 2014) identified peer-to-peer communication as the key to influencing 17-to-30 year-olds riding in lift-accessed backco...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.36.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, lift-accessed backcountry skiing, sidecountry, freeriding, social media
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Title: Reviewing the Prescott College Avalanche Forecasting Course: Past, Present, and Future
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alyssa Young, Philip Straub
Description: Prescott College's Avalanche Forecasting course is a three-week, 4 credit-hour field course focusing on snow science and avalanche forecasting for bac...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.37.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche education, aaa level 2, prescott college
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Title: Avalanche Awareness Raising in Finland - Development of Avalanche Education Curricula
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Eeva Mäkelä, Jussi Muittari, Kai Lehtonen
Description: Finland is a country of 5.4 million inhabitants in Northern Europe. Backcountry skiing and free skiing have gained popularity over the past 10 years a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, finland
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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: Re-thinking the Avalanche Education Curriculum for Snowmobilers
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: The BC Coroner's avalanche death review panel (British Columbia Coroners Service, 2009) made fifteen recommendations aimed at cultivating a culture of...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.41.pdf
Keywords: snowmobile, education, terrain management
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Title: The Avalanche Puzzle
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Mark Kelly
Description: The Avalanche puzzle is an educational tool that is focused on engaging demographics of the public that would not normally seek out formal avalanche e...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.42.pdf
Keywords: education, tools, puzzle
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Title: A Detailed Framework of the Snow and Avalanche Dynamics Class at the University of Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steven Clark
Description: Traditional certification-based avalanche education is often completed in short, intensive time periods that leaves many students wanting more detaile...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.43.pdf
Keywords: education, 5e instructional model, fieldwork, semester
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Title: The Avalanche Science Centre – The Science Programme
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rune Engeset, Audun Hetland, Carsten Roland, Sigmund Andersen, Yngve Birkelund, Matthias Forwick, Markus Landrø, Andrea Mannberg, Bjørn Michaelsen
Description: UiT The Arctic University of Norway is establishing the Avalanche Science Centre during the period 2015-2017. The mission of the Centre is to provide ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.45.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, human factor, avalanches
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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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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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