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Title: A PROCESS FOR MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED UPDATES TO COURSE LEADER TRAINING CURRICULUM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Funderburke, Emma Walker
Description: The American Institute for Avalanche Research & Education (AIARE) trains avalanche practitioners to effectively teach recreational students. In this m...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, program evaluation, educational best practices, pedagogy, operational leadership
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Title: AVALANCHE RESCUE VR: IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING FOR COMPANION RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Sitar, Anna-Lena Hetzenauer, Christopher Marquardt, Paul Mair
Description: Companion rescue remains the single most critical factor in surviving avalanche burials, where the first ten minutes offer a survival probability of a...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, virtual reality, companion rescue, procedural training, user analytics
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Title: SMALL-AVALANCHE EXPERIMENTS IN NISEKO, JAPAN: TRIALS AND RESULTS 2016–2025
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Kouichi Nishimura, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshihiko Saito, Hirofumi Niiya, Sojiro Sunako, Kae Tsunematsu, Ryo Honda, Shinichiro Horikawa, Koji Fujita, Tsubasa Okaze, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Dieter Issler, Piotr Kupiszewski, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Anselm Köhler, Shoichi Mori, Kazuyuki Fujita, Akio Shinya
Description: Small-avalanche experiments were conducted in the Niseko-Annupuri mountain range in Japan from 2016 to 2019 and in 2025 to obtain small avalanche dyna...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.40.pdf
Keywords: small avalanche, avalanche experiment, sensor
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Title: TOWARDS A MICROSTRUCTURE-INFORMED REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Francesca Carletti, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Florian Rheinschmidt, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Compilations of the mechanical properties of snow often exhibit scatter spanning orders of magnitude. The resulting uncertainty poses a significant ch...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.41.pdf
Keywords: snow slab avalanches, snow mechanics, weak layers, microstructure, strength, stiffness
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Title: SNOW-AVALANCHE PROTECTION MEASURES PUT TO TEST IN SEVERAL AVALANCHE CYCLES IN NW- AND N-ICELAND IN MARCH 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Harpa Grímsdóttir, Tómas Jóhannesson, Óliver Hilmarsson
Description: In response to catastrophic avalanche accidents in Icelandic settlements in 1995, a government programme was initiated to build protection measures fo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection measures, avalanche dams, avalanche cycles
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Title: FROM THE CHIC-CHOCS TO THE SEA-TO-SKY CORRIDOR: BACKCOUNTRY USER PREPAREDNESS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Élodie Brousseau-Gaumond
Description: Backcountry ski touring and splitboarding participation continues to grow across North America, raising the question of how preparedness is expressed ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.43.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreation, avalanche safety, preparedness, avalanche bulletin comprehension, human factors, sea-to-sky corridor
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Title: THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRY ON THE GAS DYNAMICS IN AVALANCHE CONTROL GAS EXPLODERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kevin Cheevers, Logan Maley, Elizabeth Ramey, Matei Radulescu
Description: The avalanche control industry is shifting towards the Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) to protect both public and private infrastructure such ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.44.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, gas dynamics, shock dynamics, cfd
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Title: UNSTRUCTURED DATA PROCESSING: ASKING NEW QUESTIONS OF AVALANCHE ACCIDENT REPORTS AND OTHER NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bhavya Chopra, Björn Hartmann, Aditya Parameswaran, Shreya Shankar
Description: Statistical analyses are powerful tools for distilling patterns in avalanche accidents. Most such analyses rely on structured data — quantities that...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.45.pdf
Keywords: large language models, unstructured data processing, visualization, avalanche reports
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Title: IMPROVING THE DATA BASIS FOR THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SNOW SLIDE IMPACTS FOR PRACTICAL AVALANCHE ENGINEERING AND HAZARD MAPPING APPLICATIONS IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Matthias Granig, Christian Tollinger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Snow slide hazard and risk assessment is increasingly relevant in the operational work of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (WLV)...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: snow slide, avalanche modeling, rapid assessment, surrogate models, avalanche engineering
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Title: SNOW CREEP AND GLIDE FIELD MEASUREMENTS: IMPROVEMENTS FOR DESIGN OF GAS-BASED REMOTE AVALANCHE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Adam Davis, Anton Avchyan
Description: Snow creep and glide forces in alpine environments contribute to structural damage and midwinter failure of remote avalanche control systems (RACS), p...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.47.pdf
Keywords: planning and engineering, racs installation and maintenance, snow creep, glide
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Title: HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN: A FRAMEWORK FOR PILOT EDUCATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christopher Templeton, Seth Waterfall
Description: Helicopter operations in mountainous winter environments present unique hazards that are often under-addressed in standard mountain flying curricula. ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.48.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, risk management
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Title: MAKING AVALANCHE RESCUE EASIER AND FASTER BY ADDING SATELLITE NETWORKS TO THE EXISTING STANDARD
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Vogt
Description: Avalanche Transceiver search is always very imprecise due to the given technology of the magnetic field which never can give an exact location. Search...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceiver, gps-search, faster
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Title: IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE BULLETINS THROUGH A MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) SERVER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Stanger, Bengt Haunerland, Simon Legner
Description: Timely access to official avalanche bulletins is critical for safe decision-making in avalanche terrain. While avalanche warning services publish stru...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, model context protocol, large language models, caaml, information accessibility
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Title: HEURISTIC TRAPS IN AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT AND MARKETING MANIPULATION: A ZETETIC APPROACH TO CRITICAL DECISION-MAKING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cédric Larcher
Description: Avalanche risk assessment is often compromised by heuristic traps (familiarity, consistency, acceptance, expert halo, social facilitation, scarcity), ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.50.pdf
Keywords: heuristic traps, avalanche risk, cognitive biases, marketing manipulation, zetetics, decision-making
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Title: Numerical study of the feasibility of a downslope structure to limit avalanche size during avalanche control activity
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Francis Meloche, Ron Simenhois, Don Sharaf, Ethan Greene, Johan Gaume
Description: Avalanche defense structures in starting zones are effective, but they are also expensive and visually intrusive; as a result, many highway programs i...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.51.pdf
Keywords: crack arrest, avalanche mitigation structures, release size, numerical modelling, depth-averaged material-point-method.
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