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- Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact – The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Jónsson Ãrni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.03.pdf
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- Title: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
- Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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- Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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- Title: Drone-Based UWB Radar to Measure Snow Layering in Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rolf O. Rydeng Jenssen, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Kjell-Arild Høgda, Eirik Malnes, Svein K. Jacobsen
- Description: Slab avalanches release due to failure in a weak snow layer. Determining the spatial distribution and depth of weak layers in avalanche starting zones...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.15.pdf
- Keywords: uwb radar, uav, snow stratigraphy, avalanche risk assessment, avatech
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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: 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: Being Prepared for Low Frequency Major Avalanche Rescues
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Donald Bogie, Andrew L. Hobman
- Description: From a risk and search management perspective, an avalanche Search and Rescue (SAR) response contains many factors that increase the complexity and ri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.16.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, avalanche site control, training
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- Title: Student Motivations and Learning Objectives Before and After a Level One Avalanche Course
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cassandra Balent, Jerry Johnson, Jordy Hendrikx, Liz Shanahan
- Description: This study seeks to define student motivations and cognitive outcomes for an AIARE Level 1 avalanche course in order to explore how educational interv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.27.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk perception, experiential learning
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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: 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: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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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: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
- Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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