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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: In the Pursuit of Standards - the Next Step in Canada's Avalanche Risk Management Guidelines
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Steve Conger, Brian Gould, Pascal Haegeli, Bruce Jamieson, Grant Statham
- Description: Recognizing the need to standardize new and innovative Canadian avalanche risk management practices and respond to increasing demand from regulatory b...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.27.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, risk, management, guidelines, planning, operations
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- Title: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
- Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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- Title: Modernizing North America's Oldest Avalanche Program in Little Cotttonwood Canyon, Utah
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Nalli
- Description: The combination of abundant snowfall, narrow roadway with many avalanche paths, dozens of threatened buildings, and large backcountry touring communit...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.33.pdf
- Keywords: highway avalanche program, avalanche forecasting, decision matrix, risk management
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- Title: Optimizing GIS For Snow Safety Operations at Taos Ski Valley: Avalanche and Explosive Tracking and Digital Avalanche Atlas Apps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rachel L. Moscarella, Andy Bond, Wetherbee B. Dorshow
- Description: Given the tenet that ski patrollers are inherently reluctant to complete paperwork, we felt compelled to make the recording of explosive use and avala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.34.pdf
- Keywords: gis, risk management, avalanche mapping
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- Title: Bringing the Near Infrared Light to Practice
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Micah Johnson, Jacob Taubenheim, Drew M. Eldred, Ryan Stevenson
- Description: The infrared light spectrum has proven to be an area with great potential for snow science. Most of the work performed to date has been to understand ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.41.pdf
- Keywords: nir, probe, faceting
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- Title: Utilizing Common Radio Channels in High-Use Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Matt H. Steen, Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Winter backcountry travel is increasingly more popular, especially adjacent to ski areas and common-use trailheads. The increase of winter recreation ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.47.pdf
- Keywords: radio communication, backcountry safety, group management, rescue
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- Title: Design and Operation of Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) - a Best-Practice Example in the Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen
- Description: This paper gives insights in how to design and operate Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) from the initial project planning to the operational av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.48.pdf
- Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, risk management, design and operation
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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: Avalanche Management in a Large Chilean Copper Mine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patricio Cerda, Luis Gallardo, Marcel Didier, Marcel Oyarzun Joaquin, Mujica Rodrigo, Cesar Vera
- Description: The Andina copper mine is located at an elevation of 4200 m. in the Rio Blanco Valley north of Santiago de Chile. It is one of the world?s most produc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.42.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, management, risk, operation, mining
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- Title: Communicating Observations and Ideas: a Tool to Develop Continuity and Learning Opportunities Among Professionals at the Ski Area
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Drew Gibson
- Description: In the early 2000s the Copper Mountain Ski Patrol implemented the use of Adobe Photo Elements (Moroz, Simenhois, 2004) to graphically record and organ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.49.pdf
- Keywords: communication, onenote, mentoring, forecast production
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- Title: Crisis Management
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Paul Bonhomme, Copil
- Description: The national labor syndicate of the French mountain guides is regularly confronted
with crisis situations. The probability of occurrence of an accide...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-35.pdf
- Keywords: help, crisis, media, processing, communication
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- Title: Avalanche Crisis Management, (Not Including Outdoor Activities) New Practical Guide to the Attention of Mayors and Local Executives
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Oceane Vibert, Francois Rapin, et Jean-Pierre Requillard
- Description: In France, in case of avalanche risk, local politicians have to "prescribe measures required by the circumstances". This is the duty of legitimate con...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-07.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, prevention, crisis management, inhabitants
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