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- Title: OPERATIONALIZING AVALANCHE-TERRAIN SAR DECISIONS: THE KING COUNTY WINTER RESPONSE TEAM MODEL
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Erik Olson, Brad Hefta-Gaub, Jim Hirshfield
- Description: Avalanche-terrain Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in King County, Washington occur across a large and complex operational area. Potential missions sp...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.3.pdf
- Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche terrain, mission planning, incident command, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: SHRINE BOWL AVALANCHE CASE STUDY: LESSONS IN EXPECTATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Aaron Parmet, Drew Gibson
- Description: This case study of an outlier in avalanche rescue survival provides an opportunity to examine how expectation-based heuristics influence operational j...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, search and rescue, long avalanche burial, cognitive heuristics, expectation bias, decision-making
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- Title: "WHY CAN'T THEY GET THEM OUT?" RISK, SAR DECISION-MAKING, AND FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS IN DELAYED AVALANCHE RECOVERIES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Amy Holman, Eric Geisler, Eeva Latosuo, Matthew Lemons
- Description: Avalanche training emphasizes immediate search and rescue (SAR), yet operational, environmental, and risk-based constraints can delay recovery for ext...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, recovery, risk, family, communication
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- Title: IS YOUR GUIDE CERTIFIED? THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE CANADIAN MOTORIZED BACKCOUNTRY GUIDES ASSOCIATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Curtis Pawliuk, Steve Scott, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Formally trained, coached, and assessed competencies are defining characteristics of professional guiding practice. The primary responsibility of a gu...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.6.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry guiding, snowmobiling, risk management
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- Title: BEING DIFFICULT: STRATEGIES FOR ENCOURAGING DISSENT FROM COLLEAGUES AND STAFF IN THE A.M. FORECAST MEETING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jenna Malone
- Description: Cognitive science and psychology have long explored how individuals can ignore or reinterpret crucial information to reinforce their existing beliefs....
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.7.pdf
- Keywords: dissent, psychological safety, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, crew resource management, groupthink
- View additional details about BEING DIFFICULT: STRATEGIES FOR ENCOURAGING DISSENT FROM COLLEAGUES AND STAFF IN THE A.M. FORECAST MEETING
- Title: FROM HUMAN FACTORS TO HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY FACTORS: AN HCI PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY IN AVALANCHE SAFETY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Björn Hartmann, Jason Smith
- Description: The avalanche safety literature has identified human factors that contribute to accidents, yet researchers note a persistent gap between these insight...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.1.pdf
- Keywords: human factors, human-computer interaction, heuristic traps, interactive technology.
- View additional details about FROM HUMAN FACTORS TO HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY FACTORS: AN HCI PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY IN AVALANCHE SAFETY
- Title: FROM DETECTION TO DECISION SUPPORT: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF DOPPLER AVALANCHE RADAR IN HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Théo St. Pierre Ostrander, Heather Hordowick, Bret Shandro, Eoin Trainor, Peter Barsevskis, Maxence Carrel, Greg Johnson
- Description: Avalanche mitigation infrastructure, including remote avalanche control systems, bridges, snowsheds, and large earthen diversion or arresting structur...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.2.pdf
- Keywords: doppler radar, planning, operations, monitoring, mitigation.
- View additional details about FROM DETECTION TO DECISION SUPPORT: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF DOPPLER AVALANCHE RADAR IN HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
- Title: A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Bettina Richter, Anselm Köhler, Pierre Huguenin, Nander Wever, Eloïse Bovet, Betty Sovilla
- Description: As most mass movement model were calibrated to reproduce extreme avalanches, their link to daily snow cover remains poorly constraint. In this study, ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.3.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, runout predictions, data-driven model, snowpack
- View additional details about A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
- Title: TOWARDS REAL-TIME FRACTIONATION OF MIXED-PHASE PRECIPITATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Eric R. Pardyjak, Dhiraj K. Singh, Daniel Webster, Benjamin H. Silberman, Timothy Garrett, Travis Morrison
- Description: Near-surface precipitation can occur as liquid, solid, or mixed-phase hydrometeors. In many winter storms, individual particles are not purely rain or...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.4.pdf
- Keywords: mixed-phase precipitation, deid, avalanche forecasting, rain-on-snow events.
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- Title: INTEGRATING METEOROLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY INTO OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE HAZARD MODELLING: INITIAL EXPLORATIONS IN ENSEMBLE FORECASTING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton, Martin Perfler, Florian Herla, Fabiano Monti
- Description: Snowpack modelling has established itself as a valuable additional source of information for avalanche forecasting. However, translating uncertainty i...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.5.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modelling, meteorological uncertainty, ensemble modelling, snow stratigraphy, skier triggering
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- Title: MONITORING OF AVALANCHES USING DAS: FROM RELEASE TO FLOW MOTION DETECTION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Pascal Edme, Andri Simeon, Johannes Aichele, Alec van Herwijnen, Andreas Fichtner, Johan Gaume
- Description: The destructive power of snow avalanches and the uncertainty in predicting them demand reliable monitoring systems in mountain regions. Distributed Ac...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.6.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, distributed acoustic sensing (das) monitoring, avalanche release
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- Title: A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches are responsible for most avalanche fatalities, making understanding of release mechanisms essential for forecasting and hazar...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.1.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, avalanche release, weak layer, failure initiation, crack propagation, anticrack, supershear fracture, slab fracture.
- View additional details about A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- Title: REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Yannik Werner, Jakob Schöttner, Melin D. E. Walet, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: Failure nucleation in slab avalanches is typically hidden beneath the snowpack, which, among other factors, makes this phenomenon so mysterious and di...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.2.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture initiation, finite fracture mechanics, release potential, stability assessment, field test
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- Title: STABILITY CHANGES AFTER WEAK LAYER COLLAPSE: INSIGHTS FROM AN UNEXPECTED DATASET
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erika Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Alex Marienthal, Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: While conducting avalanche mitigation or traveling through the backcountry, avalanche professionals sometimes experience a "whumpf": a collapse-mode c...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.3.pdf
- Keywords: whumpf, crack propagation, propagation saw test (pst), snowpack stability, avalanche release
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- Title: ON EXPLOSIVE BLAST WAVES AND SNOW: Insights from measurements with time-synchronized air pressure sensors and geophones
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Benjamin Meier, Samuel V. Verplanck
- Description: In a project funded by the Transportation Avalanche Research Pool (TARP), we investigated the interaction between explosive blast waves and the snowpa...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.4.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, avalanches, pressure, shockwave, experiments, geophones
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