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- Title: MUCH ADO ABOUT SLUSHING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Susanne Eide Haug, Louise Vick, Alfred Hanssen, Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Chris D'Amboise, Dieter Issler
- Description: Slush, or soaked now, is a poorly understood endmember of the wet–dry snow continuum that can produce fast, damaging flows. A commonly cited thresho...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.66.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, soaked snow, snow laboratory experiments, rotating drum experiments, runout and hazard analysis.
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- Title: FED-UP WITH FEEDBACK: WHY FEED-FORWARD MATTERS MORE IN WICKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tim Dassler, Tove Dahl
- Description: The concept of the "wicked learning environment" has gained significant traction in avalanche education, where the spatial variability of the snowpack...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.7.pdf
- Keywords: wicked learning environment, avalanche education, mentorship, cognitive apprenticeship, reflective practice, expertise development
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- Title: DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE ROCKFALL BARRIERS UNDER STATIC AND DYNAMIC AREAL LOADING FROM SNOW
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Dennis Gasteiger, Maximilian Kramer
- Description: Flexible rockfall barriers are primarily designed to absorb high-energy point impacts caused by falling rocks. However, when installed in mountainous ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.8.pdf
- Keywords: flexible rockfall barriers, snow loads, avalanche loads, rope statics, structural analysis, multi-hazard protection
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- Title: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR ABCs A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING RECREATIONAL BACKCOUNTRY USERS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Avalanche Canada's recreational training program has long recognized the importance of teaching how human behaviours can affect sound decision-making ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.9.pdf
- Keywords: human behaviours, attitude, biases, communication
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- Title: TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS AND AVALANCHE CHARACTER IN THE CENTRAL WASATCH: A STATION BASED ANALYSIS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Haley Brenkmann
- Description: Atmospheric temperature inversions form under clear, calm, high-pressure conditions and are shaped by both synoptic weather and local topography. We t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.1.pdf
- Keywords: temperature inversion, avalanche, snowpack, wasatch, snotel, cold-air pooling
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- Title: REEVALUATING THE "10 CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS": DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY PREDICTION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: David E. Gluckman, Steven Clark
- Description: In operational practice, many avalanche forecasters rely primarily on subjective experience to provide risk assessments. Long-standing ideas of contri...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factors, machine learning, data-driven models
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- Title: THE LAST FRONTIER OF AVALANCHE SAFETY: PUBLIC INFORMATION, STATE AGENCIES, AND NONPROFITS IN ALASKA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tim Rogers
- Description: For the last fifty years, Alaska has led the United States in cumulative, per capita avalanche deaths, with the second most fatalities and the second ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: alaska, public safety, nonprofit, avalanche centers
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- Title: USING MODIFIED PROPAGATION SAW TESTS TO TRACK INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN SNOWPACK STABILITY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Itai Sheleg, Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland, Dave Gauthier, Ron Simenhois
- Description: Backcountry avalanche forecasters issue daily snowpack stability assessments to guide danger ratings and travel recommendations. Stability trends are ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: propagation saw test, crack propagation, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: WATER RETANTION CURVE OF SNOW FROM X-RAY MICROSTRUCTUER
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Adachi, Takafumi Katsushima
- Description: Because most meltwater movement within a snowpack occurs under unsaturated conditions, the snow water retention curve (SWRC) must be represented appro...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.13.pdf
- Keywords: snow water retention curve, equivalent pore-body diameter, x-ray micro-ct, 3d watershed, kosugi model
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- Title: Avalanche Forecast Verification and Occurrence in Scotland, 2007–2025
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ian N. Durbach, Blair Fyffe, Brian Morrison, Mark Diggins, Philip A. Ebert
- Description: The Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) has issued daily avalanche forecasts across Scotland since 1988. In 2016, the service adopted the Eu...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.14.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, danger level, avalanche occurrence, scotland
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- Title: HOW BACKCOUNTRY USERS ENGAGE WITH AVALANCHE FORECASTS: EVIDENCE FROM AN ITEM RESPONSE MODELLING APPROACH
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jerred Jolin, Kelly McNeil
- Description: This study examined patterns of avalanche forecast information use among recreational-level avalanche course completers using data from the Use of Ava...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, engagement, risk communication
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- Title: MISSION-FOCUSED RISK MAPPING FOR AVALANCHE CONTROL IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Chris Argue, Danyelle Magnan
- Description: Avalanche control for the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park (GNP) relie...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.16.pdf
- Keywords: risk, artillery, avalanche, control, mapping.
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- Title: TO PROBE OR NOT TO PROBE: EVALUATING FINE SEARCH STANDARDS AND THE ROLE OF PROBING IN SHALLOW BURIAL PROFESSIONAL RESCUE SCENARIOS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ben Merkle
- Description: The first thirty minutes of the avalanche burial survival curve are the steepest, and even small time savings in gaining airway access can improve pat...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, professional rescue, shallow burial, probe, fine search
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- Title: USING HIGH-RESOLUTION VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS TO FORECAST PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER FORMATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Seth Waterfall, John Stimberis, Rachel Griffith
- Description: Vertical temperature gradients near the snow surface play a critical role in snowpack metamorphism and atmospheric energy exchange. The near-surface b...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.18.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, instrumentation and remote sensing, snowpack properties, modelling and quantitative forecasting
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- Title: MOTORIZED AVALANCHE RESCUE PROCEDURES: ADAPTING COMPANION RESCUE TO MACHINE-BASED TRAVEL
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Established avalanche companion-rescue fundamentals apply to motorized users, but snowmobiles and snow bikes change how they are carried out. Rescue s...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.19.pdf
- Keywords: motorized avalanche rescue; companion rescue; snowmobile; transceiver interference; search management; m.a.r.p.
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