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Title: New Technologies: What Roles in the Education and Training? Feedback and Examples: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Alain Duclos, Thierry VallÃ©e; Description: Educate, train, improve knowledge: new technologies offer attractive opportunities, but may also have adverse effects. What are these "New Technologie...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-39.pdf; Keywords: social networks, mobile, open data, good practices, education, safety; View additional details about New Technologies: What Roles in the Education and Training? Feedback and Examples

Title: Establishing an Avalanche Community and Communication in Japan: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Degawa Azusa, Hirota Yusuke; Description: In any country, the process of establishing a community aimed at avalanche safety and the characteristics of the community are influenced a great deal...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-41.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulletin, avalanche community, communication; View additional details about Establishing an Avalanche Community and Communication in Japan

Title: Visualizing Snow Profiles: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Matthias Gerber, Charles Fierz, Pascal Haegeli; Description: The introduction of the CAAML 5.0 Profile for IACS Snow Profiles (Haegeli et al., 2010) created the necessary foundation for facilitating the exchange...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-44.pdf; Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml 5.0, iacs, snow profile, visualization; View additional details about Visualizing Snow Profiles

Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan: Date: 2012; Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger; Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...; Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf; Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control; View additional details about Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan

Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche â€“ Then What are the Odds?: Date: 2012; Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones; Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...; Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf; Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,; View additional details about Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche â€“ Then What are the Odds?

Title: Vision Zero: Applying Road Safety to Avalanche Safety: Date: 2012; Authors: Dale Atkins, Magnus Granhed; Description: In 1997 the Swedish Parliament mandated that road fatalities and serious accidents be reduced to zero by 2020. To achieve this extraordinary directive...; Object ID: issw-2012-016-022.pdf; Keywords: avalanche, accidents, fatalities, road safety, vision zero, sweden, united states; View additional details about Vision Zero: Applying Road Safety to Avalanche Safety

Title: Storm Snow Avalanches: Characteristics and Forecasting: Date: 2012; Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland, Jeff Dozier; Description: At ski areas, a majority of avalanches fail in storm snow. We investigate these avalanches using stability tests and avalanche observations from Calif...; Object ID: issw-2012-111-114.pdf; Keywords: storm snow, ski area, extended column test; View additional details about Storm Snow Avalanches: Characteristics and Forecasting

Title: An Experimental Dynamic Response Study of Hard Slab Seasonal Snow to Explosive Avalanche Hazard Mitigation: Date: 2012; Authors: Josephine Bones, Daniel Miller, Scotty Savage; Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation programs routinely use explosive charges to release avalanches and test slope stability, but fundamental understanding of ...; Object ID: issw-2012-142-148.pdf; Keywords: snowslope stability, avalanche control by explosives, blast bolt, hard slab,; View additional details about An Experimental Dynamic Response Study of Hard Slab Seasonal Snow to Explosive Avalanche Hazard Mitigation

Title: The Avalx Public Avalanche Forecasting System: Date: 2012; Authors: Grant Statham, Scott Campbell, Karl Klassen; Description: In November 2011, Parks Canada, the Canadian Avalanche Centre and Alberta Parks Kananaskis Country launched a new avalanche bulletin system named Aval...; Object ID: issw-2012-165-171.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard assessment, canadian avalanche centre; View additional details about The Avalx Public Avalanche Forecasting System

Title: Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas: Date: 2012; Authors: Paul Baugher; Description: From 1990/91 to 2011/12, there have been sixty-four Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) cases reported at U.S. ski areas. Comparing inherent risks at ski...; Object ID: issw-2012-220-226.pdf; Keywords: snow immersion, suffocation, sis, narsid, ski area, risk management, ski safety, skier education; View additional details about Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas

Title: The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain: Date: 2012; Authors: Christopher C. Morin; Description: The winter of 2010/2011 created a surprisingly widespread weak layer across the northwestern United States. In Washington state it became to be known...; Object ID: issw-2012-240-243.pdf; Keywords: snowfall, crusts, avalanche cycles, helicopter bombing; View additional details about The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain

Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for â€œMarkingâ€ During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard: Date: 2012; Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust; Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...; Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf; Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety; View additional details about Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for â€œMarkingâ€ During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard

Title: On the Effectiveness of Avalanche Balloon Packs: Date: 2012; Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Benjamin Zweifel, FrÃ©dÃ©ric Jarry, Spencer Logan, Hanno Bilek, Marek BiskupiÄ, Hermann Brugger, Markus Falk; Description: Even though avalanche balloon packs have been promoted in Europe since the early 1990s, they have only truly established themselves as an accepted av...; Object ID: issw-2012-324-328.pdf; Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche balloon packs, avalanche airbags, avalanche survival; View additional details about On the Effectiveness of Avalanche Balloon Packs

Title: Avalanche Protection on Highway E8 to the City of Tromso, Northern Norway: Date: 2012; Authors: Ole-AndrÃ© Helgaas, Oevind Skeie Hellum, Dag T. Andreassen; Description: The highway network in the northern part of Norway is mostly located in alpine terrain. Every winter snow avalanches affect some of these roads and gi...; Object ID: issw-2012-674-679.pdf; Keywords: avalanche protection, highway safety, alpine terrain, avalanche forecasting; View additional details about Avalanche Protection on Highway E8 to the City of Tromso, Northern Norway

Title: National Database for Mitigative Measures Against Rapid Gravity Mass Flows and Rock Falls: Date: 2012; Authors: Ãrni JÃ³nsson, Egil Syre, Kristine Helene Hetland Ekseth, Helge C. Smebye, Eivind M. Paulsen; Description: Mitigation measures against natural catastrophes, such as rapid gravity mass flows and rock falls, have been built in Norway for centuries. Over the l...; Object ID: issw-2012-680-684.pdf; Keywords: mitigation measures, geographic information systems (gis), database; View additional details about National Database for Mitigative Measures Against Rapid Gravity Mass Flows and Rock Falls

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