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- Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Operating a Highway Avalanche Program During a Major Construction Project
- Date: 2012
- Authors: John Stimberis
- Description: Snoqualmie Pass, WA (921m) receives an average of 1100 cm of snowfall annually.
Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass is the major highway through the C...
- Object ID: issw-2012-547-552.pdf
- Keywords: snow sheds, avalanche fences, explosives tramways, avalanche forecasting, avalanche control
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- Title: Pitfalls in Development of Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bob Uttl, James Taylor, Jan Uttl
- Description: We present a new avalanche accident prevention tool for recreational backcountry users: the 7CF. We evaluated the new tool's effectiveness on hundreds...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-023.pdf
- Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, obvious clues, risk reduction, avalanche accidents
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- Title: Estimating Extreme Avalanche Runout for the Lizard Range, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Katherine S. Johnston, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Identifying the extreme avalanche runout is an important part of public safety for
development in mountainous areas. Extreme avalanche runout is typi...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-050.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche runout, statistical models, residential development
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- Title: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
- Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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- Title: Chugach State Park Avalanche Information Center Feasibility Study
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jon Gellings, Eeva Latosuo, Blaine Smith, Ian Thomas
- Description: This feasibility study aimed at determining what it would take to provide avalanche
information advisories with the state agency of Alaska State Park...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-063.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, information center, surveys, public safety
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- Title: Implications of Recent Research in the Fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Biology for Avalanche Safety Education
- Date: 2010
- Authors: David M. Sweet
- Description: Since its inception the goal of avalanche safety education has been to reduce or eliminate avalanche fatalities and injuries. Education about avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-033.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, decision making, cognitive biology, evolutionary psychology
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- Title: Compiling and Studying Professional Avalanche Worker Incident Data to Improve Worker Safety
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Scotty Savage
- Description: Avalanche professionals work in a hazardous alpine environment, often under physical and emotional stress. Working in an uncertain, stressful, and ris...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-044.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche safety, risk managment, decision-making errors, snowpack, weather
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- Title: Total Safety in Mountain Passes
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jürg Rocco
- Description: We describe the procedure we follow to keep the Flüela Pass open in early winter and to re-open the road in the spring.
- Object ID: issw-2009-0553.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche control
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- Title: A Practical Use of Historical Data to Mitigate Worker Exposure to Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Jake Elkins, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
- Description: In the forty-one seasons of avalanche mitigation at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, avalanche hazard reduction routes have been run from the top dow...
- Object ID: P__8139.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mitigation, historical database, geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: Deep Slab Instability, Decision Making, and Consequences: A Case Study
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Kirsti Jurica, Steve “Hoots†Witsoe
- Description: On March 8th, 2008 an avalanche occurred on Mt. Eyak, near Cordova, Alaska. It resulted in the death of an avalanche forecaster, and the broken femur ...
- Object ID: P__8260.pdf
- Keywords: deep slab instability, human factors
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- Title: Snow Doughnuts, Beacon Checkers, Blaster Trailers and Other Low Cost Tools from the Field
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Mike Stanford
- Description: This presentation will describe a variety of tools and programs from a practitioner's toolbox that have been and continue to be developed. In this age...
- Object ID: P__8013.pdf
- Keywords: snow doughnut, blast trailer, safety, public
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- Title: Making the News: Using the Media for Avalanche Safety
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Canada is an alpine nation, yet most Canadians have little or no effective knowledge of avalanches. At the CAA and CAC we are focusing significant eff...
- Object ID: P__8173.pdf
- Keywords: education, safety
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- Title: Is it Safe? An Educational Poster Developed by Grade School Students for their Peers
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: 2007/2008 Fifth Grade Class, Andrew E. Slaughter, David T. Neal
- Description: A poster developed by the students of Mr. Neal's 5th grade class was specifically designed to educate their fellow schoolmates regarding snow and aval...
- Object ID: P__8056.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, safety, education
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- Title: Virtual Reality in Mountain Survival
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hanan Yaniv
- Description: Working and traveling in the mountains comes with a level of risk, but that risk can be diminished with knowledge. This knowledge takes two significan...
- Object ID: P__8268.pdf
- Keywords: education, survival
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- Title: Alaskasnow: A Practitioners
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Peter E. Carter, Sarah A. Carter
- Description: This poster presentation describes the enhancement of AlaskaSnow.org, the Valdez Chugach Region network of avalanche professionals, with a practitione...
- Object ID: P__8240.pdf
- Keywords: valdez chugach region network, avalanche safety, online data sharing
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