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- Title: Rescue Compass – A Decision Making Tool for Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Bründl, Hans-Jürg Etter
- Description: During avalanche rescue operations rescuers can face considerable risk, while the
degree of risk a rescuer should take to save a life is open to deba...
- Object ID: issw-2012-746-749.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche accident, decision support, risk management
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- Title: GIS Tools for Avalanche Assessment
- Date: 2012
- Authors: G. Burelli, F. Cucchi, V. Segor
- Description: The use of Gis in avalanche assessment is widely adopted, it performs analysis which help to make decisions in land management.
The aim of this work ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-750-755.pdf
- Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), land use planning, avalanche hazard
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- Title: How Effective Are Avalanche Airbags? Field Tests of Avalanche Safety Equipment
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Stephan Harvey
- Description: Avalanche transceiver – shovel – probe. This still is the standard equipment recommended for touring in the backcountry. More and more, ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-756-763.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche airbags, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche deposits, avalanche burial
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- Title: ARS Avalanche Rescue Dog Handler Course in Andermatt, Switzerland
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sean C. Hopewell
- Description: Not Available
- Object ID: issw-2012-764-767.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dogs, wasatch, k-9 search and rescue
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- Title: Three Different Shapes of Avalanche Balloons – A Pilot Study
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Marek BiskupiÄ, Jozef Richnavský, Milan Lizuch, Filip Kyzek, Igor Žiak, Pawel Chrustek, Emily P rocter
- Description: Flotation devices are more and more frequently used. Their efficacy has already been demonstrated by field tests (Tschirky and Schweizer 1996; Kern et...
- Object ID: issw-2012-770-774.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche balloon packs, avalanche airbags, field trial
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- Title: Could Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Norway from 2005 – 2012 Been Prevented Using the Reduction Method, The Basic Reduction Method and the Alptruth Method?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Stian Langeland, Magnus Berger Skjøstad, Vetle Aase Øvrebotten, Roland van den Tillaar
- Description: The number of people off-piste skiing in Norway is increasing (Odden, 2008). In the last few years the number of fatal avalanche accidents involving r...
- Object ID: issw-2012-775-780.pdf
- Keywords: decision support methods, avalanche hazard, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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- Title: Association of Professional Patrollers
- Date: 2012
- Authors: unknown
- Description: The APP (Association of Professional Patrollers) is a Private Non Profit organization that has provided education, training, and clinics to Ski patrol...
- Object ID: issw-2012-781-782.pdf
- Keywords: ski patrolling, association
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- Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
- Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
- Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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- Title: Know Before You Go: Adapting Youth Avalanche Education for Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sean Fallon, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Increased accessibility and snow sports media expose more youth to dangerous avalanche terrain than ever before. Standard avalanche education has fail...
- Object ID: issw-2012-788-794.pdf
- Keywords: youth, avalanche education, avalanche awareness, know before you go, alaska, alaska avalanche school
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- Title: Practical Outputs for Avalanche Experts from Two Research Projects in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: B. Frigo, M. Maggioni, A. Debernardi, V. Segor, L. Pitet, B. Chiaia, M. Freppaz, E. Zanini
- Description: In agreement with the idea of the ISSW “a merging of theory and practiceâ€, we describe the activities carried out in Aosta Valley (NW Ital...
- Object ID: issw-2012-795-799.pdf
- Keywords: expert’s education, courses, guide lines, web based training
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- Title: How Mountain Snowmobilers Adjust Their Riding Preferences in Response to Avalanche Hazard Information Available at Different Stages of Backcountry Trips
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: Over the last five winters, mountain snowmobilers accounted for 53% (41 of 77) of all recreational avalanche fatalities in Canada, which is a signific...
- Object ID: issw-2012-800-806.pdf
- Keywords: mountain snowmobiling, avalanche hazard information, decision making, terrain choices, discrete choice experiment
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- Title: Avalanche Education in the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Date: 2012
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy
- Description: Avalanche education in the USA has a long and colorful history punctuated by many of the most notable and endearing personalities on our field. Howeve...
- Object ID: issw-2012-814-819.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche history, ski patrolling, avalanche hazard
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- Title: How to Explain Avalanche Dynamics to Children and Their Parents
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Thierry Faug, Frédéric Ousset, Xavier Ravanat, Paolo Caccamo
- Description: Snow avalanches threaten mountain communities worldwide: avalanches affect not only snow sport tourists but people can also be caught in inhabited are...
- Object ID: issw-2012-820-826.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, dynamics, small-scale model, education, general public
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- Title: Adherence to Risk Prevention and Safety Measures in Backcountry Winter Recreationists
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Procter E., Strapazzon G., Staffler HP, Preindl A., Seebacher F., Castlunger L., Ebner I., Brugger H.
- Description: Rapid extrication within 10-20 minutes of complete avalanche burial is essential for survival (Haegeli et al. 2011). Safety equipment, along with basi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-827-830.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche burial, backcountry, avalanche risk, avalanche safety equipment
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- 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
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