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- Title: Free-Ride: Local Evaluation of Avalanche Danger in Valgrisenche - Aosta Valley (I)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: P. Dellavedova, D. Garin, V. Segor
- Description: During the months of February and March 2010, in the north-west part of Western Alps in Aosta Valley where the practice of free-ride heliski is regula...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-022.pdf
- Keywords: free-ride, stability test
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- Title: The Creation of Snow Crystal Identification Guidelines Through Photgraphic Analysis
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Douglas P. Catharine, Douglas M. McCabe, Irene E. Henninger, Thomas S. Leonard, Ethan M. Greaves
- Description: Snow crystal identifications are a widely utilized and international observation. Crystal identification is utilized in various situations, including ...
- Object ID: issw-2010-catharine-poster.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystal, photographic analysis, avalanche observation, metamorphism
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- Title: Youth Avalanche Education Programs in the Pacific Northwest: Analysis and Recommendations
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Kenneth Turner
- Description: In Washington State alone, avalanches historically claim more lives that earthquakes, volcanoes, and other natural disasters. With snow sports becomin...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-031.pdf
- Keywords: youth avalanche education programs, pacific northwest, survey
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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: Group Dynamics and Decision Making: Backcountry Recreationists in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2010
- Authors: L. Shay Bright
- Description: Although avalanche literature emphasizes group communication and decision making, little empirical evidence exists regarding how these groups communic...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-035.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, group dynamics, backcountry recreationists, avalanche terrain, leadership
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- Title: A GIS Database for Avalanche Forecasting in Colorado
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Douglas Scott, Ethan Greene
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) is a statewide avalanche forecasting and education group. The CAIC produces avalanche safety products...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-038.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: An Avalanche Terrain Assessment of Proposed Manitoba Mountain and Whistle Stop Hut-to-Hut Systems Using a Geographical Information System
- Date: 2010
- Authors: E. Cleary, E. Latosuo, J. Geck, J. Wolfe
- Description: Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Hut Association has proposed a hut-to-hut system
on the Kenai Peninsula of Southcentral Alaska. A terrain assessment i...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-039.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, geographic information systems (gis), hut-to-hut system
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- Title: Applying New Uncertainty Related Theories and Multicriteria Decision Analysis Methods to Snow Avalanche Risk Management
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert, Didier Richard
- Description: Making the best decision in the event of a snow avalanche encounters problems in the assessment and management process because of the lack of informat...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-040.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, expert judgement, reliability, uncertainty, decision making, multicriteria decision analysis, analytic hierarchy process (ahp), information fusion, fuzzy sets theory, possibility theory, evidence theory, dempster shafer t
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- Title: Human Factors in Avalanche Avoidance and Survival: Consequences of Violating the Rules of Safe Travel
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Kelly L. Kisinger, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell, Jan Uttl
- Description: Using hundreds of historical avalanche accident records from USA and Canada, we
examined human factors – avalanche victims' behavior prior to,...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-042.pdf
- Keywords: human factors, avalanche accidents, avalanche avoidance, avalanche survival
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- Title: Improving the Interoperability and User-Friendliness of the French Snow Avalanche Information Systems
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Laure Vidaud-Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Michael Deschâtres, Mylène Bonnefoy, Didier Richard
- Description: Snow avalanches are rapid mass movements that put humans and material assets at risk with dramatic consequences. Risk reduction is reduced through str...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-043.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, information systems, data quality, information sharing, software engineering, interoperability
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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: Practical Methods for Using Vegetation Patterns to Estimate Avalanche Frequency and Magnitude
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Sara E. Simonson, Ethan M. Greene, Steven R. Fassnacht, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Chris C. Landry
- Description: Practitioners working in avalanche terrain can benefit from learning about and
characterizing the avalanche paths that they are dealing with. A worke...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-045.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche path vegetation, plant species diversity, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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- Title: Mapping Exposure to Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Peter Marshall
- Description: During the winter of 2009-10, several signs were created in collaboration with British
Columbia government agencies for winter trailheads. The center...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-046.pdf
- Keywords: winter trailheads, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), slope- to basin-scale terrain
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- Title: Heading Beyond the Gates: Who is Most at Risk of Getting Involved in Avalanche Incidents Out-of-Bounds?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matt Gunn, Pascal Haegeli, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: The popularity of out-of-bounds skiing and snowboarding has been growing steadily over the last decade despite the avalanche risk inherent to the acti...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-047.pdf
- Keywords: out-of-bounds skiing, multidimensional risk assessment, sensation seeking scale, selfefficacy, risk communication
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- Title: E.P.A.: Avalanche Permanent Survey, More Than 100 Years of Observation Updated for More Reliability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michaël Deschâtres, Sylvain Cabos, Nicolas Eckert, Didier Richard
- Description: E.P.A. (Avalanche Permanent Survey) is a descriptive report of selected avalanche areas. Survey is conduced, each winter, by observers assigned betwee...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-048.pdf
- Keywords: reliability, 100 years of observation, survey
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