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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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