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Title: Tinder for Mentors: Examining the Prevalence and Value of Mentorship Relationships Amongst Avalanche Professionals in the United States
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Lynne Wolfe
Description: Anecdotally, mentorship has been referenced as playing a significant role in the avalanche industry in the US for years. However, this has never been ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.25.pdf
Keywords: mentorship, avalanche professionals, workplace safety
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Title: Adapting and Calibrating the DAN3D Dynamic Model for North American Snow Avalanche Runout Modelling
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jordan Aaron, Michael Conlan, Katherine Johnston, Dave Gauthier, Scott McDougall
Description: Numerical dynamic snow avalanche simulations are now a key component in snow avalanche hazard and risk assessment, land use planning, and mitigation d...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.28.pdf
Keywords: dynamic model, avalanche runout, three dimensions, deposit volume
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Title: Method of Selection and Input Data to Create Event Scenarios
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Valerio Segor, Paola Dellavedova, Nathalie Durand, Luca Pitet, Andrea Debernardi, Eloise Bovet
Description: The web-platform for the Avalanche Local Commissions (CLV) was developed as a operational tool to facilitate the avalanche hazard management. This too...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche local commissions (clv), dataset, avalanche scenarios, road management
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Title: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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Title: Modernizing North America's Oldest Avalanche Program in Little Cotttonwood Canyon, Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bill Nalli
Description: The combination of abundant snowfall, narrow roadway with many avalanche paths, dozens of threatened buildings, and large backcountry touring communit...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.33.pdf
Keywords: highway avalanche program, avalanche forecasting, decision matrix, risk management
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Title: Optimizing GIS For Snow Safety Operations at Taos Ski Valley: Avalanche and Explosive Tracking and Digital Avalanche Atlas Apps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rachel L. Moscarella, Andy Bond, Wetherbee B. Dorshow
Description: Given the tenet that ski patrollers are inherently reluctant to complete paperwork, we felt compelled to make the recording of explosive use and avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: gis, risk management, avalanche mapping
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Title: Use of Time-Lapse Camera in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to Monitor Known Release Areas for Glide Avalanches in Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Julie E. Bjørlien, Njål Farestveit, Jens Tveit
Description: Glide avalanches represent one of the major avalanche problems for the Norwegian Public Road Administration in Western Norway and are notoriously diff...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.35.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, time-lapse photography
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Title: Forest Service Avalanche Center Safety: Examining Current Practice
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Simon Trautman, Scott Savage, Karl Birkeland
Description: In 2013 the Forest Service National Avalanche Center created guidelines designed to reduce worker risk at Forest Service (FS) backcountry avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.36.pdf
Keywords: safety, risk, avalanche center
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Title: Active Works in a Starting Zone: Monitoring, Maintenance and Functional Restoration. an Analysis of Real Cases of Intervention
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Massimo Raviglione, Flavio Papetti, Michela Barberis
Description: Active works in a starting zone are interventions made with more or less complex engineering structures (usually snow nets, snow bridges, rakes, tripo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: active works, maintenance, rockfall, landslides
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Title: Herding Cats: Increasing Public Avalanche Awareness at Copper Mountain Resort
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reed B. Ryan, Max J. Tyler
Description: During the 2015-2016 season, Copper Mountain Resort (CMR), in Summit County, Colorado, introduced a program encouraging guests to wear avalanche beaco...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, inbounds avalanche, avalanche education, avalanche awareness
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Title: Mapping Avalanche Mentorship in the US: A Visualization of the Mentorship Network Amongst US Avalanche Professionals
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sean C. Johnson, Eeva Latosuo, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
Description: Mentorship in the avalanche industry is a sparsely researched topic, yet anecdotally avalanche professionals and their workplaces typically talk about...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.44.pdf
Keywords: mentorship, mapping, avalanche, avalanche association, professional development
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Title: Utilizing Common Radio Channels in High-Use Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Matt H. Steen, Bruce Edgerly
Description: Winter backcountry travel is increasingly more popular, especially adjacent to ski areas and common-use trailheads. The increase of winter recreation ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.47.pdf
Keywords: radio communication, backcountry safety, group management, rescue
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Title: Design and Operation of Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) - a Best-Practice Example in the Alps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen
Description: This paper gives insights in how to design and operate Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) from the initial project planning to the operational av...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.48.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, risk management, design and operation
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Title: Measuring Avalanche Risk and Level of Service for a Transportation Network – a Practical Approach
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: This paper describes innovative metrics to explore the traffic service quality experienced by highway travelers as a result of avalanche risk mitigati...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: planning risk assessment, highways, ahi, uncertainty, hazard rating, racs, integral avalanche protection, calibrated probabilities
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Observer Corps: Safety, Quality, Training, Procedures and Culture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Landrø, Rune Engeset, Andreas Haslestad, Jostein Aasen, Knut I. Orset
Description: Field observers are crucial to secure a steady flow of high quality observations from the field, which is necessary to provide a reliable avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, observer training, safety
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