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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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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: Introduction and Influence of (Large) Existing Buildings on Avalanche Hazard Zoning: Case Study of Flaine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Fanny Bourjaillat
- Description: Flaine is a French ski resort developed ex-nihilo since the 60s. In spite of avalanche slopes just above, the different settlements were possible than...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.01.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, obstacle influence, buildings resistance
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- Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
- Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
- Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense Mounds in the Bull of the Woods Avalanche Path, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Brian Gorsage, Rod Newcomb, Lee Elder, Kelly Elder, Galen Richards
- Description: On February 16, 2014 a large natural avalanche (HS-N-R5-D5) released in the Bull of the Woods avalanche path at milepost 156.5 on US 191 in the Hoback...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: passive mitigation, defense mounds, berms, dendrochronology
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- Title: Snow Pressures on a Rigid Snow Supporting Structure at the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Sean Strain, Megan Stevens
- Description: Mitigation of avalanche hazard to roadways within the Western United States has historically been conducted by means of artificial release of explosiv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow supporting structures, mitigation
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- Title: A Proposed Paradigm for Advancing Human Factors Research: Linking Behavioral and Avalanche Scientific Disciplines
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Keith Gale, Dale Atkins, Iain Stewart-Patterson, Benjamin Zweifel, Bruce Tremper, Baruch Fischoff, Michael Jenkins, Rashaad Jones, Joseph Keebler, Moin Rahman, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Mark Borsuk, Magda Osman, Alan Sanfey, Brenda Dervin, Karlene Roberts, Ed Carlson, Mike Laney, Tim Bennett, Kenneth Perez, Taylor Barr
- Description: The avalanche industry understands that to save lives, we need to understand human behavior. The scientific discipline most directly affiliated with h...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.07.pdf
- Keywords: research roadmap
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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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: Design and Testing of Blast Shield for Avalanche Control used by the Colorado Department of Transportation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Vilem Petr, Eduardo Lozano
- Description: An accidental explosion took place in March 2014 while performing an avalanche control operation in Loveland, Colorado. After the unfortunate events, ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.51.pdf
- Keywords: barrier, blast wave, fragmentation, high explosives, safety
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- Title: Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses – What Can We Learn?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve Conger
- Description: This paper and its associated poster present a study of avalanche close-calls or incidents that have occurred during field sessions in a formalized av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, close calls, hazard evaluation conceptual model, recognition primed decision-making
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- Title: Re-thinking the Avalanche Education Curriculum for Snowmobilers
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: The BC Coroner's avalanche death review panel (British Columbia Coroners Service, 2009) made fifteen recommendations aimed at cultivating a culture of...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.41.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobile, education, terrain management
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- Title: Description and Evaluation of the New French Operational Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting Incorporating a Drifting Snow Scheme
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Gilbert Guyomarch, Vincent Vionnet, Matthieu Lafaysse, Gérald Giraud, Yannick Déliot, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
- Description: It is well known by avalanche forecasters that wind plays a determinant role in shaping the small-scale distribution of snow and strongly influences t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.14.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow events, tools for avalanche forecasters, avalanche hazard forecasting
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