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Title: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault; Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...; Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf; Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education; View additional details about What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?

Title: Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Neil S. Geisler, Karl R. Geisler; Description: Avalanche course curriculum tends to focus on three main areas: the technical and observable underpinnings of avalanche formation and release, decisio...; Object ID: ISSW16_P3.34.pdf; Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, decision making, risk, behavior change; View additional details about Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education

Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould; Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...; Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf; Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education; View additional details about Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design

Title: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins; Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...; Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf; Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking; View additional details about Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective

Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli; Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...; Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf; Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification; View additional details about Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study

Title: Applying and Communicating our Operations Working Memory: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Jonathon Spitzer, Rachel Spitzer; Description: It is essential that avalanche forecasters and guides accurately recall and apply the details of past avalanche events. The operational capability to ...; Object ID: ISSW16_O5.04.pdf; Keywords: communication, risk management, working memory, guide; View additional details about Applying and Communicating our Operations Working Memory

Title: Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Daniel Tobler, Pierre Dalban, Lorenz Meier, Juerg Lauper; Description: The Eiger hanging glacier is located in the west face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps (Swit-zerland). Large ice avalanches, especially if they trigge...; Object ID: ISSW16_O7.04.pdf; Keywords: risk management, ice avalanche, avalanche simulation, hazard assessment; View additional details about Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face

Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham; Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...; Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf; Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure; View additional details about Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015

Title: Towards the Evaluation of Human Factors in Avalanche Early Warning Systems: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Martina Saettele, Michael Bruendl, Kilian Zwirglmaier; Description: Early warning systems (EWS) play a crucial role in managing the risks posed by avalanches and other mass-movement processes to settlements and infrast...; Object ID: ISSW16_O10.01.pdf; Keywords: early warning system, human factors, reliability, decision-making; View additional details about Towards the Evaluation of Human Factors in Avalanche Early Warning Systems

Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Jerry Isaak; Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...; Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf; Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks; View additional details about Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain

Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel; Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...; Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf; Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate; View additional details about Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland

Title: Learn â€“ E-learning Lessons About Avalanches: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Stephan Harvey, Armin Rempfler; Description: "Learning by doing" is an obvious credo for every educator. In avalanche terrain, we do this most of the time. However, learning about avalanches also...; Object ID: ISSW16_O13.03.pdf; Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, e-learning, avalanche danger assessment, avalanche awareness; View additional details about Learn â€“ E-learning Lessons About Avalanches

Title: The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Albert Lunde, Ove NjÃ¥; Description: In Norway, snow avalanches hitting roads are a considerable safety challenge for the rescue services. Previous studies have given rise to wondering ab...; Object ID: ISSW16_P3.11.pdf; Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk management, reliability, risk indicators, bayesian belief networks; View additional details about The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network

Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact â€“ The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Dieter Issler, JÃ³nsson Ãrni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas; Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...; Object ID: ISSW16_O16.03.pdf; Keywords:; View additional details about Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact â€“ The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19

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; View additional details about Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways

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