ISSW'98 Daily Workshop & Papers and Posters Agenda
Paper and Poster Sessions listed below are linked to corresponding abstracts
SUNDAY, September 27th
18:00-20:00 Registration and Mixer
20:00-22:00 Welcoming Presentation: Paul Bauger, MC
Roland Emetaz, Glen Katzenberger, Ken White and Paul Baugher
History of Northwest Avalanches
MONDAY, September 28th
07:00-
Registration
08:00-08:30 Introduction
Mark Moore, ISSW'98 Chair
Avalanche Control Bill Williamson, Session Chair
08:30-08:50 Reid Bahnson
Avalanche control in the Brooks Range, Alaska an environment of extremes
08:50-09:10 Todd Semmes
Avalanche control and photographic studies of slab avalanches in Heather Canyon, Mt Hood,
Oregon
09:10-09:30 Lawrence Redfern
Snow avalanche safety in the B.C. forest industry
09:30-09:50 John Barker
Benefits of larger volume ANFO airblasts in avalanche control at Alpental
09:50-10:00 Discussion: Avalanche Control
10:00-10:30 Break
Mountain Snowpack Larry Heywood, Session Chair
10:30-10:50 Robert E. Davis, Kelly Elder, Daniel Howlett, and Eddy Bouzaglou
Storm and terrain factors related to dry slab avalanche activity
10:50-11:10 Hansueli Gubler --Presented by R.A. Schmidt
A model to determine snow surface properties from remote measurements
11:10-11:30 Jerome B. Johnson
Characterizing
the microstructural and micromechanical properties of snow
11:30-11:40 Discussion: Mountain Snowpack
Blowing Snow Renee Lang, Session Chair
11:40-12:00 Peter Gauer
Numerical snow drift modeling in complex alpine terrain and comparison with field-measurements
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 Thomas K. Thiis
LargeScale Measurements of Snowdrifts around Flat Roofed and Desk Roofed Buildings
Surface Hoar and Depth Hoar Renee Lang, Session Chair
13:50-14:10 Bruce Jamieson and Colin Johnston
Snowpack factors associated with strength changes of buried surface hoar layers
14:10-14:30 Robert E. Davis, Bruce Jamieson, and Colin Johnston
Observations on buried surface hoar in British Columbia, Canada: section analysis of layer
evolution and associated strength measurements
14:30-14:50 E.M. Arons, S.C. Colbeck, and J.M.N.T. Gray
Depth hoar growth rates near a rocky outcrop
14:50-15:00 Discussion: Surface Hoar and Depth
Hoar
15:00-15:30 Break
Avalanche Rescue Jack Benetto, Session Chair
15:30-15:50 Brian Sali and Art Keys
Avalanche on Newberry Crater: a firsthand account of a snowmobiler avalanche accident and
subsequent rescue--January 15, 1998
15:50-16:10 J. Margid, C. Harmston, C. Hatton, N. Biedleman, C. Crowley, and T. Crowley
O2 and CO2 Levels with the Black Diamond AvaLung During Human Snow Burials Lasting up to One Hour16:10-16:30 John Hereford and Bruce Edgerly
Avalanche rescue transceivers: the next generation
16:30-16:50 Gerald Kampel and Marcus L.
Peterson
Digital vs. analog technology in the avalanche rescue field
16:50-17:10 Discussion: Rescue
19:00- ??? Meetings of the American and Canadian Avalanche Associations
TUESDAY, September 29th
Regional Avalanche Forecasting Ron Johnson, Session Chair
08:00-08:20 Magnus Mar Magnusson
The buildup of the avalanche section of the Icelandic Meteorological Office
08:20-08:40 Svandjorg Helga Haraldsdottir
The effect of avalanche accidents on the avalanche history and avalanche work in Iceland
08:40-09:00 Tom Russi, W. Ammann, Th. Stucki, B. Brabec
Avalanche warning Switzerland 2000: a new concept and its implementation
09:00-09:20 S.S. Sharma and A. Ganju
Complexities of avalanche forecasting in western Himalya -- an overview
09:20-09:40 Knox Williams
An overview of avalanche forecasting in North America
09:40-10:00 Discussion: Regional avalanche
forecasting
10:00-10:30 Break
Mountain Weather and Climate Pam Hayes, Session Chair
10:30-10:50 Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Laurent Mérindol, and Haraldur Olafsson
A method for the forecasting of wind in mountainous terrain
10:50-11:10 Garth Ferber
Verification of MM5 precipitation forecasts in the Washington and north Oregon Cascades
11:10-11:30 Robert Rice Jr., Steve Conger, and Ralph Patterson
Contributory weather events leading to snow avalanching in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
11:30-11:50 Philippe Rogerio Caterino
Reconstructing ancient avalanches of the Sierra Nevada range
11:50-12:00 Discussion: Mountain weather and
climate
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Mountain Weather and Snow Instrumentation Daniel Howlett, Session Chair
13:30-13:50 R. Bolognesi, V. Chritin, and H. Gubler
FlowCapt: a new acoustic sensor to measure snowdrift and wind velocity for avalanche
forecasting
13:50-14:10 Michel Louge, Robert Foster, Newel Jensen, and Ralph Patterson
A portable capacitance snow sounding instrument
14:10-14:30 Christopher Lundy and Edward E. Adams
Nondestructive collection of natural snow for use with CT scan analysis
14:30-14:50 Tsutomu Nakamura, Reina Tamura, Takeshi Ohta, and Osamu Abe
Spectral reflectance of snow
14:50-15:10 Michael Lehning, Perry Bartelt, Bob Brown, Tom Russi, Urs Stöckli, Thomas Stucki, and Martin Zimmerli
A new network of automatic weather and snow stations and supplementary model calculations providing high resolution snowpack information to the avalanche warning services in Switzerland
15:10-15:20 Discussion: Mountain Weather and
Snow Instrumentation
15:20-15:30 Introduction to poster session
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 POSTER SESSION with no-host bar
Poster Presentations Paul Bauger, Session Chair
Susan A. Burak, Eddy Bouzaglou, and Robert E. Davis
Distributed observations of snow accumulation and avalanche response
A. Denoth
Wet snow pendular regime: the amount of water in ring-shaped
configurations
Andy Gleason
Statistical comparison of Rutchblock stability test with skis and
snowboard (shredblock test)
Kristi Heuer, Kathy Tonnessen, and George P. Ingersoll
Comparison of chemical loading to the Colorado Rocky Mountain
snowpack with annual wet deposition data collected as part of the National Atmospheric
Deposition Program
Y. Kamata, M. Takahashi, A. Sato
Experiments of depth hoar formation under extremely low temperature
K. Kosugi, O. Abe, A. Sato, Y. Nohguchi, K. Nishimura, Y. Ito, M. Nemoto, and K. Izumi
Basal stress measurements of artificial avalanches
Eugeny Mokrov
Rime and glazed frost formation in the Khibini Mountains
Joe Stock, Kelly Elder, and Karl Birkeland
The growth of near-surface faceted crystals and their effect on snow stability, Red Mountain Pass corridor, Colorado
Charles Fierz and Peter Gauer
Snow-cover evolution in complex alpine terrain: measurements and modeling including snow drift effects
Ethan M. Greene, Glen E. Liston, and Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
Simulation of above treeline snowdrift formation using a numerical
snow-transport model
Per-Arne Sundsbø and Børre Bang
Calculation of snow drift over a roadside crash barrier
A. Hachikubu, J. McElwaine, M. Nemoto, T. Kaihara, J.T. Yamada, and K. Nishimura
A study of an avalanche at the ski resort Niseko, Japan
Martin I. Radwin, Larry Keyes, and Donna L. Radwin
Avalanche air space physiology
Frank P. Rossi
Avalanche probeline Guidon cord
Frank P. Rossi
Avalanche one-piece probe pole
Osamu Abe, Hiroo Sato, Mitsuharu Chiba, and Shizuo Tanasawa
Prototype of the advanced snow sonde
R. Bolognesi, V. Chritin, and H. Gubler
FlowCapt: a new acoustic sensor to measure snowdrift and wind
velocity for avalanche forecasting
Martin Schneebeli, Christine Pielmeier, and Jerome B. Johnson
Measuring snow structure and hardness using a high resolution
penetrometer
Yasuaki Nohguchi
Portable avalanche simulators for science education, Nadaranger 1-2-3
Yasuaki Nohguchi
Activities of the international yukigata research group
Dick Chisholm
What is a secure knot for joining poly ropes?
R.L. "Sam" Davis
Zen in the art of avalanche forecasting or The dancing Wu Li forecasters
Stephan Harvey, Roland Meister, Heiri Leuthold, and Britta Allgšwer
Verification of the Swiss avalanche bulletin using Geographical
Information Systems (GIS)
Nicholas Logan
Forecasting avalanches from atmospheric cross-sections
S. Savage and R. Spence
South face expansion at Big Sky: the first three years
Craig Sterbenz
Slope compaction and deep slab instability: alternative avalanche
risk management
19:00-20:00 PANEL DISCUSSION- Avalanches and the 2002 Olympics Bruce Tremper, Session Chair
20:00-22:00 VIDEOS
WEDNESDAY, September 30th
Information Management Dan Judd, Session Chair
08:00-08:20 Karl W. Birkeland
Spatial and temporal patterns of snow stability throughout a small mountain range
08:20-08:40 Stefan Margreth and Martin Funk
Hazard mapping for ice and combined snow/ice avalanches -- two case studies from the Swiss
and Italian Alps
08:40-09:00 Roland V. Emetaz
On-site interpretation -- a tool for increasing avalanche awareness
09:00-09:20 Jon Andrews
A ski area hazard rating for avalanche potential at the Stevens Pass ski area - a forecasting tool using the United States avalanche danger rating scale for ski area application
09:20-09:40 Daniel Howlett and Randy Trover
A decade of data dilemma; the development of a relational database at Alta, Utah
09:40-10:00 K. Izumi and Y. Nohguchi
How has a hexagonal snow crystal been arranged on science and design?
10:00-10:30 Break
Avalanche Forecast Systems Bruce Jamieson, Session Chair
10:30-10:50 Robert Bolognesi
NivoLog: an avalanche forecasting support system
10:50-11:10 A. Ganju, D.K. Prashar, and Naresh Thakur
Analysis of process oriented avalanche forecasting technique followed at SASE, Manali,
India
11:10-11:30 Pavel A. Chernouss and Yury V. Fedorenko
Stochastic forecasting for snow slab stability
11:30-11:50 David McClung
The human factors in avalanche forecasting
11:50-12:00 Discussion: Avalanche forecast
systems
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Liability Chris Stethem, Session Chair
13:30-13:50 Joseph Shults
Development and liability in the Ophir valley, Colorado
13:50-14:10 Norm Wilson and Larry Heywood
The Alpine Meadows road: avalanches, real estate and politics
14:10-14:30 Mike Stanford, Michael Shinn, and Debora Gillespie
Avalanches and liability
14:30-14:50 Steven M. Conger and Richie Taylor
An investigation of change in avalanche hazard for a specific highway
14:50-15:00 Discussion: Liability
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION --Modern Avalanche Education Geoff Freer, Session Chair
18:00-??? BANQUET- Rich Marriott, MC
With Mixer, & Keynote Address by Ed LaChapelle and Norm Wilson
THURSDAY, October 1st
Snow Stability Jerry Johnson, Session Chair
08:00-08:20 H. Conway and C. Wilbour
Why should we measure snow accumulation and density, air temperature, wind speed and direction, as well as paying attention to slope angle and aspect?
08:20-08:40 Peter Hoeller
Snow stability and its variation in course of time
08:40-09:00 Alain Duclos
Slab avalanches and "new" snow
09:00-09:20 Jürg Schweizer
Contribution on the role of deficit zones or imperfections in dry-snow slab-avalanche
release
09:20-09:40 Mark Newcomb and Jim Conway
Sluff management
09:40-10:00 Discussion: Snow stability
10:00-10:30 Break
Effects of Warming and Rain Craig Wilbour, Session Chair
10:30-10:50 R.S. Rosso, D. Howlett, and S. Calhoun
Snowpack temperature and tensile strength
10:50-11:10 A. Wilson, J. Schweizer, C. Johnson, and B. Jamieson
Stability changes resulting from surface warming of a dry snow pack with buried weak
layers
11:10-11:30 H.-P. Marshall and H. Conway
Densification of alpine snow in a maritime climate
11:30-11:50 Randall Osterhuber and Richard Kattelmann
Warm storms associated with avalanche hazard in the Sierra Nevada
11:50-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 Pavel Chernouss, Olga Tyapkina, Erik Hestness, and Steinar Bakkehoei
Statistical methods of slushflow situations recognition
13:50-14:00 Discussion: Effects of warming and
rain
Avalanche Dynamics Hansueli Gubler, Session Chair
14:00-14:20 K. Nishimua, Y. Nohguchi, J. McElwaine, S. Keller, Y Ito, and K. Izumi
Experiments and numerical simulation of ping-pong ball avalanches
14:20-14:40 Angelo Kokenakis and Lee Dexter
The rime river
14:40-15:00 Walter J. Amman, François Dufour, and Mark Schär
A new test-site for avalanche experiments in the Vallée de la Sionne/ Valais
15:00-15:30 Break
Snow Stability Testing Evelyn Lees, Session Chair
15:30-15:50 Ron Johnson and Karl Birkeland
Effectively using and interpreting stability tests
15:50-16:10 Craig Sterbenz
The "bridgeblock" or cantilever beam test
16:10-16:30 Art Mears
Measurements of tensile strength and strength changes in new snow layers
16:30-17:00 Closing Remarks
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