2023 Canadian Avalanche Association Spring Meetings

Pascal Haegeli
Facilitating a More User-centered Design of Avalanche Safety Products and Services

Simon Horton & Pascal Haegeli
Research on Avalanche Problems: Where do We Go Next to Improve Hazard Assessments?

Rosie Langford & Pascal Haegeli
How do Winter Backcountry Recreationists Make Avalanche Risk Management Decisions?

Anneliese Neweduk & Pascal Haegeli
More Holistic and Informative Approach for Characterizing Backcountry Community

Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton & Patrick Mair
Validating Snowpack Simulations for Critical Layers

John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins, & Mike Welch
Characterizing the 2023 Guiding Season – from the guide on the ground and from GPS and avalanche terrain data

2022 AGU Fall Meeting

Florian Herla, Simon Horton, and Pascal Haegeli
An informative Large-Scale Validation of Snowpack Simulations in Support of Avalanche Forecasting in Canada

Simon Horton, Florian Herla & Pascal Haegeli
Dynamically Aggregating Avalanche Forecast Regions Based on Simulated Snow Profiles

John Sykes, Havard Larsen & Pascal Haegeli
Automated Avalanche Exposure Scale (ATES) Mapping

2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis

Rosie Langford & Pascal Haegeli
How do winter backcountry recreationists make avalanche risk management decisions?

2022 Canadian Avalanche Association Spring Meetings

Pascal Haegeli
SFU Avalanche Research Program—Where to Next?

Simon Horton & Florian Herla
Latest Advances in Snowpack Modelling—Operational Forecasting Tools and the Research Behind Them

Heather Hordowick
Insights into Avalanche Problem Assessments in Public Forecasting

Chugach Avalanche Center Forecaster Chat

John Sykes interviewing Pascal Haegeli
Could the avalanche forecast be more effective?

2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Risk Analysis

Pascal Haegeli
Enhancing the Value of Hazard Communications with Education Interventions

Katie Fisher
Testing Improvements to Avalanche Terrain Exposure Communication in Daily Avalanche Forecasts

2021 Canadian Avalanche Association Spring Meetings

John Sykes
Automated ATES Mapping

Katie Fisher
Insight into Travel and Terrain Advice

Stan Nowak
Interactive Visualizations for Avalanche Hazard Assessments

Simon Horton
Anticipating persistent problems in Coastal Areas – Lessons from Operational Snowpack Modelling this Season

Amelie Goulet-Boucher
Recreationists Use of Social Media and Decision Making

2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Risk Analysis

Pascal Haegeli
Addressing the Murky Mid-Range of Hazard and Risk Scales

2020 AGU Fall Meeting

Florian Herla
Snow profile analysis: Aggregating, clustering, evaluating of snowpack data for avalanche forecasting

2020 American Avalanche Association - Online Seminar Series

Pascal Haegeli
Avalanche Airbags – What we know from research

2020 Colorado Snow and Avalanche Workshop

Simon Horton
Snow Modeling 101 and Applications for Practitioners

Simon Horton
Snow Modeling 101 and Applications for Practitioners
Question Period

Pascal Haegeli
Learning About the Readers of Our Backcountry Avalanche Forecasts?

Pascal Haegeli
Learning About the Readers of Our Backcountry Avalanche Forecasts?
Question Period

2020 Virtual Snow Science Workshop

Pascal Haegeli
How to make avalanche bulletins more effective – Lessons from studying user practices?

2020 Virtual CAA Spring Meetings

Pascal Haegeli
Do Recreationists have the Skills They Need To Use the Bulletin Effectively?

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Katie Fisher
Studying the Effects of Avalanche Safety Information, Interactivity, and Feedback on Route Choice Selection?

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Florian Herla
Computer Assistance for Avalanche Forecasting

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John Sykes
Assessing Avalanche Terrain Exposure

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2019 US Snow and Avalanche Workshops

Henry Finn @ NSAW
How Do Recreationists Understand Avalanche Bulletin Information?

Anne St Clair @ WYSAW
Could the Avalanche Bulletin be More Effective?

2019 CAA Spring Meetings

Moses Towell
Exploring the link between modeled weather and snowpack conditions and avalanche problems

Pascal Haegeli
Do avalanche airbag lead to riskier choice in the backcountry?

Stan Nowak
Designing visualization tools for avalanche forecasters?

Anne St Clair
Could the avalanche bulletin be more effective?

Henry Finn
Survey insights – Probing for population-wide patterns of avalanche bulletin use in North America?

Simon Horton
What if you could dig two thousand pits a day?

2018 Northwest Snow and Avalanche Workshop

Henry Finn
What type of bulletin user are you?

Pascal Haegeli
Do avalanche airbag lead to riskier choice in the backcountry?

Note: There was an error in the analysis of the discrete choice experiment included in this presentation. Please watch this video instead.

2018 CAA Spring Meetings

Taylor Clark
What’s the danger rating for a storm slab avalanche problem with likely avalanches up to size 2?

Anne St Clair & Henry Finn
What Would Jerry and Sally Do? Exploring avalanche bulletin use and comprehension

Brendan Wakefield
Capturing the Essence of Heliskiing Terrain

Reto Sterchi
Extracting Unique Terrain Classes, using the operational knowledge stored in run list data

Pascal Haegeli
Exploring the Effect of El Nino and the Artic Oscillation on the nature of avalanche hazard in western Canada

Simon Horton
Will Computers Forecast Avalanches? Steps towards automated hazard assessments

2017 Northwest Snow & Avalanche Workshop

Bret Shandro
What can the ENSO forecast tell us about the upcoming winter?

2017 CAA Spring Meetings

Reto Sterchi
Identifying patterns in professional terrain choices using self-organizing maps

Matthias Walcher
The HeliCat Canada Sector Risk Projects

Bret Shandro
Incorporating Avalanche Hazard into the Concept of Avalanche Climate