SFU Avalanche Research Program

With a week since our return from Bend, Oregon, we’re reflecting on the incredible week at the ISSW. With so many great moments, it's hard to sum up the whole experience, but we'd like to share a few of our highlights! ✨

We are so grateful for the monumental effort of the ISSW organizers in bringing together such an engaged, passionate, motivated, and supportive group of people from all around the world 🌍🏔️Thank you also to all those who attended our presentations, struck up conversations, and stoked our research fire!🔥We are excited to connecting again and to keep contributing to the important work being done in the snow and avalanche industry 🤝

In her master’s research, Anneliese introduced audience segmentation to avalanche research, an approach that seeks to understand target audiences. Anneliese’s thesis is composed of two papers which, together, offer a richer and more holistic picture of the winter backcountry community for the improvement, design, and evaluation of avalanche safety initiatives. You can find these papers here: https://avalancheresearch.ca/pubs/2023_neweduk_thesis/.