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8. Problems in Communications
Pages 62-68

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From page 62...
... The Avalanche Review, the official publication of the American Association of Avalanche Professionals, and the International Snow Science Workshop, held in the United States or Canada every 2 years, are useful instruments for technology transfer. Avalanche Review is a nonprofit publication that provides information transfer between researcher and practitioner and background information for the general public.
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From page 63...
... The former Alpine Snow and Avalanche Project collected mountain weather and avalanche event data from numerous ski areas and observation sites in the western states, which are now the basis of the Westw~de data network, managed at a reduced level by the CATC. The CATC publishes a monthly newsletter, Avalanche Notes, from November through April, that summarizes monthly weather and avalanche events and provides a narrative of avalanche accidents for each month from the western states and Alaska.
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From page 64...
... Sponsoring, conducting, and participating in topical and areal seminars, workshops, short courses, technology utilization sessions, cluster meetings, innovative transfer meetings, training symposia, and other discussions with user groups. Releasing information needed to address critical avalanche hazards early through oral briefings, seminars, map-type "interpretive inventories," open-file reports, reports of cooperating agencies, and "official use only" materials.
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From page 65...
... Preparing model state avalanche safety legislation, regulations, and development policies. Preparing model local avalanche safety policies, plan criteria, and plan implementation devices.
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... The AAS conducted more than 100 major workshops involving over Il,000 participant-days of training, provided hundreds of shorter lectures and workshops for schools and civic groups, and generated avalanche information to the public through the media. When funding for the statewide avalanche program was terminated in 1986, the Alaska Mountain Safety Center was established by private individuals as a nonprofit educational organization to operate the Alaska Avalanche School.
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... The United States would benefit from enhanced access to this increasingly significant body of technological information. Technology transfer could be improved by more frequent seminars, training sessions, and publications to disseminate information on new developments.
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... 6. The National Avalanche School and comparable AAl programs are basic in nature.
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