Two graduate students at Simon Fraser University’s Avalanche Research Program published their respective theses recently.
Rosemary Langford published her master’s thesis, How do recreationists manage avalanche risk when travelling in the winter backcountry? Centering the stories of recreationists to identify, characterize, and contextualize avalanche risk management decision-making. Rosie’s research looks at recreationists’ risk management practices by using qualitative social science methods that centered the stories of recreationists to identify, characterize, and contextualize their avalanche risk management decision-making.
Stan Nowak completed his PhD thesis, Designing for ambiguity in sensemaking: Visual analytics in risk analysis and prediction. His paper “investigates how visual analytics tools and techniques can address ambiguity in complex risk assessment, prediction, and monitoring, focusing on the domain of avalanche forecasting.
Congratulations to Stan and Rosemary.