Main sponsor ISSW 2024
The ISSW (International Snow Science Workshop) is the largest snow and avalanche conference in the world. This year, the important conference will take place from September 23 – 29, 2024 in Tromsø, Northern Norway.
The ISSW (International Snow Science Workshop) facilitates interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences, and the conference will welcome stakeholders and snow professionals from all around the world. Attendance from around 800 snow science researchers, recreationalists and expert practitioners are expected, to address and discuss the ongoing discourses within the snow community.
More information on thematic focus will come, but the overall objective follows the conference´s motto; “A merging of theory and practice”. Through a wide range of presentation formats, the ISSW offer an including gathering ground which facilitates direct interaction amongst the audience, participants, and snow professionals.
As the main sponsor, we are very proud to be able to support the most important congress for of avalanche professionals and snow researchers in the world.
We look forward to your visit in Tromsø!
Preliminary topics of the conference
- Avalanche dynamics and modelling
- Avalanche education and learning
- Avalanche forecasting and operational tools
- Avalanche risk, snow hydrology and snow making in a changing climate
- Case studies: operations, avalanche control, accidents and rescue
- Decision-making strategies among professionals and recreationalists Instrumentation, monitoring and detection
- Law and worker's safety
- Remote sensing of snow and avalanches
- Risk communication
- Risk management, mitigation measures and communication in engineering practise
- Snow mechanics: stability, variability and snowpack modelling
- Snow, avalanche and forest interaction
Impressions ISSW 2023 from Bend OR, USA:
