During the May 2019 trip to Switzerland, Pat Veillette (shown here) and students ventured across the snow-covered terrain to observe how the snow coverage could hide underlying threats in the snowpack ...
The transportation industry has a human factors problem. Consider this: From 2005 to 2009, the volume of fatal crashes involving large trucks or buses dropped by a third. At the time, it felt like ...
While attending a course on avalanche safety, students learned how to analyze a snowpack. They subsequently prepared a landing site for an EMS helicopter. This required assessing the hazards to a ...