Adventure Risk Research Symposium

 Join us with research from Australia, Canada and the United States. Free to join via zoom. 6 th Annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium 2024, as part of the Wilderness Risk Management Conference Online and Salt Lake City, Utah Co-Chairs: Dr Jeff Jackson and Dr Clare Dallat Tuesday October 15, 2024: 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT https://algonquincollege.zoom.us/j/93752081776?pwd=zPxXWE1ALmLCRni58mLjfPAZJYrsyo.1   Meeting ID:        937 5208 1776:            Password:                 043631   Towards a Wildfire Danger Rating System for Outdoor Adventure Programs Brendan Madden, Outward Bound Canada; WRMC Steering Committee Danger rating scales are a common tool in outdoor risk management. For example, in North America, avalanche forecasters use a scale that grades the avalanche hazard from low to extreme for individual geographic locations. Outdoor adventure programs (OAPs) operating in avalanche terrain will have designed operational policies and parameters for different po

Call for research presentations! Join us at the 6th annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium held in conjunction with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference October 15-17, 2024. We invite all adventure risk management and outdoor safety researchers to submit an abstract or research summary for consideration. From these submissions, you may be invited to author a short research paper and present your findings at the symposium. Our goal is to showcase a range of findings, methods, researchers and topics for discussion! Our intention is to find a place for any relevant, empirical research. The abstract or summary for consideration is informal and only a couple of paragraphs, and just includes:  context of the research and research question methods, data set and collection (in brief i.e. 1 paragraph) key findings From these submissions a collection of researchers will be asked to proceed to author a short paper and present their findings at our symposium. Short paper guidelines and pres

Thank you to all who attended and presented at this year's Adventure Risk Research Symposium. We had presenters from India, Australia, Canada, and the United States, covering a wide range of research topics and methods.  Find the proceedings and short papers here . Look for our call for papers again in the spring for next fall's symposium!

 Hit the link to see the collection of short papers from the 2022 Adventure Risk Research Symposium. You will find the following papers: Understanding climber behaviour in climbing gyms, Jon Heshka, pg. 3 Fatal Incident Patterns Involving Canadian Minors Engaged in Outdoor Learning Activities, Stephen Richie, pg. 9 Developing Safety Competence Among Adventure Guides in the Arctic: A comparison of safety guides’ education in Svalbard, Iceland, and Greenland, Barbara Olga Hild, pg. 16 The Impacts of Social Affiliations Post-Accident: Relationships that help and hinder, Kelli McMahan, pg. 26 Comparative Case Study of Outdoor Education Fatalities in Canada, Jeff Jackson, pg. 33 Second Victims in Outdoor and Adventure Programs – Early data summary, Denise Mitten, pg. 41 The Adventure Risk Research Symposium is a forum to showcase the latest research in adventure risk management and safety research.  Watch for our call for pres

 Link to slides here for Jeff Jackson's presentation 'Best of ARRS', 3:30pm Oct 21 https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyccq8wg59uvesv/ARRS22%20greatest%20hits.pptx?dl=0

 Oct. 18 saw our fourth annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium with 7 presenters talking their research and sharing their findings. You can watch the recorded session at the link below (with the first 3 minutes missing!).  The short papers will be compiled and available for free at this site. Also look for other posts with links to the ebook compilation of papers from the first three years. https://algonquincollege.zoom.us/rec/share/A431vdbEUphBStRndscwhQRCNU-BdtpMjaPG6S-0fRqeXncrW-nCIV1jumBOAALv.ddkiPhIbZI6EvmEK Passcode: p3.%@.x7