The Young Snow Professional (YSP) Award was created in 2018 for the ISSW in Innsbruck, Austria. The YSP award acknowledges the dedication and efforts of young (<30 years old) snow and avalanche researchers and practitioners who have submitted abstracts to ISSW. The YSP awards were selected by the Science Program Committee and supported by the American Avalanche Association and the ISSW 2023 local organizing committee. In addition, two YSP recipients were selected and supported by the Austrian association for snow and avalanches (OEGSL). We welcome other organizations from other countries to sponsor and support YSP awards in the future.

Recipients of the 2023 ISSW YSP Awards include:

Amelie Fees presenting: Glide-snow avalanches: the influence of spatial variation in interfacial friction and snow cover on avalanche release. 

Anneliese Neweduk presenting: Characterizing an increasingly diverse and growing backcountry community: A holistic and informative approach using the concept of personas.

Martin Perfler presenting: Assessing avalanche problems for operational avalanche forecasting based on different model chains.

Veronika Hatvan presenting: A model-chain approach to assess and predict local avalanche risk.