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- EIN 80-0674646
- (907) 255-2242
- Po Box 911 Valdez AK 99686-0911 USA
- http://www.alaskasnow.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Disaster Aid, Disaster Preparedness & Relief Services
Mission: The aaic mission is to support and provide public avalanche forecasts and education while promoting the exchange of snow stability observations for alaska. The aaic objectives are:- to provide public avalanche forecasts and snow observation information. - to provide high quality avalanche forecasting and rescue skills training. - to coordinate snow observers and the posting of their snow, weather, and avalanche observations. - to strengthen community connections between business, industry, government, search and rescue organizations, and winter recreation groups. - to host practitioners' online data collection and exchange. - to promote and facilitate snow and avalanche research. - to promote and facilitate continuing professional development.
Programs: Forecasting: alaska avalanche information center (aaic) produced public avalanche bulletins and/or snow observations for all of the major mountain regions in alaska and provided avalanche education to the backcountry travelers. The aaic website provides active regional observations pages for hatchers pass, haines, seward, fairbanks / northern alaska range, and the anchorage / eagle river area. The valdez avalanche center (aaic:valdez) and cordova avalanche center (aaic:cordova) produced 300 avalanche bulletins between september 2009 and may 2010.
education: aaic provided avalanche education to hundreds of alaskans in the 2009/2010 season including awareness outreach seminars for elementary school, high school, and college students, american institute for avalanche research and education (aiare) level 1 and 2 courses for backcountry users and professionals, the aaic snowmobile specific avalanche education program, and the aaic womens studies program. Aaic:valdez also trained two full time interns.
rescue: aaic performs rescue training, participates with inter-agency rescue response, and provides site specific rescue services for extreme sports events, like tailgate alaska.