https://doi.org/10.61618/UZFP8310 Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Journal of Search and Rescue. It is with sincere gratitudeand humility that I write this inaugural editorial, having recently joined the editorial board. To beinvited to serve in this capacity is both an honour and a privilege, and I take this opportunity witha strong sense of … Read more
Editorial Newsome, A. ORIGINAL RESEARCH Head, Belt, Boots: Obtaining Consistent Probability of Detection in Human Visual SearchChiacchia, KB, Billings, HJ, and Houlahan HEProbability Modelling for Optimization of Evidence SearchesGuy Mansfield, G, Rosenberg, E, Decker, K and Templin, P LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter To the Editor: Australian Search Urgency Assessment FormWhitehead, J
Jim Whitehead, PhDEmail: ssarcoqld@hotmail.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/SJLE4240 Abstract The Australian Search Urgency Assessment (SUA) form is used by search coordinators as a meansof determining the level of response to a Search and Rescue (SAR) incident.A recent inquest into the death of a young snowboarder and the use of the SUA highlighted the needfor this form to be regularly … Read more
Guy Mansfield PhD, Eric Rosenberg BA, Kathleen Decker BA and Peter Templin BSWashington State SAR Planning UnitUSAEmail jgmansfield@msn.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/RYXP8966 Abstract Evidence searches (seeking human remains or objects related to criminal cases) havecharacteristics that differ from searches for lost persons. Often, evidence searches arefocused on relatively small areas and seek hard-to-detect objects that may have been initiallyconcealed … Read more
Kenneth B. Chiacchia, PhD1 ,Heather J. Billings, PhD1,2 and Heather E. Houlahan, ABD11Mountaineer Area Rescue Group, Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference, Morgantown, WV, U.S.A.2Department of Pathology, Anatomy & Laboratory Medicine, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center,Morgantown, WV, U.S.A.Email chiacchiakb@gmail.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/FLEB2002 Abstract A key lost-person search method is the “grid team,” a line of searchers moving abreast … Read more
Ken MacIver, BA, PGC (Para), PGC Health Prac Ed, PGC Resus, MPP, Callum Thirkell, BCA, BHSc (Para), PGC(Para), Glenn Mitchell, ICP, MPA, Carl van der Meulen*, BA(hons) & Elizabeth A. Asbury#, BSc (Hons),MSc, Ph.D. School of Health, Whitireia New Zealand, Porirua, New Zealand and *New Zealand Search and Rescue,Wellington, New Zealand. E-mail: Elizabeth.Asbury@Whitireia.ac.nz http://dx.doi.org/10.61618/DEET5746 Abstract … Read more