Issues

JSAR publications are freely available for viewing or download. Click on the links below to view/download individual articles or each full volume.

Volume 6, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial. Meredith, T.
• Deriving Objective Probability of Detection for Missing-Person Search: Validating Use of Effective Sweep Width and Associated Mathematical Models. Chiacchia, KB & Houlahan, HE
• Optimizing Wilderness Search and Rescue: Discovery and Outcome. Rossmo, DK, Velarde, L & Mahood, T
• Postmortem submersion intervals in the River Thames. Greatbatch, I, Livingstone, D, Hunter, G & Saunderson, Y

Volume 5, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial. Greatbatch, I
• Object recognition and detection: Potential implications from vision science for wilderness searching. McClanahan, S.
• ECHO: Developing a multi-hazard incident risk assessment tool for swiftwater and flood rescue. Glassey, S.
• Book Review: NORTH SHORE RESCUE If You Get Lost Today, Will Anyone Know? by Allen Billy. Peterson, R.
• New Zealand Search and Rescue fatality data: Creating targeted prevention messaging. MacIver, K, Thirkell, C, Mitchell, G, van der Meulen, C & Asbury, EA

Volume 4, Issue 2 (full pdf)

• Editorial. Greatbatch, I
• Letter: Operation Braidwood. O’Neill, D
• The Paradigm Shift in Search and Rescue Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic in California. Young, C
• Comparing the impact of COVID-19 on Search and Rescue and Fire emergency incident responses. Koester, R & Greatbatch, I
• Decontamination of Technical Rope Rescue Equipment in the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus pandemic. Greatbatch, I., Allen I & Williams, DG
• Review of Search and Rescue Response Guidelines to COVID-19.
  Koester, R
• Appendix: COVSAR COVID-19 Protocols. Commonwealth of Virginia Search & Rescue

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Volume 4, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial. Koester, R
• “History of the William G. Syrotuck Symposium on Search Theory and Practice” Long, C
• “William Syrotuck Foreword” LaValla, R
• List of Syrotuck Symposium 2018 Presentation Abstracts
• “Lost Person Behavior – Statistics from Iceland” Eysteinsson, E
• “Constructive Deviance in Search and Rescue Teams: Getting Around Regulations” Rhea, I. Haws, J. & Hammond, SC
• “Highly Reliable Teams in Search and Rescue: Seven Characteristics of Excellence” Hammond, SC & Taylor, JY
• “Land Search and Rescue Probability of Detection: New sweep widths values, correction factors, models, and detection model validation” Koester, RJ
• “Enhancements to Statistical Probability of Area Models based upon updated ISRID data collection for Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Typically Developing Children” Koester, RJ
• “A Pragmatic Approach to Applied Search Theory” Mansfield, G, Carlson, J., Merrifield, D., Rosenberg, E., Swanson, E. & Templin, P.
• “The U.S. National Search and Rescue School – Inland” Rockwood, GC
• “The SAR Planning ‘P’ Process” Wright, S & Smith, R
• “The Search Intelligence Process” Young, CS
• William G. Syrotuck Symposium on Search Theory and Practice Participants

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Volume 3, Issue 2 (full pdf)

• “Water Rescue within UKSAR: consent, capacity and necessity” Esler, Goodman and Wood
• “Optimizing Wilderness Search and Rescue: A Bayesian GIS Analysis” Rossmo, Velarde and Mahood
• “Gender Differences in the Journey to Suicide: Comparing distance decay functions of home and found locations in missing person reports to the police” Stevens, Giles and O’Brien

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Volume 3, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial and content list
• “UAVs for Wilderness SAR: Real World Considerations & Technology Roadmap For Fixed Wing UAVs” Bashyam and Guggenheim

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Volume 2, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial and content list
• “Raft on a high line: Loads and trim” Onions and Collins
• “Factors influencing the performance of visual distress signals” Bullough
• “Emergency Urban Search” Dourtchev, Witkowski, Mardell and Spence

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Volume 1, Issue 3 (full pdf)

• “Improving the performance of swift-water rescue quick release harnesses” Collins and Onions
• “Evidentiary data collection from Global Positioning Systems: A qualitative study from a Queensland Police Search Coordinator’s perspective” Magnus
• “Emotional intelligence, coping style, and social support as predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder” Kelly, Scott, and Bryan
• Letter: “The use of twitter as an early warning system for terrestrial search and rescue” Greatbatch
• Book review: “A practitioner’s study: about rope rescue rigging” (Rhodes, 2014), Glassey

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Volume 1, Issue 2 (full pdf)

• “Case study: perceived usability of emergency communication equipment with and without protective gloves in the cold” Jussila, Sormunen, and Remes.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• “Auditory and Light Based Two-Way Effective Sweep Width for Responsive Search Subjects in New Zealand Mountainous Terrain” Koester, Wells, Gordon, and Tucker
• “Time Required For a Drowning Victim to Reach Bottom” Hunsucker and Davison
• “Analysis of urban search and rescue markings applied following the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake” Glassey