Happy International Women's Day! 🎉
Here's to the incredible women who make the work we do at the ABMI possible.
🔗 Visit our media and story hub to explore some of their stories: https://ow.ly/qf2I50YqvPU
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Happy New Year! 🥳 Thank you to everyone who contributed to, supported, and engaged with our data and research over the past year—we couldn’t do this work without you.
We hope you had a great holiday season and are feeling refreshed and ready to take on the New Year!
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📢 Under today's Full Beaver Supermoon, we welcome the newest chapter of Wetland Atlas of Alberta: 4.5 The Ecological Role of Beavers in Alberta's Wetlands 🦫
Visit The Wetland Atlas of Alberta to read more: https://ow.ly/mNyZ50Xm8bB
#WetlandAtlas #Wetlands #Alberta #ABMIatWork #AlbertaWildlife
Field work with @DukeBiology wrapped up last week! The team travelled around AB to collect cyanolichens, including to some seemingly unusual places--Peltigera can grow under litter in the grasslands. Umbrellas helped the team search despite the glare of the sun.
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We're thrilled to finally be in the field hanging with Alberta’s Peltigera! Researchers from @DukeBiology are studying what shapes the distribution of Alberta’s cyanolichens. They get by with a little help from their friends—ABMI lichenologists and specimens!
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What are your summer plans? Apply to be a field technician with us! Travel to remote parts of Alberta while contributing to biodiversity monitoring in the province. Apply by February 27:📷 Kendal Benesh #nowhiring #jobs #ABMIatWork
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Mark your calendar! On November 3, Krista Williams will take us on a journey into the world of Alberta mosses!📷: Brittney Miller
#FabPhotoFriday #Webinar #SciComm #Bryophytes #Moss #Alberta #Biodiversity #ABMIatWork
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📣We are hiring for 2 exciting positions! Come join the ABMI team!📣
Geospatial Centre Director:Access Coordinator:#job #jobposting #GIS #landsat #albertajob #ABMIatWork
📷 Nick Parayko
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We're honoured to have been selected and funded by @FRIAA_AB to complete a vegetation inventory of the Richardson Range as part of their #Caribou Habitat Recovery Program. Stay tuned for updates on this project!
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From the boreal forest in the north to the grasslands in the south, the ABMI monitors the state of Alberta’s biodiversity.
Read more about our monitoring efforts on our website:Artwork: Amanda Schutz
#ABMIatWork #Biodiversity #Monitoring
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We hope to answer:
Which harvest areas are underperforming?
Which are on a trajectory to full regen?
Which regen areas can be removed from a Human Footprint map?@AppliedGRG @JNHird
Browse it here:#NationalForestWeek #RemoteSensing #Landsat #ABMIatWork
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Great news for all those with a mitey interest in #Alberta #mites!: an updated version of the Almanac of Alberta Acari Part II was just released:#acarology #arthropoda #arachnida #biodiversity #monitoring #ABMIatWork
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Join Lisa this Friday at noon MDT to learn all about Oribatid Mites - microscopic, unsung biodiversity powerhouses:#Webinar #SciComm #Mites #Biodiversity #Alberta #ABMIatWork
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Grizzly bears were also well detected here (143 images vs 630 that we historically had), substantially increasing our sample size for that species as well. Plus, our very first detection of a momma grizzly with two cubs!
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The Focal Areas Program (est. 2018) is designed to monitor areas of #Alberta with a more rapidly changing footprint with higher frequency and at a smaller scale in order to capture these changes more effectively. It's already yielding exciting results!
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Can you guess what species this is?
#CameraTrapTuesday #AlbertaMammals #AlbertaWildlife #cameratrap #gamecameras #trailcamera #tech4wildlife #cameratrapresearch #ABMIatWork #NatureLovers
Recovery of #caribou and #adaptivemanagement requires understanding population-dynamics and their drivers by estimating abundance of caribou and species they interact with. Read about this research from the CMU:#CameraTrapTuesday #tech4wildlife #ABMIatWork
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What @ESRI Landcover classifies as "Flooded Vegetation," in the #PeaceAthabasca Delta between Lake Claire and Lake Athabasca, the ABMI Wetland Inventory breaks down into fen, marsh, and swamp.
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We just came across this incredible sequence of 2 cougars going for a walk and checking out our "wizard stick" in December of 2019 near Nordegg, and had to share!
#cougar #CameraTrapTuesday#AlbertaWildlife #trailcamera #tech4wildlife #cameratrapresearch #ABMIatWork
Do late-summer algal blooms and AHS Public Health Advisories on your favourite Alberta lake get you down? You're not alone.
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📷CTV News Edmonton
Results 3: Smaller animals are detected less consistently than larger ones.
To continue to refine our ability to better capture smaller animals, we’re looking for ways to improve detection, including testing different camera configurations (ie placing them lower).
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Results 2: Mid- to large-sized animals are captured reliably by motion-triggered cameras based on the results of the test. Great news!
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Results 1: 21 day experiment, time-lapse cameras serviced every few days.~410,000 images, 97% were time-lapse series.
To remove images w/o animals, we first used Microsoft’s #Megadetector, which cut down the number of images needing manual tagging by ~90%!
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Why the Zoo? Time-lapse cameras typically drain their batteries or fill up their memory cards within 48 hours, so this test needed to be located somewhere convenient for frequent re-supply visits. ABMI field sites = access by helicopter, argo, etc. ≠ convenient.
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How? Pairing time-lapse and motion-triggered cameras. The time-lapse cameras were set to take a picture every 3 seconds, to (we hoped) provide us with a near-continuous record of the area. We compared these images with the those from the motion-sensor cameras.
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Why test assumptions? A crucial assumption we make is that all animals passing within 5m of a motion-triggered camera are detected. If this assumption is not met, then we'd be underestimating animal abundance. So,we decided it had to be tested!
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Why would the ABMI have set up #remotecameras at the #EdmontonZoo last fall?
Testing assumptions underlying remote camera analysis methods requires many animals mingling about in a way that generates lots of detections in a short time period.
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Why do field validation of geospatial products, you ask?
We are always looking for opportunities to understand where our methods worked well and where they didn't, so we can be continuously improving our products.
Plus it's also fun!
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In the Vermillion Lakes Wetlands next to Banff, she photographed:
A treed swamp - transitioning to upland forest - on the Fenlands Trail, and;
A #marsh overlooking shallow open water from the Marsh Boardwalk near Banff's original thermal springs.
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If you think it's just our field crews that get their boots on the ground, then think again!
Recently, ABMI Geospatial Analyst @fionag111 got to ground-truth some of the #wetland areas she classified for the ABMI Wetland Inventory.
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