Collecting and sharing data is at the heart of what we do. That's why we're pleased to announce that it's even easier to share data on WildTrax with NatureCounts, the open data platform from Birds Canada, one of the world's largest biodiversity data repositories. Currently, 141 datasets and over 1,000,000 records have been shared from WildTrax to NatureCounts using this new function! Read more on the our blog: https://lnkd.in/gqFSapPW #FabPhotoFriday
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Environmental Services
Edmonton, Alberta 6,770 followers
It's Our Nature to Know
About us
The ABMI is a leader in biodiversity monitoring. We work collaboratively to provide ongoing, relevant and scientifically credible information on Alberta's living resources. We are an organization filled with bright minds, diverse expertise, and valued partners and collaborators. Our Vision: The ABMI advances biodiversity monitoring to inform responsible resource management and land stewardship, now and for future generations. Our Mission: We track changes in wildlife and their habitats across Alberta, working collaboratively to provide ongoing, relevant, and scientifically credible information about our living resources. OUR HISTORY A Comprehensive Monitoring System The ABMI as we know it officially began operations in 2007. A small team was motivated to answer a pressing question: how can we evaluate the combined effects of human activities on Alberta’s natural environments? Alberta was a province in transition, with a growing population and demand for natural resources, that needed a comprehensive system effective across multiple scales to monitor changes in Alberta’s ecosystems. While we formally incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2007, the idea behind the ABMI was born long before. The program emerged from a decade of planning and testing. We developed protocols to monitor seven taxonomic groups determined by our scientific advisors to be useful indicators of ecosystem health as well as protocols aimed at monitoring habitats. Through these pilot years, we refined the protocols by focusing on key questions like, “can this be implemented in a standardized and cost-effective way across the whole province?” and “does it produce the data needed to evaluate cumulative effects?”
- Website
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http://abmi.ca/home.html
External link for Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- GIS, Remote Sensing, Taxonomy, Field Protocols, Field Work, Autonomous Recording Units, Remote Cameras, Statistical Analysis, Science Communications, Scientific Analysis, Innovation, collaboration, Knowledge Translation, Stakeholder Engagement, Science Innovation, Species Monitoring, Land Cover Monitoring, Lidar Imaging, Oil Sands Monitoring, Community Based Monitoring and Engagement, Open Data, Publications, and Online Reporting
Locations
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CW 405 Biological Sciences Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G2E9, CA
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Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
Bag 4000
Vegreville, Alberta T9C1T4, CA
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Calgary, Alberta, CA
Employees at Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Updates
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We’re #hiring a new Indigenous Engagement Specialist in Alberta, Canada. Apply today or share this post with your network!
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Join our team as Indigenous Engagement Specialist: https://lnkd.in/gNS9FhhC If you have expertise related to the collaborative planning and implementation of Indigenous engagement programs across a breadth of topics, we'd love for you to apply. This job offers: - A #flexible work arrangement allowing #remotework, and the opportunity for office space in either Edmonton or Calgary, Alberta; A comprehensive #benefits package through the University of Alberta; - The opportunity to work #independently with little supervision; - A great team of people directly within your team, and across the entire organization; - A chance to meaningfully contribute to biodiversity monitoring in Alberta as part of a growing, fast-paced organization working at the cutting edge of monitoring biodiversity and their habitats. We welcome applicants from across Alberta to apply by October 31 at the University of Alberta's careers page: https://lnkd.in/gs5tN3ge #ABMIatWork #NowHiring #AlbertaJobs #EnvironmentalScience #biodiversity #IndigenousEngagement
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The Human Footprint Inventory being used to monitor industrial impacts to archaeologically significant sites in Alberta? We were excited to hear how William T. D. Wadsworth, part of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, had put our data to work in his PhD and a recently published paper, "Using GIS and remote sensing to monitor industrial impacts to archaeological sites in the Athabasca Oil Sands of Alberta." Here's a snapshot: "Until recently, there has been little quantitative evidence to assess human impact on archaeological resources in the region. The goal of this paper is to raise awareness of the critical need to incorporate new archaeological remote sensing strategies to improve site monitoring approaches... We argue that combining publicly accessible remote sensing products with geospatial archaeological site information allows for better documenting and monitoring of industry impacts in the AOS." - William Wadsworth, et al. Check out his paper here for more info: https://ow.ly/Imeh50TByr1 Anyone can freely access and download any of the ABMI's data, including the recently updated Enhanced Human Footprint data from 2021 on our website: https://ow.ly/Q7Ut50TByr3 #HumanFootprint #Archaeology #archaeologicalresources #Alberta The data in the Human Footprint Inventory is collected and created by the Alberta Human Footprint Monitoring Program and the ABMI, with support from the Oil Sands Monitoring Program.
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#DYK the ABMI reports on human footprint from border-to-border across the province in partnership with the Government of Alberta? We are excited to have our own Scott Vegter, ABMI Human Footprint Lead, presenting all about this innovative geospatial product at Canada's National Geomatics Expo 2024 in October: https://ow.ly/qvU650TBxG2 We define human footprint as the visible alteration or conversion of native ecosystems to temporary or permanent residential, recreational, agricultural or industrial landscapes. At the provincial scale, we consider 20 different categories of human footprint (in turn made up of 117 specific types, such as such as dugout, pipeline or trail) one by one and all at once to report on the status of human footprint in Alberta. Here is a look at some of these different human footprint sublayers as mapped in 2019. All of the ABMI's data, including human footprint data, is freely and publicly available to anyone on our Data and Analytics Portal: https://ow.ly/9fil50TBxG1 Or you can visualize the story this data tells in our Status of Human Footprint in Alberta online report: https://ow.ly/6sF150TBxG0 #humanfootprint #landuse #satelliteimagery #satellitedata #GIS #collaboration #environmentalmonitoirng #ABMIatWork #Alberta GoGeomatics Jennifer Hird Mir Mustafizur Rahman Jiaao Guo Jesse Viehweger The data in the Human Footprint Inventory is collected and created by the Alberta Human Footprint Monitoring Program and the ABMI, with support from the Oil Sands Monitoring Program.
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Sometimes we get lucky and capture really neat photos of the #species we monitor in #Alberta. Here we got some extreme close-ups of two bull #moose sparring in late 2023. #CameraTrapTuesday #Tech4Wildlife #ABMIatWork #AlbertaWildlife
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We are excited to share that our Executive Director, Jim Herbers, and Geospatial Centre Director, Cynthia N. McClain, PhD, will be attending the #COP16 gathering in #Colombia! We look forward to engaging with representatives from, and learning about, other regional, national, and global biodiversity programs. #NatureNow #UnitedNations #NacionesUnidas #COP16Colombia #AlbertaWildlife #AlbertaPlants #EnvironmentalMonitoring #remotesensing #satellites #geospatial #ItsOurNaturetoKnow #ABMIatWork #Biodiversity #environmentalscience #ecology #Canada
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The soil beneath your feet is home to thousands of tiny animals known as soil mites. Even when full grown, the largest of soil mites are smaller than the head of a pin, making them almost invisible to the naked eye. Though small in size and rarely noticed, mites play interesting and important roles in soil health. Here is a brief story of mites being processed by our Processing Centre staff in photos. 📸Victoria Dennis, Tyler Cobb, D Walter #FabPhotoFriday
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New blog: "Innovative Mapping of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems": https://ow.ly/iYwc50TBBkM Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are ecosystems that are maintained by direct or indirect access to groundwater, and rely on the flow or chemical characteristics of groundwater for some or all of their water requirements. They are highly complex systems and come in all different shapes and sizes, making it challenging to accurately identify and map where they exist on the landscape. Globally, the mapping of GDEs has been identified as increasingly urgent to ensure ecosystem and human health protection. Last year, a group of scientists from the ABMI and InnoTech Alberta began a unique multi-year project to map the locations of GDEs in the boreal forests of Alberta, Canada. Through the use of data from multiple sources and innovative mapping techniques (a machine-learning geospatial approach), the project will fill a critical knowledge gap by creating a map product that can be used to identify the best areas to monitor biological systems impacted by changes to groundwater (e.g., quality, levels) due to energy sector activities. Check out our latest blog to learn more about this innovative project! InnoTech Alberta, Michael Wendlandt, Emily Herdman, Cynthia N. McClain, PhD #Groundwater #GDE #GroundwaterDependentEcosystem #humanhealth #water #waterquality #ecosystems #riparianareas #fens #remotesensing #gis #geospatialmonitoring #machinelearning #ABMIatWork #wetlands #lakes #rivers #streams #springs #aquifers #karst #caves #Alberta #Canada Figure: Groundwater conceptual models for energy sector activities in northeastern Alberta: (a) in-situ, (b) surface mining. Source: Groundwater Vulnerability in the Athabasca and Cold Lake Oil Sands Regions: Gaps, Opportunities and Challenges, Birks et al. (in press) Environmental Reviews 📸s: J Dooley, J Dennett
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute reposted this
Meet the Biodiversity Pathways Board! We held our Annual General Meeting (or AGM) two weeks ago in beautiful British Columbia. Our Board of Directors took part in a field tour on the outskirts of Kelowna, where they discussed monitoring techniques and programs with staff from Biodiversity Pathways. Learn more about who we are on our website: https://lnkd.in/gFCPG78s