Tagged: Environmental Studies
Capturing Landscape Change Through Repeat Photography
With more than 7,000 image pairs from 19 summers of fieldwork, the Mountain Legacy Project reveals significant landscape changes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Based at the University of Victoria, the project team works...
Ecological Disturbances May Cause Willow Shrub Expansion
Following recent reports of canopy cover increases in Alaska, northern Quebec, and in northern Russia, Myers-Smith et al. studied willow expansion on Herschel Island, a land mass of about 100 km2 reaching an elevation...
Addressing British Columbia’s Biggest Water Challenges in a Changing Climate
A report by Rosie Simms and Oliver M. Brandes discusses “climate change and shifting hydrological conditions” placing British Columbia (BC) “into an increasingly uncertain water future.” (1) They have identified five water challenges in the...
Improving Assessment and Management of Cumulative Environmental Effects
As visibility of the environmental effects of human activity increases so does the desire to understand their potential impact. Cumulative Effects Assessments (CEAs), “the process of systematically assessing impacts resulting from incremental, accumulating, and...
Alpine Habitats are Unique and Under Threat
Habitats in the alpine zone are those habitats that exist at high elevations. They have “rugged, partially vegetated terrain with snowfields and rocky ridges, above the natural tree line,” (1). There is often less...
New Technologies use Historical Photographs to Offer a Glimpse into the Past
Advances in aerial photography and satellite imagery have allowed us to view our world from above, and measure patterns on the ground in unprecedented detail. However, these modern methods often fall short when it...
Views on Urban Bears in Northern British Columbia are Mostly Positive or Indifferent
For residents of many mountain communities, a chance meeting with a coyote – or a bear – is nothing out of the ordinary. Increasing human development has reduced the amount of natural habitat available...
