ALBERTA BIOLOGISTS' BIWEEKLY

OCTOBER 1, 2024

SEMINARS, WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

OCTOBER

Healing the Land Conference

October 7 - October 10

Join Indigenous leaders, federal, provincial, and local governments, restoration practitioners, and industry representatives to dive into the conference themes of innovation, collaboration, preparing for the future, and healing the land together. The Healing the Land Conference, hosted at Moberly Lake by Saulteau First Nations, will explore successful partnerships, collaborative restoration and protection efforts, and emerging technologies that honor Indigenous knowledge systems shaping the future of restoration.

TRAINING PROVIDERS

GRASSLAND

RESTORATION FORUM

Industry Tour - Grassland Restoration SOLD OUT

This field tour on October 3, 2024 looks at multiple use landscapes in the dry mixed- grass of SE Alberta, based from Manyberries, Alberta and designed for industry professionals and practitioners, looking at a variety of reclamation challenges and practices, including wellsites and cropland conversion.

The GRF Perennial Gathering!

This year, the GRF Fall Information Session at Claresholm, Alberta, takes place on November 14. The one-day fall information session gathers a variety of industry and grassland stakeholders to exchange current information on grassland restoration and conservation through a variety of presentations and mini updates. The theme this year is CASE STUDIES.

Check out our website for more details, and to register for all events: https://grasslandrestorationforum.ca.

NATURAL RESOURCES

TRAINING GROUP

Winning Proposals — Writing to Secure Funding – Online – October 8th, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Plant Identification Level 2 – Online – October 10th & October 17th, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Electrofishing Certification – Online (self-paced) & Central Vancouver Island, October 17, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Cultural Heritage Assessment and Monitoring – Online, October 21-23 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Species at Risk – Online, October 22-23, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Introduction to Fish Habitat Measurement and Assessment – Online – October 23rd, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Land Guardian Program – Online – October 28th – November 29th 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Working in and About Water – Online – October 29th – 30th, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

Interpreting Fish Habitat Assessment Information – Online – October 29th, 2024 Natural Resources Training Group (nrtraininggroup.com)

For the full calendar of upcoming courses, and course details, follow this link:

https://nrtraininggroup.com/schedule/

COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE

of Applied Ecology

Revelstoke BC

Full course information available at each course link.

Data Manipulation and Visualization in R

October 1-4, 2024. Online

Introduction to `R` software

October 15-18, 2024. Online

QGIS Level I & II – Online

Dates scheduled according to student schedules.

ESTI

The Environmental Sciences Training Institute

The Environmental Sciences Training Institute is excited to host backpack electrofishing certification training in Alberta and British Columbia this September. This one-and-a-half day course serves to certify participants in backpack electrofishing safety, fish handling methods, equipment, and fundamentals of electrical theory.

Please contact efishing@esticanada.com with any questions or to book a custom delivery. Learn about our Efishing program here. 

View our in-person course calendar at

https://esticanada.com/shop/

Nest Sweep Protocol: Online – Self-Paced

Online Courses

SALMTEC

 COURSES AND TRAINING PROGRAMS

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NEW! Preliminary Wetland Delineation On Demand Seminar

SALMTEC is pleased to announce that they have a new offering: Preliminary Wetland Delineation On Demand Seminar.

SALMTEC Blended Course: Grassland Vegetation Inventory (GVI): A User’s Guide

Online Content + Live Streaming Class

Fall 2024 Registration Now Open!

SALMTEC Blended Course: ABWRET-A Blended Course

Online Content + Live Streaming Class, Fall 2024 Registration Now Open!

SALMTEC On Demand Hydrology & Wetland Design seminar. For more information please go here: https://salmtec.com/product/wetland-design-hydrology/

SALMTEC Offers several shorter online courses:

Wetland Policy Basics – Online Course

Understanding ACIMS Tools – Online Course

Alberta Soil Information Viewer – Online Course

Land Use Analysis OnDemand Seminar

Technical Report Review OnDemand Seminar

Landscape Analysis OnDemand Seminar

VISIT THE SALMTEC CONNECTOR 

THE SALMTEC CONNECTOR is a compilation of applied science and land management event listings, across a variety of sectors and disciplines, published monthly.

You can find the SALMTEC CONNECTOR HERE.

We regularly receive notifications from Google Scholar Alerts and other sources which we select and share below in the BIWEEKLY. Here is the latest batch (the links are HOT):

Mosquito-borne disease cases rising

AI models for the foundations of biology

“I tried my best to remove my human perspective from the story and see the world through the eyes of an urban Canada goose.”

Impact of tree species composition on fire resistance in temperate forest stands

Avian community responses to energy development and woody encroachment

Balancing forest area preservation and biodiversity offsets in the forest: Forest owners' policy preferences

Emerging hazardous chemicals and biological pollutants in Canadian aquatic systems and remediation approaches: A comprehensive status report

Alberta lamb producers sheep/goat vegetation management accreditation course

A geospatial approach to identifying and mapping areas of relative environmental pressure on ecosystem integrity

Learning from the Lowly Lichen about Being a Better Human

Human echinococcosis incidence in Canada, 2000–2020

Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

Avoiding Microplastics is a Luxury

Myiasis by the Toad Fly (Lucilia bufonivora; Calliphoidae) in Amphibians in Montana, USA

Indigenous Veganism

Supplemental Data Description S1

A Review of Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar for Invasive Alien Plant Research

A probabilistic hazard assessment for cyanobacterial toxins accounting for regional geography and water body trophic status

Big Game Guidelines for Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Solar Development

Empowering Climate Change Resilience Through Forests and Agroforestry

Forest Ecosystems: Insights, Adaptations, and Mitigation Strategies to Climate Change

The impact of urbanization on wildlife

A review of the enacted, proposed, and potential limitations on renewable energy development in Alberta

Basal autotrophic and heterotrophic food web responses to municipal wastewater effluent exposure in the Bow River, Alberta and experimental streams at Advancing …

Quantifying the effectiveness of three aquatic invasive species prevention methods

Automated Linear Disturbance Mapping via Semantic Segmentation of Sentinel-2 Imagery

Burrowing Owls Require Mutualist Species and Ample Interior Habitat Space

Landscape genetic analysis of population structure and factors influencing gene flow in a southern peripheral population of boreal woodland caribou

ScientificBeekeeping. com

Field-validated species distribution model of Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis) in Northwestern Ontario

We need more botanists and zoologists

Factors influencing the diversity and abundance of grassland birds in the Waterton Foothills Parkland, Alberta, Canada

An ecological perspective on the temporal variation in Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) drumming behavior in Alberta, Canada

Native seed mix richness impacts revegetation of reclaimed land

FWGNA> Freshwater Gastropods of The Great Plains> Discussion

A review of the wetland's restoration mechanisms and its economic and social benefits

Remote sensing for monitoring mine lands and recovery efforts

Leggy fish can taste with its gams

Food supplementing peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) nests increase reproductive success with no change in mean parental provisioning rate

Effects of oil sands disturbances on tree structure and composition along Alberta's boreal forest edges

A New Threat to Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) Restoration in Alberta and Beyond: First Documentation of a Cronartium ribicola race (vcr4) Virulent to Cr4-Controlled …

Evidence-based approaches to managing Canadian oil sands tailing pond waste: tighter regulations and greater transparency are needed

Molecular detection and distribution of Fascioloides magna and its snail host in Elk Island National Park

Habitat and community ecology of Canada lynx across intensively managed forest landscapes

Multiscale investigations into the thermal habitat use and conservation of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in the Parsnip River watershed, Canada

A Review of Acoustic Techniques for Noise Monitoring of BC Wildlife Crossing Structures

Re-centering relations: The trouble with quick fix approaches to beaver-based restoration

2024 CONFERENCE SPONSORS

This week’s banner photo:

Assessing ground cover at the Redberry Lake Biosphere.

Photo courtesy of ASPB

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