What is it like to monitor a wetland in southern Alberta? What do wetland monitoring crews actually do? What do the different protocols look like in action? In an attempt to answer these and other burning questions, our Information Coordinator, Jill Smith and our Communications Coordinator, Sonya Poller visited Ciara Sharpe and Emily Jansen, one [...]
Our summer field staff have arrived and completed their first two shifts. Both safety training and the establishment shift are over and we are heading into Spring Protocol Training. Both SOP and establishment went well with northern crews establishing terrestrial sites and southern crews completing wetland verification. Crews had a chance to get their feet [...]
We are currently making our last-minute preparations for the 2012 field season! This year we have two field bases, one in Brooks and the other at Meanook Biological Research Station (MBRS) near Athabasca. Our new staff starts on April 30th at MBRS and May 1st in Brooks. This year we have a total of 46 [...]