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by Eric Higgs | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorised
Andrew Trant, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. His work was featured in a recent article by Roberta Kwok in Nature on “Historical data hidden in the past.” Andrew was formerly a...
by Eric Higgs | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorised
A new digital platform for the Mountain Legacy Project is born! On July 24, 2017, we launched a website and new logo that carry us forward. Our main aim is to communicate more effectively what the Mountain Legacy Project accomplishes, and to make this news accessible...
by Eric Higgs | Jun 18, 2016 | Posts from the past
The Mountain Legacy Project is back in the field for 2016. We are working on a variety of priority repeat photographs along the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies. The core field team comprises Rick Arthur, our liaison with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, and Sandra Frey...
by nclgoodman | Sep 3, 2014 | Posts from the past
Well, we’re back in Victoria–a thousand kilometres and a serious road trip away. The team has spent all day, every day of this past week in the MLP lab entering the hard drives upon hard drives of data we’ve collected (100 stations in all!) into our...
by nclgoodman | Aug 31, 2014 | Posts from the past
Nested within this exceptional field season has been the completion of my master’s thesis fieldwork, currently titled 130 years of change: an analysis of vegetation patterns and fluvial geomorphology of the Bow and Elbow watersheds. It was the compelling accounts of...
by nclgoodman | Aug 19, 2014 | Posts from the past
It’s hard to believe that it’s mid-August already! We wrapped up in Shunda, spent a few days back at the Elbow camp near Bragg Creek, and are now staying in an old ranger cabin at Kananaskis Boundary. Our last week in Shunda included stations in the White Goat...
by vladimiralackova | Aug 11, 2014 | Posts from the past
After a beautiful week in Willmore and our last picturesque flight there over glaciers (with Mt. Robson looming in the background) we were ready to move once again. This time we headed to our third location of this summer–Shunda Fire Base in Clearwater area,...
by nclgoodman | Jul 30, 2014 | Posts from the past
What a great week! Tomorrow we are leaving the Entrance fire camp, where we arrived one week ago to begin working on repeating our Miller 1928 survey in the amazing Willmore Wilderness Park. The week got off to a fun start with a road trip fro the Elbow Camp to...
by Kristen Walsh | Jul 22, 2014 | Posts from the past
Although we have been busy bees since our arrival in the picturesque Kananaskis Country, forest fires from nearly all directions (BC to the West, Grand Cache and the NWT to the North and Oregon and Montana to the South) produced a thick haze in the air, temporarily...
by taggarthodge | Jul 16, 2014 | Posts from the past
Sitting in a sparkling blue Bell-407, earmuffs over our heads, microphones at our mouths, hands wrapped tightly around our printed photographs, maps and GPS, peering down at the mountain peeks below – it is hard to believe this constitutes our daily work! Even though...
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