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Citizen Science on Top
In honour of the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) and the Alpine Club of Canada are collaborating on an exciting citizen science repeat photography project in some of Canada’s high places.
10 Questions with Claire Wright
Welcome back to another episode of "10 Questions." From post-doctoral fellows to research assistants, each person has been asked to share their unique perspectives, experiences and stories by responding to the same 10 questions. This month we are featuring PhD...
“A Tale of Two Disturbances…” A New Article by James Tricker
March 10th, 2025 MLP researcher James Tricker recently published an article in Regional Environmental Change titled "A tale of two disturbances: Can mountain pine beetle restore landcover composition and pattern altered by fire suppression in Jasper National Park?"...
Blisters, Boulders, and Breathtaking Views: Darcy’s First Field Season
By Darcy Benham, January 30th, 2025 In the summer of 2024, I had the opportunity to join the Mountain Legacy Project as a research assistant for PhD candidate Claire Wright. I was aware of the project since I had been in several of Eric Higgs’ classes, but little did...
Borealis
Katelyn Fryer, December 11th, 2024 This year for International Mountain Day we decided to blog something a little different! Let me introduce the MLP’s new data repository, Borealis. ***** The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) has a foundation deeply rooted in history. We...
Mountain Image Analysis Suite (MIAS): A new plugin for converting oblique images to landcover maps in QGIS
The MLP's Claire Wright has been hard at work over the summer, not only with field work, but also with the publication of this most recent paper, and the development of the The Mountain Image Analysis Suite (MIAS) http://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13229 MIAS is a unique,...
Thinking of you, Jasper
By Eric Higgs, August 8th, 2024 Thinking of You, Jasper. ***** The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) was born in Jasper. Starting in 1996 with the uncovering of a set of 1915 survey images of the area, we began to realize the power of historical and repeat photographs for...
A Farewell to Fieldwork
By James Tricker, July 12th, 2024 With MLP fieldwork underway in the mountains this summer, one long-time crew member is (very reluctantly) sitting this season out to instead focus on writing up his dissertation (one last mountain, James). Here, he...
PART 2 – Trying to see the Forest for the Trees: Testing Machine Learning Models on Mountain Legacy Project Images
In part 1 of this series, I discussed the motivation for using machine learning to classify land cover types in Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) images and described convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the technology we use to implement automated classification. This follow-up article tackles some challenges in applying this technology to MLP images and what specific implementations of CNNs we are testing to work toward an optimal solution.
PART 1 – Patterns, Pixels, and Programming: Applying Deep Learning to Mountain Legacy Project Images
Ben Wright, March 21st 2024 This is the first of a two-part series describing the work Aniket Mahindrakar and I have been conducting as research assistants for the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP). For several years now the MLP has been utilizing machine-learning to...