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The Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop was a great experience for our research team. It was an afternoon marked by great questions and exciting discussion. So much so, we ran out of time to answer several of the great questions posed by the participants! In this post, members of our team have responded to these questions.
Read MoreThe Repeat Photography Team relies on historical photographs to determine which mountains to visit in the field, and compare them with modern photos to analyze how the landscape has changed since surveyors last stood there. But where do those historical photographs come from? Alina Fisher and Sonia Voicescu traveled to Library and Archives Canada to explore and process thousands of historical photographs, and they’ve shared their time travel experience.
Read MoreWhat are viewsheds, and why use them? With the Landscapes in Motion teams now analyzing data and sharing the results, our teams are starting to explore new ways of collaborating and combining datasets. Here we share some insights on the process from a collaborator with the Oblique Photography Team, Mountain Legacy Project researcher James Tricker.
Read MoreThe Landscapes in Motion Oblique Photo Team has the daunting task of scaling mountains to repeat photographs taken up to a century ago by land surveyors. In previous posts we’ve described how these intrepid researchers locate sites, line up their photos, and what it’s like working in the field. With the summer fieldwork over, we now get to learn how they are harnessing technology to analyze landscapes in these repeat photographs and collect data from them.
Read MoreThe Repeat Photography Field Crew has been hard at work scaling mountains to capture repeat photographs of images taken a century ago. They’ve checked in to let us know how things are going so far… and it sounds pretty spectacular.
Read MoreSummer is here, and that means the Landscapes in Motion field crews are hitting the road to begin the data collection process in Alberta’s southern Rockies. Sonia Voicescu and Karson Sudlow will be capturing repeat photographs with Julie Fortin of the Oblique Photography Team and Mountain Legacy Project over the next few months, and they can’t wait to reach that first mountain peak.
Read MoreAs the Oblique Photography team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to find the locations where land surveyors once stood to photograph the landscape. Sometimes it’s a bit more complicated (see our last blog post!), but sometimes there is a nice, friendly marker left behind by surveyors of the past…
Read MoreIf someone gave you a 100-year-old photo of the mountains and asked you to find the exact spot the photographer stood, do you think you could do it? Every summer, members of our Oblique Photography Team and the Mountain Legacy Project prove they are up to the challenge - find out how they do it!
Read MoreDo you ever wonder what it's like to be a member of the team capturing repeat photographs from remote mountain locations? Julie Fortin looks back to the 2017 field season, complete with hover helicopter exits, the joys and trials of field work, and lasting friendships formed with her teammates.
Read MoreThe landscapes of the southern Rockies of Alberta have a long and complex natural and cultural history. Prominent in that history is the role of forest fires. Fire has been, and remains today, a necessary and critical part of the long-term health and sustainability of these landscapes. The goal of this project is to advance our understanding of how, where, and when historical wildfires occur, and the implications of those dynamics.
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