Looking back at the 2018 LIM Field Tour
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On Wednesday, September 12, Landscapes in Motion hosted its first-ever field tour. Read on to learn more about what we talked about, saw, and heard over the day.
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Landscapes in Motion goes to the Ecological Society of America meeting in New Orleans!
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An important part of a researcher’s job is to learn more about what other scientists are doing in different institutions, fields, and ecosystems, and stay up-to-date on what they’re discovering. This pursuit of connections and knowledge-sharing took Ceres Barros to New Orleans for the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting - find out what she presented and learned while she was there!
Read MoreField Notes: Stepping off the beaten path with the Oblique Photography Team
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The 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 MoreMeet the Fire Regime Field Crew!
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Meet the four intrepid field crew members who will be hiking all over Alberta’s southern Rockies, collecting tree-ring, fire scar, and vegetation structure data under Cameron Naficy’s supervision.
Read MoreMeet the Oblique Photography Field Crew!
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Summer 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 MoreWhat’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?
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As 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 MoreRepeat Photography in the Field - How does the Oblique Photography team get those photos lined up?
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If 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 MoreWhy study historical fire regimes and how do we do it?
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Here at Landscapes in Motion, we talk a lot about “looking to the past” to understand how fire regimes have shaped the landscapes of the southern Rockies in Alberta. Cameron Naficy explains how the Fire Regime team collects and interprets historical clues in order to reconstruct the fire regimes of the past - and why it’s important they do so.
Read MoreA Wildfire Story: Soil
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Have you ever walked through a recently burned forest? As your blackened boots would attest, the trees are not the only part of the forest that burned. What happens to forest soils during a wildfire, and how does the severity of the fire affect these changes?
Read MoreModels: What are they and why do we need them?
/Landscapes in Motion is a collaboration between three different teams, each working to understand the landscape of southwestern Alberta through a different lens. Ceres Barros of the Modelling Team sets the stage for the team’s work by explaining what modelling is all about.
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