Innovation Anthology #753:
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute is the largest and most comprehensive effort of its kind in the world.
The ABMI has established a grid of data collection points every 20 kilometers across the province.
Nina Veselka is Terrestrial Field Coordinator with the ABMI’s Monitoring Centre.
NINA VESELKA: We are responsible for collecting data at 1656 sites spaced throughout the province. We’re responsible for training summer technicians to collect high quality data that is repeatable year to year.
Each year, a team of biologists work to gather more baseline information about the state of Alberta’s biodiversity.
Nina speaks to the importance of the effort.
NINA VESELKA: Well, Alberta is a very dynamic landscape and we can’t stop the development throughout the province. So the Monitoring Centre is out there collecting very relevant and very scientifically sound baseline data that will hopefully lead to better decisions as the land throughout Alberta is developed.
As the winter field season starts, Nina Velselka and her colleagues at the ABMI’s monitoring Centre will post hundreds of wildlife cameras and recorders across the province.
Thanks today to The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.
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I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2016-01-28