Innovation Anthology #756:
Biologists with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute conduct field operations almost year round.
Nina Veselka is the Terrestrial Field Coordinator with the ABMI’s Monitoring Centre.
NINA VESELKA: Spring protocols involve soil collection, collecting moss and lichen, assessing trees, Our summer protocols look at plant identification. We do habitat assessments. From a wetland standpoint, their protocols are only in the summertime. In the springtime, those technicians are helping the terrestrial field crews with our spring protocols. And they look at depth measurements. They collect acquatic invertebrate samples and so on.
Over the last few years the biologists have made rare finds, including a lichen thought to be extinct and some new species of flora and fauna.
NINA VESELKA: In 2013 we discovered six new species of mites, one of which is called “Oribatella abmi” . So that;s what comes with being out there throughout the whole province collecting data at some locations that most people don’t get to go to.
Thanks today to the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.
You can listen the full interview with Nina Veselka and her colleague Greg Brooke at InnovationAnthology.com
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Program Date: 2016-02-09