Innovation Anthology #437:
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute is a unique and ambitious program.
Information on habitat, flora and fauna is collected from hundreds of sites 20 kilometers apart all across the province.
Dr. Jim Schieck is an ecologist with Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and scientific director of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.
Dr. Schieck says his group is discovering there are many uses for the data collected.
DR JIM SCHIECK: But we also found we could do a lot more with the data. The information that we collected is the same kinds of information in fact, its broader than what is collected by any researcher that’s doing a particular research project. We collect information on many, many different taxa, a whole diversity of habitats, and lots and lots of landscape information. But we said we can do more. So we can do things like help folks assess cumulative effects in a region or help folks assess things like recovery in areas that have been developed and then reclaimed. Helping folks manage conservation offsets.
Data and reports are available to the public online at www.ABMI.ca
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Program Date: 2011-11-29