{"id":1942,"date":"2016-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-756\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:12","slug":"innovation-anthology-756","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/02\/09\/innovation-anthology-756\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #756:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 756.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biologists with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute conduct field operations almost year round. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nina Veselka is the Terrestrial Field Coordinator with the ABMI&#8217;s Monitoring Centre. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NINA VESELKA:<\/span>&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Spring  protocols involve soil collection, collecting moss and lichen,  assessing trees, &nbsp;Our summer protocols look at plant identification. &nbsp; We  do habitat assessments.&nbsp;&nbsp; From a wetland standpoint, their  protocols are only in the summertime. &nbsp;In the springtime, those  technicians are helping the terrestrial field crews with our spring  protocols. &nbsp;And they look at depth measurements. &nbsp;They collect acquatic  invertebrate samples and so on. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>NINA VESELKA<\/span>:<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> In  2013 we discovered six new species of mites, one of which is called  &ldquo;Oribatella abmi&rdquo; . &nbsp;So that;s what comes with being out there  throughout the whole province collecting data at some locations that  most people don&#8217;t get to go to.<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>Thanks today to the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/p>\n<p>You can listen the full interview with Nina Veselka and her colleague Greg Brooke at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">InnovationAnthology.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmi.ca\">Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/LOGO ABMI small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-02-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrestrial Field Coordinator Nina Veselka outlines the different things like plants, animals, soil and water that are collected by the ABMI&#8217;s Monitoring Centre <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-biodiversity-monitoring-institute","category-forests","category-wildlife","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16abmi_NinaVeselka_sm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}