{"id":2013,"date":"2016-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-779\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:02:59","slug":"innovation-anthology-779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/05\/05\/innovation-anthology-779\/","title":{"rendered":"#779: Pollination: Bee Diversity and Abundance Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 779.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bees are the perfect example of an organism that provides an essential ecosystem service.<\/p>\n<p>At least one third of all our food is&nbsp; dependent on pollination by insects.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jessamyn Manson studies bees at the University of Alberta. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of her current projects are supported by Alberta Innovates and&nbsp; the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And for the past two years, she&#8217;s been&nbsp; researching the diversity and abundance of wild bees in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&nbsp;DR  JESSAMYN MANSON: <\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This has never been done before and so it&#8217;s our  first step at understanding how many bees we have and how their  communities are structured And it&#8217;s going to help us understand how many  ecosystems services are available across the province and also where  our ecosystem services are potentially at risk. &nbsp; Our work with ABMI is  actually done in canola fields. &nbsp;And we have a partner project that&#8217;s  happening in sites close by in rangeland. &nbsp; So we&#8217;re working in two  paired, agro-ecosystems. &nbsp;Highly managed ecosystems like canola fields,  and less managed ecosystems like rangelands which provide a lot of  wildflowers as well as habitat for the bees. &nbsp;<br \/><\/span><br \/>Dr. Jessamyn Manson says her graduate&nbsp; students have already collected over 18 thousand pollinators for identification<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alberta Innovates<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-05-05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jessamyn Manson undertakes population study of wild bees in Alberta to establish baseline for determining the economic value of bees and pollination <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Alberta Innovates)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,9,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-environment","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\/16Jessamyn_Manson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}