{"id":2050,"date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-799\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:45:09","slug":"innovation-anthology-799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/08\/02\/innovation-anthology-799\/","title":{"rendered":"#799: MAPS:  Bird Research in Oil Sands Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 799.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syncrude is part of a consortium of 10 companies supporting research on birds in the oil sands area of northeastern Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Called MAPS, this is an acronym for Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship.<\/p>\n<p>MAPS  is an international program and the oil sands area accounts for 38 of  1000 songbird banding stations across North and South America. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ken Foster is an ecologist with Owl Moon Environmental Inc which has run the program near Fort McMurray since 2011.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>DR  KEN FOSTER:<\/span> &nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Up in the Fort McMurray region we have adopted this  protocol with an intent of using it to evaluate not only populations and  our contribution here to the continental effort, but specifically to  look at how songbirds are colonizing and using reclaimed areas in  comparison to their colonization and use of natural areas. And these  data then feed into the industrial effort to reclaim and improve  reclamation practices. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ken Foster says since 2011 his biologists have banded almost 30,000 birds which represents over 90 species. <br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">SYNCRUDE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-08-02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil sands companies support long term MAPS bird banding program to monitor bird populations and habitat reclamation<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Syncrude)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,59,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-wildlife","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}