{"id":1217,"date":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-491\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:37","slug":"innovation-anthology-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2012\/08\/23\/innovation-anthology-491\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #491:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 491.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Every summer millions of songbirds migrate to the boreal forest to breed the next generation of birds.   <\/p>\n<p> Biologist Ken Foster of Owl Moon Environmental leads a monitoring program to assess whether reclamation by oil sands companies is working for the birds.  <\/p>\n<p><strong> DR KEN FOSTER:<\/strong><em> Based on how we&rsquo;re seeing the birds perform in that habitat, we can say to the sponsoring organizations, you know, this particular component of the habitat is working really, really well and you should be including that in the future reclaimed areas.   And perhaps there&rsquo;s some areas in the habitat that are not, and here are some ideas for improvement.  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p> According to Ken Foster, data collected for  MAPS or the <strong>Monitoring Avian Populations and Survivorship Program, <\/strong>is shared with various research agencies in Canada and the United States.     <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong> DR KEN FOSTER:<\/strong><em>  We&rsquo;re partnered with an organization out of California called the Institute for Bird Populations and they run the North American database and have been doing so for 20 years.   Our data are also transmitted to them and each year we get together with our partners at the IBP.  Ultimately with sufficient data we will be looking at scientific publications and having these data transmitted widely in the scientific literature.  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p> MAPS is an ongoing program sponsored by oil sands companies working in Alberta&rsquo;s boreal forest.    <\/p>\n<p><strong><em> Thanks today to Syncrude<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/> I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/strong> <\/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>\u00a02012-08-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer millions of<strong> songbirds<\/strong> migrate to the boreal forest to breed the next generation of birds.     Biologist <strong>Ken Foster<\/strong> of Owl Moon Environmental leads a monitoring program called MAPS to assess whether<strong> reclamation by oil sands companies<\/strong> is working for the birds.  The information collected feeds into the<strong> Institute for Bird Populations&#8217;<\/strong> database for North America. <em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd.) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,59,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-sciences","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":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}