Repeat photography, historical ecology, and climate change in the western Canadian Cordillera. Presented by Eric Higgs at the "Perth II: Global Change and the World's Mountains" conference in Perth, Scotland in September 2010.
Repeat photography, historical ecology, and climate change in the western Canadian Cordillera [Eric Higgs]
1. Repeat photography, historical
ecology, and climate change in
the western Canadian Cordillera
Eric Higgs, Professor
School of Environmental Studies
University of Victoria, Canada
2. Acknowledgements
Library and Archives Canada
Province of Alberta Ministry of Sustainable Resource
Development
Parks Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Universities of Victoria
University of Alberta
28. Research and management
applications
Interdisciplinary graduate research
Vegetation change (Levesque 2005, Rhemtulla 2001)
Climate change (Roush 2009, Shaw 2009)
Analytic techniques (Gat 2011, Watt 2007)
Fire management (Kubian 2011, Gray 2011)
Cultural studies and history (Smith 2004, 2010)
Research collaborations
Roger Wheate (Univ of Northern BC)
Dan Smith (UVic)
Jeanine Rhemtulla (McGill)
Brian Luckman (Western Ontario)
Ian MacLaren (Alberta)
Chris Stockdale (Alberta)
Agency management priorities
Alberta Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development (fire prescriptions and public awareness)
Parks Canada (public awareness, historic ecosystem classification, vegetation and fire management)
Library and Archives Canada (archival research, collections management, public communications)
35. Securing the legacy
Repeat photography
Interpretation & analysis
New techniques for visualization
Communicating the legacy
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