Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada "Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...

We are hiring! Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Any enquiries, please DM me! #academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

Very happy to report the first glimpse at the new identity for our research group—EcoVisualization Studio—which combines @mountainlegacy.bsky.social with CEDAR (Co-Lab for Ecological Design And Restoration). More soon!

My dream: The internet fills with AI kudzu and milfoil. Social media is choked out by machines babbling to each other. Humans will be forced back into analog spaces - especially radio and print - to share information, music and ideas. Serious newsrooms will build audience with a promise: Zero AI.

Very happy to announce the book, Mountain Voices, will be published in early November by @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Fifty authors explore their love of Canadian mountains through interpreting photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Order early!

Jeanine Rhemtulla and I are presenting “The Mountain Legacy Project as a Platform for Understanding Fire the Canada Wildfire webinar series at 08:30 Friday Sept 12. Free to register. Please join us. www.canadawildfire.org/webinarsandc... @mountainlegacy.bsky.social

Very pleased work with Drs. Jeanine Rhemtulla and Lori Daniels and students on the 2024 Jasper wildfires to be featured in the New York Times today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

Wrapped up a very successful field season with @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. We repeat high resolution oblique photographs in some case for the fourth time creating a sequence from 1915 to the present including before and after photos of the 2024 Jasper Wildfire Complex.

I had the pleasure of working with 16 fine students in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca and in our Restoration of Natural Systems Program. They delivered insights for the community on six research projects that key into priorities of the galianoconservancy.org

Heading to the Millard Learning Centre on Galiano Island to teach my annual “advanced principles and practices in ecological restoration” course. Ten days of good work with 16 @uvic.ca students culminating in presentations to the Galiano community! galianoconservancy.ca/event/uvic-s...

After some technical hiccups over the last few months the @mountainlegacy.bsky.social Stories series is back! Please check out the latest post by Alia Johnson on connecting work with repeat photography to ecological design. mountainlegacy.ca/2025/06/30/o... Pls subscribe! mountainlegacy.ca/news/

Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca

Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

This paper is exactly what we need!! Congratulations team!

Very proud of newly-minted PhD, Dr. James Tricker. His dissertation helped develop new tools for classifying, analyzing, and geo-referencing oblique images. His work focused on a critical look at historical range of variability in light of emergent ecological novelty in Jasper National Park.

🚨Just learned that the next book in our @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgary.bsky.social, edited by @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, will drop in November 🚨 Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project… #envhist @ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social

Very proud of PhD student, Alia Johnson, who was awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This makes a perfect streak for the five Canadian PhD students working with me now (int’l students not eligible for this award).

Another instalment of our “10 Questions” blog series @mountainlegacy.bsky.social This one features PhD student, Claire Wright. Check out the photo looking down the gully of Chak Peak in Jasper National Park! mountainlegacy.ca/2025/05/05/1...

How do we move forward with the novel ecosystem concept? Some deep and exciting conversations happening at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social #NovelEcosystems

I am delighted to be hosting my first global symposium. Three days of discussions on the future of the novel ecosystem concept and novel ecosystems of the future. Exciting publications to follow! Part of the @noveleco.bsky.social project #novelecosystems #TrinityResearch #ERCResearch

Thanks Matt Ponford for BBC article focusing on Hawai’i and profoundly changed ecosystems. Shout out to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @lauralgovers.bsky.social and others mentioned in the article. BTW, “freakosystem” was coined by my young daughter circa 2011. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Our article on “bionovelty,” examines intersecting drivers of technological change for restoration (and conservation). It is difficult to gauge the implications of any single technology let alone an ensemble. This article searches for pattern. doi.org/10.1111/rec....

A new #UrbanBees paper in "Ecological Applications"!🐝

@mountainlegacy.bsky.social is pleased to contribute to the Canadian celebration of International Year of the Glacier www.unglacieryear.ca

On #WorldGlacierDay, our paper in @science.org about the Sikkim glacial lake disaster has been published in its final form: 🧪⚒️❄️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Was delighted to present my thoughts on restoration in a rapidly changing world to the Victoria-based Native Plant Study Group last evening at Swan Lake Nature Centre. Also intimidated to have plant luminaries in attendance including Hans Roemer and Oluna and Adam Ceska. npsg.ca

Aniket Mahindrakar successfully defended his @uvic.ca Computer Science/Environmental Studies MSc thesis: “MountainScape Semantic Segmentation of Historical and Repeat Images.” He compared performance of several AI models. Further unlocks @mountainlegacy.bsky.social research potential.

“If the battle over universities were only about budgets, the fight might be different. But what is being targeted is something more profound: the ability of institutions to sustain the freedoms that form the foundation of our democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

These changes are so needed! Harmonizing across disciplines (no longer diff $ amounts for social vs natural science!), higher amounts, no more 3-tiered PhD awards, and opening up awards to international students. All great changes. Grateful to everyone who has been advocating for this for years

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤

The #biosphere is changing: Check our global mapping of ecological novelty in wild #ecosystems (due to #climatechange, #defaunation & floristic disruption) - just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social ♨️🐘🌿🌐 Big thx to @mattkerr.bsky.social for the huge effort! #novelecosystems #invasivespecies #megafauna

Using historical and repeat photography, MLP researcher James Tricker explores how an unprecedented mountain pine beetle outbreak is changing ecosystem composition and configuration in Jasper National Park following a century of fire suppression. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A project by Nature Creative Commons on Forest Carbon. Check out their short video on the role of Old Forests as “climate heroes.” Lovely to see science, forestry, and art come together. naturecreativecommons.org/forestcarbon/

A nice blog from Darcy Bonham about her adventurous field experiences with the Mountain Legacy Project. Darcy just finished her undergraduate degree at UVic and helped us also classify dozens of photographs for training our machine learning classifier. mountainlegacy.ca/2025/01/30/b...

Pleased to share a Case Study Investigation supported by the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Led by PhD candidate by Shima Tajarloo as part of our ongoing work at the intersection of ecological restoration and design. www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-b...

PhD student James Tricker has published an article in Regional Environmental Change that uses new techniques in repeat photography analysis to examine overlapping disturbances—wildfire, fire suppression, and a novel outbreak of mountain pine beetle—in Jasper National Park. rdcu.be/d7q8Z