repeat photography, historical ecology, and climate change in the western canadian cordillera [eric...
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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Repeat photography, historical
ecology, and climate change in
the western Canadian Cordillera
Eric Higgs, Professor
School of Environmental Studies
University of Victoria, Canada
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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
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Phototopographic
surveys
1888-1958
British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon
Dominion Topographic Survey
Geological Survey
Boundary surveys
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One of 16 map sheets prepared for the interprovincial
(BC/Alberta) boundary survey based on 1915
photographic data.
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>140,000 glass plates
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4,000 repeat photo pairs
hundreds of locations
focusing to date on the
eastern slopes of the
Rockies
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J.J. Macarthur, 1888: Banff National Park
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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)
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Roush 2009
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The Mountain Legacy Project | mountainlegacy.ca
Securing the legacy
Repeat photography
Interpretation & analysis
New techniques for visualization
Communicating the legacy
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