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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our Geospatial Centre uses #geospatial tools and data to map and model human footprint, cumulative effects, and ecosystems. We provide the information needed to understand a rapidly changing world and support effective land-use decision-making. biodiversitypathways.ca/our-initiati...
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Geospatial Centre
The Geospatial Centre develops spatial data to understand landscape change.
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The second edition of our newsletter Connections is out! Read about a new online grant tracking app to find and filter funding opportunities and a workshop for the Mapping Ecological Corridors Project with the Thompson-Nicola Conservation Collaborative: wildlifescience.ca/connections-...
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Connections: Spring 2026
The latest newsletter from the Partnerships for Applied Research (PARC) Team.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
nice story in the @thenarwhal.ca featuring recent #WiRELab postdoc @m-mclellan.bsky.social, now with @biodivpathways.bsky.social , on grizzly bear restoration. #WildlifeRestoration B.C. First Nations are bringing grizzlies back to the North Cascades | The Narwhal share.google/eKDozFh1potq...
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B.C. First Nations are bringing grizzlies back to the North Cascades | The Narwhal
In the cross-border North Cascades mountain range, First Nations in B.C. are working to restore an ecological and cultural relationship with grizzlies
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Urban noise can have detrimental effects on both human health and biodiversity. In 2025, SENSR began a pilot project to assess noise in Edmonton’s natural areas and its effects on both human and non-human city dwellers with the Edmonton Valley Zoo and the University of Alberta.
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
That’s a wrap on the first year of the Wigwam Flats Ecosystem Enhancement Project! This five-year project is focused on restoring hundreds of hectares in the Wigwam Flats area in BC to support bighorn sheep, mule deer, and overall biodiversity and ecosystem health. Read on for highlights:
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Wildland Foundations project is focused on the impacts of extreme #wildfire on Indigenous use of land, and on efforts to prevent extreme wildfire by restoring #prescribedburns to the landscape. Read all about the first year of the project: biodiversitypathways.ca/the-latest-f...
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The latest from Wildland Foundations
A multi-year project focusing on the impacts of extreme wildfire and efforts to return prescribed burns to the landscape
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Boreal Avian Modelling Centre is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to develop high-resolution, Canada-wide models of waterbird density. The models will be used as indicators of local wetland health and large-scale environmental change. Open until filled! borealbirds.ca/postdoctoral...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Had a great day in Kamloops workshopping #connectivity with community leaders, managers, and scientists. @biodivpathways.bsky.social
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Habitat recovery is a key aspect of caribou conservation – but how do we know when a disturbed area has recovered? The latest briefing note from the CCLM Knowledge Network summarizes an approach using ecological indicators of recovery from DeMars et al. (2025): www.cclmportal.ca/resource/whe...
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We are looking for a PhD student with a desire to interweave different ways of knowing to understand boreal birds in the far north of Ontario! See the posting below for details. #bioacoustics
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It's the last week to apply to be our Manager of Operations! If you have a track record of successfully building multi-stakeholder biodiversity research and monitoring programs, consider joining our team! Full details, including compensation: biodiversitypathways.ca/contact-us/ #hiring #jobs
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We're #hiring a Manager of Operations! Respect and collaboration are integral to our work: if you have a track record of successfully building multi-stakeholder biodiversity research and monitoring programs, consider joining our team! Full details, including compensation, are available below 🔽
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
good coverage from @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social on an overlooked issue: rail-wildlife collisions. Featuring @biodivpathways.bsky.social scientist @claytontlamb.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Hundreds of animals killed by trains on B.C. railroads, documents reveal. So, what’s being done to stop it? | CBC News
Documents obtained through freedom of information requests by The Narwhal and shared with CBC News show hundreds of animals have been killed in collisions with trains on B.C. tracks owned by Canada's ...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We're #hiring a Manager of Operations! Respect and collaboration are integral to our work: if you have a track record of successfully building multi-stakeholder biodiversity research and monitoring programs, consider joining our team! Full details, including compensation, are available below 🔽
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Now online: the 24-25 annual report from the Boreal Avian Modelling Centre (BAM)! Read about work on: 🐦 boreal bird population models that bring together >1.45 million bird surveys 🌲 bird responses to forestry, mining, and wildfire 📊 open access bird data and tools borealbirds.ca/bam-2024-25-...
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BAM 2024-25 Annual Report : Boreal Avian Modelling Centre
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The @abbiodiversity.bsky.social is hiring a statistical ecologist! This is my previous position and is IMO an awesome job. Focus will be on birds 🐦 and acoustics 🔉, holler if you'd like to chat about it! Learn more & apply by October 30, 2025: abmi.ca/abmi-home/co...
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Statistical Ecologist
<p>The Human Footprint Analyst plays a pivotal role in one of ABMI&rsquo;s most recognized programs&mdash;the Human Footprint Monitoring Program&mdash;tracking human land use patterns across Alberta&r...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Grateful to get to share the Wildland Foundations project at the WRCC Building Foundational Knowledge Gathering last week! biodiversitypathways.ca/our-initiati...
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Wildland Foundations
Fire Risk Mitigation in Indigenous Communities
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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative @y2y.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Join us Oct. 15 at noon MT to learn how remote cameras and GPS collars are revealing wildlife movement patterns along Highway 3. Researchers will share insights on animal crossings — and how we can make journeys for all safer through this landscape. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A map of various planned and in construction wildlife crossings on Highway 3 through southern Alberta and B.C.
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What goes on Biodiversity Pathways? Read our latest annual report to find out! Learn about mammal research and monitoring led by the Wildlife Science Centre; environmental sensor research with SENSR; and human footprint mapping by the Geospatial Centre. biodiversitypathways.ca/annual-repor...
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Biodiversity Pathways Annual Report 2024-25
We're pleased to share our annual report from 2024-25.
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Ever wondered if bats are in your neighbourhood? 🦇 Alberta libraries now offer borrowable "Bat Kits"! Each kit has a detector & resources to help you listen for bats. Check your library (and ask about inter-library loans) or learn more: www.albertabats.ca/batkits/
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Bat Kits - Alberta Community Bat Program
Library Loan Kits We are rolling out library loan kits in select communities across Alberta. Stay tuned to learn more about where to reserve yours.  Participating Libraries The following libraries hos...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The Wildland Foundations project aims to understand the impact of #wildfire on wildlife, habitat, and forest structure; cultural sites; and Indigenous use of traditional lands in four NRCAN-funded demonstration sites. Take a tour of the project: biodiversitypathways.ca/our-initiati...
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Wildland Foundations
Fire Risk Mitigation in Indigenous Communities
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We're #hiring! We’re looking for skilled animal identifiers! Work remotely and process images and recordings from environmental sensors using the WildTrax platform. You will be the essential link between field work and results! sensr.ca/opportunity/... #environmentaljobs #wildlife
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Acoustic and Image Processing Contractors
Contract Positions Available: 6 When: September 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 with extension depending on performance Where: Work may be conducted remotely with a stable, high-speed internet connection  Wo...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We're #hiring! We’re looking for skilled animal identifiers! Work remotely and process images and recordings from environmental sensors using the WildTrax platform. You will be the essential link between field work and results! sensr.ca/opportunity/... #environmentaljobs #wildlife
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Acoustic and Image Processing Contractors
Contract Positions Available: 6 When: September 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 with extension depending on performance Where: Work may be conducted remotely with a stable, high-speed internet connection  Wo...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The southern Rocky Mountains provide a critical but narrow connection between grizzly #bear populations in North America. In a #newpaper, over twenty years of GPS collar data was used to understand where bears go and why in the southern Rocky Mountains. tinyurl.com/3kbfsvcu
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New study looks at grizzly bear movements and habitat choices—and the influence of human infrastructure
Over twenty years of GPS collar data was used to understand where bears go and why in the southern Rocky Mountains
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Melanie Dickie @melaniedickie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Not gonna lie, it’s pretty cool! So grateful for everything in my PhD that led me here.
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
HawkEars, a new AI tool that identifies Canadian birds and amphibians in audio recordings, could improve how ecologists monitor and study wildlife. Learn about its development and its potential on CBC's Edmonton AM in "AI for the birds": www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Miistakis Institute @miistakis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We have installed 80 wildlife cameras in SW Alberta to monitor wildlife near Highway 3! This was a big effort by our project team and we look forward to sharing project updates and results... and fun wildlife photos. 😎 @claytontlamb.bsky.social @ncccnc.bsky.social @y2y.bsky.social
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Miistakis Institute @miistakis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Reconnecting the Rockies - BC is focused on improving motorist and wildlife safety on Highway 3 in SE BC. Already, 8.4 km of fencing has been installed and 6 underpasses have been retrofitted to allow for wildlife movement! @ncccnc.bsky.social @biodivpathways.bsky.social @claytontlamb.bsky.social
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Over the next five years, the Government of Alberta is building #wildlife crossing structures along Highway 3 — and we're part of a team studying how animals use these crossings. Wildlife scientist Clayton Lamb shares more about the project on CBC Daybreak South: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🎉 If you've worked with Wildlife Science Centre caribou ecologist @melaniedickie.bsky.social, you won't be surprised she received the Governor General Gold Medal for Academic Excellence for her PhD research! Nor will you be surprised by the Taylor Swift reference. science.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06/06/d...
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Dr. Melanie Dickie’s doctoral journey earns Governor General Gold Medal for Academic Excellence
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We're #hiring a #wildlife camera coordinator! This highly collaborative position works with the wider monitoring community to develop and process camera projects. Full details available online, apply by June 16: sensr.ca/opportunity/...
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Clayton T. Lamb @claytontlamb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Need an electric fence in the Elk Valley, BC? Want to remove an unused fruit tree? Reach out to kootenaycostshares@gov.bc.ca and you can get financial support to keep your property safer from bears. More info here: wildlifescience.ca/projects/wil...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We're #hiring a #wildlife camera coordinator! This highly collaborative position works with the wider monitoring community to develop and process camera projects. Full details available online, apply by June 16: sensr.ca/opportunity/...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Today is the last day to apply!
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics 1/n
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HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier
Passive acoustic monitoring is rapidly emerging as a dominant approach for studying acoustic wildlife, with neural networks used as an increasingly co…
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada. Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025: wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati... #biodiversity #mammals #wildlife
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada. Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025: wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati... #biodiversity #mammals #wildlife
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I'm super excited to step into this new role! For 20 years, BAM has made enormous contributions to boreal bird conservation; I am deeply honoured to steward and continue those contributions as part of the Biodiversity Pathways family. We've got lots of exciting collaborative work on the horizons!
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This April, we welcomed the Boreal Avian Modelling Project (now Centre!) to Biodiversity Pathways! We are pleased to announce that @ellycknight.bsky.social has taken on the new role of Operational Director at BAM for this next chapter. biodiversitypathways.ca/bam-joins-bp/
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BAM is now the Boreal Avian Modelling Centre with Biodiversity Pathways
As of April 1, 2025, BAM has become the fourth initiative under Biodiversity Pathways.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
AI is moving faster than the publication process. If a paper is rejected, it’s virtually obsolete because scientists are onto the next model generation. This @naturemethods.bsky.social was fun to report! Thx to @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @ellycknight.bsky.social @conservationxlabs.bsky.social!
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AI carves out a niche in ecology and conservation research - Nature Methods
Scientists who study biodiversity are in the rapid adoption phase of AI. They are finding that what AI can — and can’t — do is shifting rapidly.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Had a blast today on a panel with Mateen Hessami from @biodivpathways.bsky.social and @jennbonnell.bsky.social at the BC Studies conference at sunny UBC. We covered wildlife history, the North American Model, and why all roads lead to moose!
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit (MOTT) is working with SENSR to understand how animals use wildlife crossing structures across BC. Wildlife crossing structures not only help wildlife move across the landscape but also improve road safety. sensr.ca/story/crossi...
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Crossing Structure Use with MOTT
Cameras have been deployed at wildlife overpasses, underpasses, and culverts across BC to assess crossing success and turn-back rates of different species.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great example of #WildlifeRestoration, featuring #WiRELab postdoc @m-mclellan.bsky.social and alumni Mateen Hessami in partnership with @biodivpathways.bsky.social and many more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_sz...
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Joint Nations Grizzly Bear Initiative: North Cascades Grizzly Bear Reintroduction
YouTube video by Joint Nations Grizzly Bear Initiative
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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative @y2y.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re excited to share the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit. Last May, the Tahltan Central Government & the WSC hosted a workshop in Dease Lake, BC. The goal: collect and weave traditional and scientific knowledge on northern mountain caribou. Read + watch more:
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Building bridges for caribou conservation in northern British Columbia - Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
What happens when traditional knowledge and scientific expertise unite for caribou?
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We're excited to share the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit. Last May, the Tahltan Central Government & the WSC co-hosted a workshop in Dease Lake, BC. The goal? Collect and weave traditional and scientific knowledge on northern mountain caribou. #WorldWildlifeDay tinyurl.com/4uj86nek
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The Northern Mountain Caribou Summit
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Last May, the Tahltan Central Government and the Wildlife Science Centre co-hosted a knowledge gathering workshop on northern mountain caribou in Dease Lake, BC. Tune in March 3 to hear the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit. youtu.be/p_t0WYXPOuA
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The Northern Mountain Caribou Summit (trailer)
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Postdoc opportunity: work with the Boreal Avian Modelling project on habitat models for boreal birds! Applications are being accepted until the position is filled. tinyurl.com/3bkb838e #remotesensing #avianecology @ellycknight.bsky.social
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A celebration of a new way to build partnerships for wildlife research in Canada - featuring @talavgar.bsky.social and with a shoutout from Minister @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social ! @ubcokanagan.bsky.social @biodivpathways.bsky.social biodiversitypathways.ca/eccc-funding...
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Funding for caribou recovery research at University of British Columbia Okanagan
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Biodiversity Pathways have established an exciting four-year contribution agreement. This agreement provides seed funding through ECCC's Canada Nature ...
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Biodiversity Pathways have established a four-year contribution agreement to improve science capacity for caribou research and human footprint mapping in British Columbia. Learn more on our news page: biodiversitypathways.ca/eccc-funding...
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Funding for caribou recovery research at University of British Columbia Okanagan
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Biodiversity Pathways have established an exciting four-year contribution agreement. This agreement provides seed funding through ECCC's Canada Nature ...
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!
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