New Brunswick Natural Climate Solutions Scenario Analysis
A scenario analysis was completed for the Government of New Brunswick using the ALCES landscape simulation model to explore potential future ecosystem carbon dynamics in the province. The capacity of ecosystems to sequester and store carbon in biomass and soil can be affected by fire and by land uses such as forestry, agriculture, and settlement expansion. A range of datasets and references were applied to identify relationships to track the effect of landscape dynamics and management practices on ecosystem carbon.
New paper on how Indigenous Knowledge and simulation modeling can be combined to comprehensively assess cumulative impacts to Indigenous rights
A new publication describes how Indigenous Knowledge and simulation modeling can be combined to comprehensively assess cumulative impacts to Indigenous rights. The approach was developed by IEG to address deficiencies in Canada’s environmental assessment process that result in incomplete assessment of impacts and insufficient opportunity for Indigenous led projects and collaboration…
Community revegetation program at the Faro mine
In 2020, IEG began working with Dena Cho Environmental and Remediation Inc. and CIRNAC on the revegetation program at the Faro Mine, located on Kaska traditional territory in south-central Yukon.…
IEG launches free mine-reclamation ecohydrology tool
IEG has spent almost a decade, and substantial effort, developing quantitative approaches to ecohydrological analysis, reclamation-cover design, and projection of post-closure ecosystems on mining landscapes. The culmination of this work…
Collaborative research with Nlaka’pamux communities: Effects of dust on soapberry in BC
IEG staff and colleagues worked with Nlaka’pamux communities and Teck’s Highland Valley Copper mine in south-central British Columbia to develop and implement a study to examine the effects of mine…
New paper examining the potential effects of coal-mine development on water quality in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
Research published in Science of the Total Environment explores potential outcomes of development of coal mines in the Oldman River Basin of southwest Alberta on selenium concentrations in receiving environments…
COVID-19, Indigenous Communities, Health Sovereignty, and Working Together for a Change
Two exciting opportunities we would like to share include: 1) Digital Health Initiative The Digital Health Initiative was developed by Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin. The initiative aims to improve access to and…
New paper on cumulative effects of disturbance to bird populations
A paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution presents a modeling study exploring long-term bird population responses in northeastern Alberta (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00252/full). IEG ecologist Matt Carlson, one of the paper’s…
Integration is Needed!
According to a report by the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on integrated natural resource management (INRM), conventional methods of natural resource management haven’t kept pace with the…
Getting My Hands Dirty- Restoration Volunteering
A few weeks ago, I was walking my dog along the rugged Victoria shoreline when I saw some City of Victoria employees working on an eroded slope just up from…
