Technology
Innovative technology that HADMU is using to enhance data for habitat mapping in multiple areas of work.
What is a drone?
A waterfowl species that frequently causes problems with human/wildlife conflict due to its propensity to nest in urban areas, and, due to overabundance has a special harvest season in Manitoba.
What is a Canada Goose?
John Conkin and CWS collaborations on Whooping Crane work was profiled in this popular magazine in 2024.
What is National Geographic?
What is GAC (Government Acquisition Card)?
This type of disturbance has had impacts on planning and logistics for Terretrial Unit Boreal work in recent years.
What is wildfire?
This is the name of the recording device that is commonly used to gain data on birds in remote locations.
What is an Autonomous Recording Unit (or ARU)?
This lake was the focus of significant clean up of on of Alberta's largest oil spill in 2005, which involved Mike Watmough and other staff from CWS.
What is Wabamun Lake
This individual is presently leading our regional work (within HADMU) on publishing Open Data, and who's recent work lead to publishing Trumpeter Swan data through the "Open Government" data portal.
Who is Maryam Safarshahi?
This person is ultimately responsible for final sign-off (and who's approval is required) for meetings that involve travel to the U.S.A.
Who is the ADM of CWS (or who is Tara Shannon)?
The first human case in Canada of this (in recent history) was recorded in a girl in BC in November 2024. Although the risk of transmision to humans of this virus remains low, Safe Working Proceedures are still important to ensure safety of staff.
What is HPAI (or what is Avian Influenza or bird flu or H5N1)?
TU programs work with this international collaborative research network that uses coordinated automated radio telemetry to facilitate research and education on the ecology and conservation of migratory animals.
What is the Motus Wildlife Tracking System?
This organization is a significant collaborator and leads much of the airial work associated with the Aquatic Unit "air/ground" surveys.
Who is the US Fish and Wildlife Service?
I need a new app developled for field work data entry! This is the person who has attended numerous ESRI and related workshops to develop spatial supported apps.
Who is Zhong Li?
Software that is used to manage finances within ECCC: You will often hear our admin staff reference making entries into this system.
What is SAP?
Prairie Region and staff in the Terrestrial Unit have been key in development and refinement of save work proceedures and ensuring training in place to avoid the risk of attacks from this mammal.
What is a bear?
This revolution in the automotive industry, although helping move to a greener planet, is complicating our ability to do field work in remote locations.
What is an Electric Vehicle (or EV)?
This Joint Venture brings together federal, state/provincial, and conservation agencies across the continent to improve our knowledge and management of North America’s geese populations.
What is the Arctic Goose Joint Venture?
An important part of our work is contributing to improvements in monitoring methodology. This journal is where TU staff (Janine, Barry and Steve) published a recent paper (March 2024) on reducing and documenting false-positive and false-negative errors in acoustic monitoring data.
What is Bioacoustics?
Caren Jones is responsible for administration of this program in CWS Region to ensure outcomes that enhance biodiversity and forest resilience to climate change by planting the right tree species in the right places and restoring wildlife habitat.
What is Two Billion Trees (or 2BT)?
This report needs to be completed in any situations at work where there is an incident (including but not limited to serious near misses, injury, motor vehicle accidents, serious accidents, and emergencies).
What is a Hazardous Occurrence Investigation Report (or HOIR)?
Who is Data Services Branch?
This group of birds has a bundle of species that are of increasing concern for arctic breeders, and the focus of recent COSIWIC work that is and will involve Janet Ng and others in the Terrestrial Unit.
What are shorebirds?
In 2024 we said goodbye to a friend and colleage, Kevin Dufour. Kevin contributed to many publications advancing knowledge in waterfowl management. In a 2017 publication (co-authored with Blake), this species of waterfowl was the focus, using 55 years of banding data in Prairie Canada.
What is Northern Pintail?
This cryptographic process transforms readable data into an unreadable format using a key.
What is encryption?
Who is Jim Leafloor?