New Ways to Use Digital Technology in the Field conference
- Start Date: May 15, 2013
- End Date: May 16, 2013
- City: Castlegar, BC
- Venue: Selkirk College
The conference summary is available here. (1.8 MB PDF download)
Our keynote speaker, Dr. Greg Newman of Colorado State University, spoke about “Technology to empower citizen scientists”. To view Dr. Newman’s presentation, visit the “Videos” section of the Rural Development Institute website, and look for Dr. Newman’s 55 minute video. CMI thanks the Rural Development Institute at Selkirk College for making this video available.
Workshop description
New technologies have changed the way that research on aquatic, terrestrial, and human ecology is carried out. Increasingly, people are taking smartphones, tablets, and other devices into the field to increase their productivity. Citizen science and social media are effective ways to increase data collection and collaboration. We offered a day of oral presentations, a day of hands-on demonstrations, and opportunities for networking with experts and other participants. The workshop summary will help you follow-up on the new things you’ve learned.
Columbia Mountains Institute was pleased to partner with the following agencies to host this event:
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Selkirk College, School of Environment and Geomatics, Castlegar |
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Columbia Basin Trust is a regional corporation created to deliver social, economic, and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin. |
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Summit Environmental Consultants offers a wide range of environmental consulting services, expanded in 2011 to include facilitation, mediation, and decision support services. |
Oral presentations offered on May 15, 2013
Keynote speaker:
Dr. Greg Newman of Colorado State University
Technology to empower citizen scientists
- Hitchhiker’s guide to starting mobile data collection, Jase Zwarich, Summit Environmental Consultants
- Clipboard vs. mobile apps: QA/QC in the field, Rebekka Lindskoog, Summit Environmental Consultants
- GPS Demystified, Sidney Kwakkel, Summit Environmental Consultants
- Timesavers translated from the field to office: Mobile Government Database (VENUS) and GIS Applications, Carrie Nadeau, Summit Environmental Consultant
- Smartphones in the field: Examples of software that enables multi-user data collection, Dr. Brendan Wilson, Selkirk College.
- Monitoring rangelands using mobile digital technologies, Matthew Braun, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
- Report-a-Weed, Nancy Elliot, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
- Automated grain size method in ecohydrology, Giles Shearing, University of British Columbia
- Use of newly developed iPad App for the collection and processing of water quality field data to assess fine sediment generation from road networks, David Maloney, Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Brian Carson, Carson Land Resources Management
- Rethinking digital connections, Eva Johansson, Kootenay Camas Project
Demonstrations and mini-courses held on May 16
- YSI EXO: The latest technology for water quality monitoring, Shawn Ternan, Hoskin Scientific Ltd.
- Rangeland health assessments using a variety of techniques, Matthew Braun and Nancy Elliot, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
- Hands-on with Trimbles, Rebekka Lindskoog, Carrie Nadeau, Sidney Kwakkel, and Jase Zwarich, Summit Environmental Consultants
- Using an iPad for navigation and completing field forms, Chris Oman, Forest Practices Board
- Clipboard vs. mobile apps: QA/QC in the field, Rebekka Lindskoog, Summit Environmental Consultants
- Using iNaturalist, Valerie Huff and Eva Johansson of Kootenay Native Plant Society, and Ian Parfitt, Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre
- Using iPads for GIS applications in the field, Jared Hobbs, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
