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This week, BERA_Project researchers met at the annual #BERA spring retreat in Kananaskis. We had a great time field planning, sharing research ideas, and spending time at Barrier Lake!

Welcome to our new field assistants! Let the fieldwork begin!

Field season is here! BERA researchers kicked off the 2023 field season last week in northern Alberta.

Can you spot all three cubs?!

Here's a field skill we always struggle with early in the season: leveling and centering a tripod over a survey monument. This video shows how it's done. #YoureWelcome #GNSS #RTK #Surveying youtu.be/swwUOyoJubA

Leg day! #WaterWells #Clay #BorealSwamps

BERA researchers are using geemap by Qiusheng Wu (Qiusheng Wu) to help bridge the gap between Google Earth Engine and Python for their satellite imagery analysis. geemap.org

Interested in a more inclusive, ethical ecological practice? Check out this paper by Trisos, Auerbach and Katti. nature.com/articles/s4155… Christopher Trisos Jess_Auerbach @leafwarbler

Construction is 'well' underway on wells and piezometers for #BERA and #Aspen projects to be installed in the coming weeks!

AGRG team members enjoying beautiful Quebec City! So exciting to share our restoration research at Québec RE3 Conference 2023 this week #QuebecRE3

.Mitacs and #ABBYNet student Pauline exploring some of the beautiful #ABrivers and streams in search of new gauging stations!

Working hard or hardly working? That’s for you to decide. While you're deciding, we're taking the 5445th soil moisture reading of this trip! #fieldwork #seismiclines #boreal BERA_Project

Cocktail day in the field! Brenda (our pH meter) is thirsty for a drink, luckily we have the best buffer bartender in town, Sean! We have her favourites ready: pH Buffer 4.01, pH Buffer 7.00, pH Buffer 10.01, and her favourite conductivity standard 1413 μS! It’s calibration time!

Caltha palustris (also known as marsh marigold) captured in one of our field sites 🌿💛 #plants

An awesome cyanotype workshop hosted by one of our grad students last week, all using plants from our field sites! What a perfect way to preserve our memories. #ScienceandArt #PlantArt

Our field sites can look very different throughout the year... only 48 days will make a world of difference! Summers are short at 56 degrees north but growth is abundant. It’s amazing how our research sites can grow a fully formed researcher in the span of less than two months!

Embracing the elements! Field work fun in the rain 🌧️ #DataCollection

Admiring the round-leaved sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) captured in the field. 🌿

The past few months have passed in the blink of an eye- it's almost time to wrap up another field season!

Here are some of the mushrooms seen by our team this field season! First-to-last we have: Rickenella fibula, Laccaria laccata, (a bitten) Suillus americanus, and members of the wax cap family!