• Weather Awareness: On the Lookout for Wildfire in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

  Walsh, Kristen Anne; Sanseverino, Mary; Higgs, Eric S. (Mountain Research and Development, 2017)

  Mountains are crucial places in which to observe, experience, and learn about rapid weather and climate shifts, felt to varying degrees in different contexts. Fire lookout observers, immersed in the mountain environments ...
• Diabetes and Diabetes Care among Nonobese Japanese-Americans: Findings from a Population-Based Study 

  Kobayashi, Karen; Chan, Keith Tsz-Kit; Roy, Adity; Khan, Mushira Mohsin; Fuller-Thomson, Esme (Advances in Preventive Medicine, 2019)

  Objectives. The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to determine the prevalence of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans and to determine the adjusted odds of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans compared ...
• Corridors best facilitate functional connectivity across a protected area network 

  Stewart, Frances E.C.; Darlington, Siobhan; Volpe, John P.; McAdie, Malcolm; Fisher, Jason T. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  Biologging data allow animal ecologists to directly measure species’ fine-scale spatiotemporal responses to environments, such as movement – critical for our understanding of biodiversity declines in the Anthropocene. ...
• Grizzly Bear Noninvasive Genetic Tagging Surveys: Estimating the Magnitude of Missed Detections 

  Fisher, Jason T.; Heim, Nicole; Code, Sandra; Paczkowski, John (PLoS ONE, 2016)

  Sound wildlife conservation decisions require sound information, and scientists increasingly rely on remotely collected data over large spatial scales, such as noninvasive genetic tagging (NGT). Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), ...
• Estimates of landscape composition from terrestrial oblique photographs suggest homogenization of Rocky Mountain landscapes over the last century 

  Fortin, Julie A.; Fisher, Jason T.; Rhemtulla, Jeanine M.; Higgs, Eric S. (Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2018)

  While orthogonal (i.e., aerial or satellite) imagery has become the more conventional source of land cover data because it can yield spatially accurate land cover maps, terrestrial oblique photographs present a valuable, ...
• Wolverine behavior varies spatially with anthropogenic footprint: implications for conservation and inferences about declines 

  Stewart, Frances E.C.; Heim, Nicole A.; Clevenger, Anthony P.; Paczkowski, John; Volpe, John P.; Fisher, Jason T. (Ecology and Evolution, 2016)

  Understanding a species’ behavioral response to rapid environmental change is an ongoing challenge in modern conservation. Anthropogenic landscape modification, or “human footprint,” is well documented as a central cause ...
• Species occurrence data reflect the magnitude of animal movements better than the proximity of animal space use 

  Stewart, Frances E.C.; Fisher, Jason T.; Burton, A. Cole; Volpe, John P. (Ecosphere, 2018)

  Animal ecologists often use stationary point‐count surveys, such as camera traps, to collect presence–absence data and infer distribution, abundance, and density of species. Rarely do these surveys explicitly consider ...
• Schema Provoke False Knowing Even When Schema-Consistent Targets Had Not Been Presented 

  Yamada, Ryoma; Itsukushima, Yukio; Azad, Tanjeem; Lindsay, D. Stephen (International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2014)

  Human memory is not always an accurate record of experienced events. Information that has never been experienced but is consistent with a relevant schema is sometimes mistaken as memory, giving rise to false memories. In ...
• Fundamentals of Demographic Analysis: Concepts, Measures, and Methods 

  Burch, Thomas K. (Canadian Studies in Population, 2017)
• Passive Microwave Melt Onset Retrieval Based on a Variable Threshold: Assessment in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago 

  Marshall, Stephen; Scott, K. Andrea; Scharien, Randall K. (Remote Sensing, 2019)

  The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) presents unique challenges to the determination of melt onset (MO) using remote sensing data. High spatial resolution data is required to discern melt onset among the islands and narrow ...
• Effects of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings on the Underwater Light Field in the Tapajós River Basin, Brazilian Amazon 

  Lobo, Felipe de Lucia; Costa, Maycira; Novo, Evlyn M. L. M.; Telmer, Kevin (Remote Sensing, 2017)

  Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) within the Amazon region has created several environmental impacts, such as mercury contamination and changes in water quality due to increased siltation. This paper describes ...
• Bangladeshi Migrants of Italy and Their Precarity 

  Roy, Nilanjana; Verdun, Amy (Social Sciences, 2019)

  Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others. Given the sudden surge of Bangladeshi migration to Italy in recent ...
• Uncovering regional variability in disturbance trends between parks and greater park ecosystems across Canada (1985–2015) 

  Bolton, Douglas K.; Coops, Nicholas C.; Hermosilla, Txomin; Wulder, Michael A.; White, Joanne C.; Ferster, Colin J. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  We assess the protective function of Canada’s parks and protected areas (PPAs) by analyzing three decades of stand-replacing disturbance derived from Landsat time series data (1985–2015). Specifically, we compared rates ...
• Seasonal and Diurnal Characteristics of Land Surface Temperature and Major Explanatory Factors in Harris County, Texas 

  Liu, Weibo; Feddema, Johannes; Hu, Leiqiu; Zung, Ashley; Brunsell, Nathaniel (Sustainability, 2017)

  The effects of biophysical and meteorological factors on land surface temperature (LST) have been well studied in previous research. However, less attention has been paid to examine how building materials influence the ...
• Winter Sentinel-1 Backscatter as a Predictor of Spring Arctic Sea Ice Melt Pond Fraction 

  Scharien, Randall K.; Segal, Rebecca; Nasonova, Sasha; Nandan, Vishnu; Howell, Stephen E. L.; Haas, Christian (Geophysical Research Letters, 2017)

  Spring melt pond fraction (fp) has been shown to influence September sea ice extent and, with a growing need to improve melt pond physics in climate and forecast models, observations at large spatial scales are needed. We ...
• Adaptive capacity: From assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems 

  Whitney, Charlotte K.; Bennett, Nathan J.; Ban, Natalie C.; Allison, Edward H.; Armitage, Derek; Blythe, Jessica L.; Burt, Jenn M.; Cheung, William; Finkbeiner, Elena M.; Kaplan-Hallam, Maery; Perry, Ian; Turner, Nancy J.; Yumagulova, Lilia (Ecology and Society, 2017)

  Because of the complexity and speed of environmental, climatic, and socio-political change in coastal marine social-ecological systems, there is significant academic and applied interest in assessing and fostering the ...
• Generalized Structured Component Analysis with Uniqueness Terms for Accommodating Measurement Error 

  Hwang, Heungsun; Takane, Yoshio; Jung, Kwanghee (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)

  Generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) is a component-based approach to structural equation modeling (SEM), where latent variables are approximated by weighted composites of indicators. It has no formal mechanism ...
• Characterizing the Water Balance of the Sooke Reservoir, British Columbia over the Last Century 

  Werner, Arelia T.; Prowse, Terry D.; Bonsal, Barrie R. (Climate, 2015)

  Infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs are critical water-supply features in several regions of the world. However, ongoing population growth, increased demand and climate variability/change necessitate the better ...
• Insights on fostering the emergence of robust conservation actions from Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program 

  Biggs, Duan; Ban, Natalie C.; Castilla, Juan Carlos; Gelcich, Stefan; Mills, Morena; Gandiwa, Edson; Etienne, Michel; Knight, Andrew T.; Marquet, Pablo A.; Possingham, Hugh P. (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019)

  One strategy to address threats to biodiversity in the face of ongoing budget constraints is to create an enabling environment that facilitates individuals, communities and other groups to self-organise to achieve conservation ...
• Stable isotope data (oxygen-18 and deuterium) from surveys of lakes, wetlands, rivers, and input waters across the South Athabasca Oil Sands region, Alberta, 2007–2009 

  Gibson, J.J.; Birks, S.J.; Moncur, M.C. (Data in Brief, 2019)

  Oxygen-18 and deuterium analyses of water samples are provided from a regional survey of lakes, wetlands, soil waters, groundwaters, and snowpack samples collected in the Southern Athabasca Oil Sands (SAOS) region, Alberta, ...

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