*OUR APOLOGIES, BUT JOHN IS NOT AVAILABLE IN PERSON FOR THIS TALK Instead we will be showing a recently pre-recorded program of Dr. Pomeroy presenting his team’s findings about forecasts for ice, water, and climate in Southern Alberta and Southern Rockies.Please join us for some thought-provoking science and conservation conversations.  Dr. Pomeroy, among many other distinctions,… Read More »Changes in Mountain Snow, Ice and Water around the World – Local implications and Global Prospects with John Pomeroy*

Join us with Ron Groves for their presentation "Electric Vehicles Fact and Fiction: Driving in Winter and Choosing the Right One". P.S. If you haven't already, check out this unique Winter EV Driving VIP Experience offered by Edmund Ong and Ron Groves presented by the Biosphere and Plug'n Drive! This Earth Talks event, with the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley, will… Read More »Electric Vehicles Fact and Fiction: Driving in Winter and Choosing the Right One with Ron Groves

WATCH VIDEO RECORDING VIEW PDF OF SLIDE PRESENTATION plus our AGM (we promise to be brief!) Catharine Robb Whyte Building, 101 Bear Street, Banff More people than ever are enjoying the outdoors, and governments are investing in recreation infrastructure—but we still lack the tools to fully understand where and how people are using the landscape.… Read More »Balancing Outdoor Recreation and Wildlife Conservation: Insights from collaborative recreation ecology research with Annie Loosen, Wildlife Ecologist

Canmore Public Library, Elevation Place

WATCH VIDEO NOW AUDIO ONLY (may need to download first) view PDF version here Catharine Robb Whyte Building, 101 Bear Street, Banff. Everyone welcome. FREE Rewilding aims to reintroduce keystone species to fill ecological niches vacated by their loss. One of the key assumptions of this restoration approach, however, is that reintroduced or recovered species… Read More »Menu of the Mountains: Food Web Ecology of Bison, Elk, and Bighorn Sheep in Banff with Jonathan Farr

WATCH/ LISTEN TO RECORDING NOW: Video Slide Show Audio (* takes a few seconds to load) Catharine Robb Whyte Building 101 Bear Street, Banff - above the Banff Public Library Free! The Elk Valley is one of Canada’s most intensively used landscapes by both people and grizzly bears. Despite high levels of industrial and recreational… Read More »Crossing Lines: Grizzly Bear Connectivity, Source–Sink Dynamics, and Highway Mitigation in the southern Canadian Rockies with Clayton Lamb

The Gem Event Centre,  located at 900A Harvie Heights Road The Resilience Institute is a national charity dedicated to reducing the suffering caused by climate change impacts. Our team is hosting a community-to-community learning event on wildfire resilience in Canmore in late April, and we want to extend the invite representatives from the Bow Valley… Read More »Wildfire Resilience and screening of The Test documentary film