Company Profile
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Company Overview
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) is a value-neutral scientific organization that tracks the status and trend of biodiversity and land-use throughout Alberta, Canada. Our mission is to provide open-access, scientifically credible, and relevant information on the province’s species and landscapes on an ongoing basis—for Alberta’s land-use decision makers, and for all Albertans. Working in partnership and collaboration with many organizations, our program has grown into one of the largest of its kind in the world. We monitor species and landscape-scale biodiversity responses to environmental change through a standardized, long-term
monitoring system that includes both on-the-ground field work and remote sensing. We develop and share tools to effectively manage our diverse data and data products, and continuously explore new, interactive ways to share biodiversity information and
ensure it remains openly accessible to anyone, for free, far into the future.
Company History
Collaborations are at the heart of our operations.
Since day one, landholders across Alberta have granted us access to their land for environmental monitoring. Over the years, we’ve developed joint monitoring programs and projects that leverage the individual strengths of each partner. Examples include the Caribou Monitoring Unit (soon to become the Wildlife Science Centre), Bioacoustic Unit, WildTrax, Biodiversity Pathways, and more. Working together helps to build networks of individuals and organizations with common goals, and enhance capacity for environmental monitoring. We are proud to support Indigenous Communities in pursuing their priorities for environmental monitoring through our Community-based Monitoring and Engagement Unit. We have co-developed multiple discrete monitoring programs — focused on hunted and trapped species, culturally valuable plants, and wetlands — with several Alberta Indigenous Communities.
Albertans are our essential partners in biodiversity monitoring.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Our program helps reveal where Alberta’s species are found, how their populations are changing, and what’s contributing to these changes. We use remote sensing tools like satellite imagery, cloud computing, and machine learning to map and monitor the extent and type of human footprint (visible changes to the landscape caused by human activity) and vegetation. We also conduct field surveys across the province. In doing so, we’ve collected data on more than 3000 species and our taxonomists have identified species new to Alberta and even new to science!
Benefits
- Food stipend provided to cover food costs
- Accommodation provided for the entire contract
- Receive taxonomic ID training from some of Alberta's top taxonomists
- Travel and explore the many natural regions of Alberta
- Meet coworkers that turn into lifelong friends
- Collect high quality data used to understand Alberta’s environment