Natural Resource Management Career Fair November 8th, 2011   Bring your resume and schedule an interview! BOOTHS and WORKSHOPS AT UNBC Bentley Science Centre: 10am-4pm: Visit booths of BC’s NRM employers 11am-12pm: Build Your Resume Roundtable Session 12pm-1pm: Pizza Lunch! 1pm – 2pm: Employer Panel Presentations   SOCIAL NETWORKING AT the Thirsty Moose Pub: 5pm-8pm: Chat with employers and enjoy a presentation by: Glen Wonders from AllNorth Consultants on “How to Really Get a Job in NRM”

Good light reading: http://earthobservatory. nasa Good light reading: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalLandSurvey/ Additional image data source SPOT Canada http://geobase.ca

Global Change monitoring Minimum arctic ice cover Sept 2011 (yellow line = median 1980-2000) Remotely sensed imagery is suitable for monitoring events and changes, with regular orbits

Changes in snowmelt, Greenland

2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since global records began in 1880

Global warming

Robson Glacier 1908-2004 1911-2010

Illecillewaet Glacier, Glacier NP 1898

Kilimanjaro: 1993 and 2000: ice predicted to disappear 2010 Causes ? Global warming b. Lower precipitation c. Intensified land use d. Greater impact of more people

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/archive.php

TERRA satellite 1999 Includes two sensors: MODIS and ASTER MODIS- bands and applications (250 / 500 / 1000m) http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/specifications.php MODIS- sensing for global change research: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/library/pdf/ieeetgrs36_p1228.pdf

Three Gorges Dam, 2001-2003 http://asterweb. jpl. nasa ASTER Land use: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery.asp?catid=50

Urban growth: Fort Worth 1974-1989-2003

Deforestation, Brazil 1986-2000

03 Cranbrook Hill 2003 / 2006 Mountain Pine Beetle

Drought: Lake Chad 1972-1987-2002

August 2009

Climate change: Glacier melt - lake dam collapse: Huarez, Peru A chunk of glacier was threatening to fall into an Andean lake and cause major flooding in a Peruvian city of 60,000. If the piece breaks off, ensuing floods would take 15 minutes to reach the city. In 1941, the lake overflowed and caused massive destruction, killing 7,000 people.

Glacier retreat: Mt. Robson 1923-2005

Central Coast Mountains, Landsat September 2003

Central Coast Mountains, Landsat August 2006 100 m retreat Over 3 years Central Coast Mountains, Landsat August 2006

Salmon Glacier area (Stewart) 230

CanVec (NTDB) image 1965: Andrei and Forrest Kerr Glaciers

BC provincial ‘TRIM’ mapping 1982

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 1999

Aster GDEM2000 -2008

3D Visualisation of past and future change created from air photos, images and mapping Glaciers and vegetation Glacier National Park (Montana)  Animation: http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/research/glacier_animation.gif