1. 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”

2. Good light reading: http://earthobservatory. nasa
Good light reading: Additional image data source SPOT Canada

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

4. Changes in snowmelt, Greenland

5. 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since global records began in 1880

6. Global warming

7. Robson Glacier

8. Illecillewaet Glacier, Glacier NP
1898

10. 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

13. TERRA satellite 1999 Includes two sensors: MODIS and ASTER
MODIS- bands and applications (250 / 500 / 1000m)
MODIS- sensing for global change research:

14. Three Gorges Dam, 2001-2003 http://asterweb. jpl. nasa
ASTER Land use:

15. Urban growth: Fort Worth 1974-1989-2003

16. Deforestation, Brazil 1986-2000

17. 03
Cranbrook Hill 2003 / 2006
Mountain Pine Beetle

18. Drought: Lake Chad

19. August 2009

20. 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.

21. Glacier retreat: Mt. Robson 1923-2005

22. Central Coast Mountains, Landsat September 2003

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

25. Salmon Glacier area (Stewart)
230

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

27. BC provincial ‘TRIM’ mapping 1982

28. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 1999

29. Aster GDEM

30. 3D Visualisation of past and future change created from air photos, images and mapping
Glaciers and vegetation Glacier National Park (Montana) 
Animation: