Eric Higgs

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

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A new Nature #ClimateChange Focus Issue on #OurChangingMountains brings together research on:

❄️ Accelerating #GlacierLoss
⛰️ Changing slope vegetation dynamics
💧 #WaterSecurity for billions
⛷️ Tourism & cultural transformation

Read more 📖 bit.ly/4aeccHV

#MountainsMatter #MountainResearch

Looking forward to next Thursday’s (Feb 12, 7 p.m.) event with Kula: Library Futures Academy @uvic.ca to celebrate Mountain Voices, a collection of essays and photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. @uvicenvi.bsky.social Please register—seating limited.

Feeding, Fuelling, and Building the Foundations of Toronto: Sources for Exploring Historic Urban Metabolism Using harbour ledgers, the "Assembling a City" project reconstructs Toronto’s nineteenth-century urban metabolism, tracing fruit, coal, and stone flows linking city and hinterlands.

"Feeding, Fuelling, and Building the Foundations of Toronto: Sources for Exploring Historic Urban Metabolism" by Andrew Watson is the 8th and final post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

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Are You The Tyee’s New Biodiversity Reporter? | The Tyee We’re looking for a sharp journalist to join our team. Apply by Feb. 8.

The Tyee is hiring a reporter for a biodiversity beat! #journalism #journalismjobs

More info here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

It was a treat to interview Laura Govers, a seagrass and intertidal restoration wizard based at the University of Groningen. Dr. Govers visited @uvicenvi.bsky.social last spring.

My guest interview with @lauralgovers.bsky.social just dropped on @futureecologies.bsky.social today. It’s part of the Hyphaedelity series in which FE invites past interviewees to speak with someone whose work inspires.

Jeanine Rhemtulla is a co-founder of the Mountain Legacy Project and we stood together at Powerhouse Cliff for the first time doing repeat photography in 1996.

There was a lot going on all at once yesterday, including some strange network issues in EcoViz Studio, where my team works. I was putting out a lot of fires! By the time we got to the holiday celebration this photo summed it up!

Mountain Voices A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published. By Eric Higgs To celebrate International Mountain Day 2025 we are thrilled to share a new book, Mountain Voices...

A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published!
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Join me tonight at @uvic.ca for a conversation of climate, connection, and fighting for change.

🕖 7:00–9:30 p.m. PST (doors 6:30)
📍 University of Victoria

🔗 Event details & tickets: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic
🎥 Livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
@picscanada.bsky.social

Mountain Voices and Echoes from NiCHE's Archive Western Canada’s mountains emerge as dynamic landscapes of knowledge, danger, leisure, infrastructure, and change, illuminated through NiCHE’s diverse historical perspectives.

Today our editor, @gabtm.bsky.social, combed our archive for Mountain Voices and Echoes to help promote the latest collection in our @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment open-access book series.

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#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains

Join us for the #UVicENVI Colloquium on Nov 26, 11:30–12:30 in DTB B255.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.

Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

Do you appreciate that we take care of a large archive of research and writing that goes back nearly 20 years?

If so, help us keep the lights on, donate to our fundraising campaign. Still stuck at 60%! Can you help us move to 65%?

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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum

Still buzzing from the Mountain Voices launch event in Banff at the Whyte Museum on Friday. Thrilled to share the stage with Senator Karen Sorensen, Bill Snow, Ali Criscitiello, Leanne Allison and a dozen more contributors—mountain royalty! @mountainlegacy.bsky.social
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Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.

Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social

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It’s out and it’s beautiful. Mountain Voices featuring photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social went on sale Friday evening at our launch event at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff.

Embers Official Trailer After losing her home in the 2024 Jasper wildfire, aerial artist Sasha Galitzki is forced to reckon with catastrophic changes to her mountain home. Short documentary…

The MLP recently provided images for the short film Embers, which premiered this past week at the Banff Film and Book Festival!

This short animated video from the production shows the dramatic change in the Athabasca Glacier from 1917 to 2011:

tinyurl.com/EmberVideo

Trailer:
vimeo.com/1131446093

Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.

Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada

"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello

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We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

Very happy to report the first glimpse at the new identity for our research group—EcoVisualization Studio—which combines @mountainlegacy.bsky.social with CEDAR (Co-Lab for Ecological Design And Restoration). More soon!

My dream: The internet fills with AI kudzu and milfoil. Social media is choked out by machines babbling to each other. Humans will be forced back into analog spaces - especially radio and print - to share information, music and ideas. Serious newsrooms will build audience with a promise: Zero AI.

Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada Discover Canada’s mountains as you’ve never seen them before with gorgeous photography from the Mountain Legacy Project accompanied by gripping essays from mountaineers, artists, and mountain research...

Very happy to announce the book, Mountain Voices, will be published in early November by @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Fifty authors explore their love of Canadian mountains through interpreting photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Order early!

Canada Wildfire - Webinars and courses Our webinars feature leading experts discussing a range of topics related to wildfires. Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or simply interested in learning, our platform provides a space for d...

Jeanine Rhemtulla and I are presenting “The Mountain Legacy Project as a Platform for Understanding Fire the Canada Wildfire webinar series at 08:30 Friday Sept 12. Free to register. Please join us. www.canadawildfire.org/webinarsandc...

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All great suggestions but I feel your pain on volume of applications. Do you have threshold criteria—achievement and practical—that can filter the applications? This step can be undertaken by someone else without compromising the integrity of the process. This makes your job more tractable.

In a Mammoth Wildfire’s Remains, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

Very pleased work with Drs. Jeanine Rhemtulla and Lori Daniels and students on the 2024 Jasper wildfires to be featured in the New York Times today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

Big thanks to PhD student, Claire Wright, who managed the fieldwork, & Wildfire Canada, and Jasper National Park for great support. Great to work alongside UBC faculty Jeanine Rhemtulla & Lori Daniels. We were delighted to have artist/photographer Desirée Patterson and writer Jesse Winter join us.

Wrapped up a very successful field season with @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. We repeat high resolution oblique photographs in some case for the fourth time creating a sequence from 1915 to the present including before and after photos of the 2024 Jasper Wildfire Complex.

Black and white photograph of students in front of the rustic classroom building.

I had the pleasure of working with 16 fine students in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca and in our Restoration of Natural Systems Program. They delivered insights for the community on six research projects that key into priorities of the galianoconservancy.org

UVic Student Presentations | Galiano Conservancy You are cordially invited to join us at the Millard Learning Centre classroom on Saturday July 12, 2025, 4:00pm-5:30pm, for a public talk by UVic Environmental Studies and Restoration of […]

Heading to the Millard Learning Centre on Galiano Island to teach my annual “advanced principles and practices in ecological restoration” course. Ten days of good work with 16 @uvic.ca students culminating in presentations to the Galiano community! galianoconservancy.ca/event/uvic-s...