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Watersheds: The fundamental assessment unit for largescale aquatic habitat assessments.

Sometime in the early morning hours of July 31st (2024), the Chilcotin River was blocked by a massive landslide. The landside stretches about 500 m wide and extends for about 1.06 kilometres. The total area of the landslide is about 0.53 square kilometres (as measured by satellite imagery, details below). As of July 31st 2024 water continued to be impounded upstream of the landslide and the Chilcotin River has run dry downstream of the landslide.

Access the tool: https://mjbayly.com/lrs-bcl-bc

The following tool supports sighting of new or relocated Liquor Retail Stores (LRS). The BC LRS 1 kilometer buffer requirement is a regulatory measure implemented in British Columbia, Canada, to control the density and distribution of retail liquor stores. This policy aims to prevent an overconcentration of liquor outlets in any given area, promote public safety, and encourage responsible consumption of alcohol.

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, Dr. Eric Saczuk (BCIT/InDro Robotics) conducted a flight and application demo of the M350 RTK and DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise drones. The event was hosted by the Vancouver GIS User Group. 

Metal signposts, bolts, PVC pipe, epoxy, rock climbing anchors, and cable ties are the bread and butter of in-stream data logger systems. The goal is to create systems that are tough, waterproof, rust-resistant, safe, and reliable. The river will eventually eat and destroy everything, but how can we install sensors and dataloggers to get a little bit of life out of them? This blog post was put together to gather a list of resources for stream data logger installations. The primary focus here is on data loggers for stream temperature and water level (flow).

Review of Ocean Connect. New application developed by https://oceanconnect.ca/ CIOOS Pacific and the Hakai Institute - Launched in November 2023. Excited to work with it throughout 2024.

Howe Sound: submarine terminal moraine hidden in the ocean #rayshader #3DMaps #topobathy #gis #terrain

Starting to put together some basic tools and functions in a new Canada NHN (National Hydrographic Network) R-package for interprovincial stream network summaries (https://github.com/mattjbayly/canadaNHN…) #hydrology #RStats #Canada #GIS

Upstream extent of coastal spawning stream for Pacific salmon (Fraser & other large river systems excluded) [Data: BC-FISS].

ESSA Technologies Ltd. recently hosted a workshop on the CEMPRA Tool.