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Links
 The
Miistakis Institute works in collaboration with a number of other
organizations and initiatives in the Rocky Mountains. If you're
looking for information about this landscape, consult our The
Rockies web page. If you want to know more about the organizations
that work in or on it, we encourage you to check out our collaborators
below.
Government
Alberta
Environment
Alberta Environment manages the use of
Alberta's diverse landscapes to sustain a healthy environment,
a prosperous economy and strong communities.
Canadian
Biodiversity Information Network
CBIN is the Canadian node on the international
Clearing-house Mechanism (CHM) of the United Nations Convention
on Biological Diversity (UNCBD). This site contains biodiversity
information and data from across the country.
Central
Rockies Ecosystem Interagency Liaison Group
The Central Rockies Ecosystem Interagency
Liaison Group, with respect for the mandates of its member agencies,
will cooperate to ensure biodiversity is maximized in the Central
Rockies Ecosystem and the area is managed as a sustainable regional
landscape.
Ecological
Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN)
EMAN is made up of linked organizations
and individuals involved in ecological monitoring in Canada to
better detect, describe, and report on ecosystem changes. The
network is a cooperative partnership of federal, provincial and
municipal governments, academic institutions, aboriginal communities
and organizations, industry, environmental non-government organizations,
volunteer community groups, elementary and secondary schools and
other groups/individuals involved in ecological monitoring.
Federal
Geographic Data Committee, U.S. Geological Survey
The Federal Geographic Data Committee is
a 19 member interagency committee composed of representatives
from the Executive Office of the President, Cabinet-level and
independent agencies. The FGDC is developing the National Spatial
Data Infrastructure (NSDI) in cooperation with organizations from
State, local and tribal governments, the academic community, and
the private sector. The NSDI encompasses policies, standards,
and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and
share geographic data.
GeoConnections,
Natural Resources Canada
GeoConnections is a national partnership
initiative working to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
(CGDI), which will make Canada’s geospatial databases, tools
and services readily accessible on-line.
Glacier
National Park (MT)
Useful information about Park neighbours,
research, and resources.
National
Biological Information Infrastructure, U.S.G.S.
The National Biological Information Infrastructure
(NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased
access to data and information on the United States of America's
biological resources.
U.S
Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
The NRMSC conducts integrated, interdisciplinary
research in support of natural resource management in the Northern
Rocky Mountains.
Waterton
Lakes National Park
The park helps protect the unique and unusually
diverse physical, biological and cultural resources found in the
Crown of the Continent: one of the narrowest places in the Rocky
Mountains.
Academic
Faculty
of Environmental Design, University of Calgary
The Faculty of Environmental Design offers
an experiential learning environment that instructs students in
cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration and action.
Geomatics
Engineering, University of Calgary
The Department of Geomatics Engineering
(formerly Surveying Engineering) is involved in teaching and research
in geomatics technology. The Department offers B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Eng.
and Ph.D. degrees.
Kananaskis
Field Stations, University of Calgary
The mandate of the Kananaskis Field Stations
is to provide research and education facilities to the University
of Calgary faculties or institutes, other universities, government
agencies, private sector research, schools and other educational
groups with regards to ecosystem studies within the Canadian Rockies
and Foothills ecoregions.
MADGIC,
Mackimmie Library, University of Calgary
The University Map Library provides
access to approximately 200,000 map sheets and about 1 million
aerial photographs. We also have a small collection of reference
atlases.
School
of Environmental Studies, University of Montana
The University of Montana's Environmental
Studies Program integrates natural sciences, social sciences,
and humanities to create solutions to environmental problems nationally,
regionally and in Montana.
Wildlife
Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Montana
The Wildlife Spatial Analysis Lab uses
applied and basic research in physical geography, mathematics,
and landscape ecology to study habitat conditions and land-use
patterns at ecosystem and regional levels.
NGO
Canadian
Biosphere Reserve Association
CBRA is a non-profit association, incorporated
in 1997, to provide support and networking relationships that
help develop and maintain biosphere reserves throughout Canada.
Canadian
Parks and Wilderness Society - Calgary/Banff
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Edmonton
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - B.C.
CPAWS envisages a healthy ecosphere where
people experience and respect natural ecosystems. This is achieved
by working cooperatively with government, First Nations, business,
other organizations and individuals in a consensus-seeking manner,
wherever possible. CPAWS promotes awareness and understanding
of ecological principles and the inherent values of wilderness
through education, appreciation and experience and encourages
individual action to accomplish these goals.
East
Kootenay Environmental Association
The East Kootenay Environmental Society
is working to protect the diversity of wildlife habitats, the
wild lands, the air, the water and the quality of life of southeastern
British Columbia.
Montana
Wilderness Association
The MWA advocates the protection of Montana's
wilderness; information on the Flathead Winter Recreation Agreement.
Mountain
Equipment Co-op
Waterton
Lakes Biosphere Reserve
The reserve mobilizes government agencies,
industries, businesses and individuals needed to support economic
and environmental well-being. The biosphere reserve promotes public
awareness of resource management and environmental concerns.
Yellowstone
to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Combining science and stewardship, Y2Y
seeks to ensure that the world- renowned wilderness, wildlife,
native plants, and natural processes of the Yellowstone to Yukon
region continue to function as an interconnected web of life,
capable of supporting all of the natural and human communities
that reside within it, for now and for future generations.
Biosphere
Institute of the Bow Valley
The Biosphere Institute of the Bow
Valley is dedicated to enhancing understanding of ecological integrity
as it pertains to the Bow River watershed.
Castle
Crown Wilderness Coalition
The Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition's
goal is to establish, restore and protect the Castle Wilderness
as a viable wilderness within the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem.
Foundations
Alberta
Ecotrust
The Foundatin is a non-governmental fundraising
agency dedicated to supporting grassroots environmental projects
throughout Alberta.
Alberta
Real Estate Foundation
The Alberta Real Estate Foundation supports
real estate related initiatives that enhance the industry and
benefit the people of Alberta. The Foundation's revenues come
from the interest earned on public money deposited in real estate
brokers' pooled trust accounts.
Henry
P. Kendall Foundation
The Kendall Foundation is dedicated to
restoring and maintaining the ecological integrity of terrestrial,
aquatic and marine systems in the northeast and northwest regions
of North America. Its current program themes are centered on the
desire to integrate good science and local knowledge into environmental
decision-making, to build capacity for sustained protection of
natural resources, and to connect people and place by fostering
stewardship of those resources.
Wilburforce
Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation is dedicated to
protecting nature's richness and diversity through funding programs
that help preserve our remaining wild places. the Foundation awards
grants to nonprofit organizations that have programs operating
in Alaska, the Yellowstone to Yukon region, British Columbia,
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona or New Mexico.
Industry
Shell Canada Limited
The Southwest Alberta Montane Elk study is being carried out in the Waterton region of southwest Alberta through collaboration with Shell Canada, the Alberta government, and three universities.
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