ESSA studying the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples
ESSA has recently been awarded a contract with the World Bank to assess the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples in the Asia-Pacific Region. Together with our partners the International...
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River Bathymetry Toolkit (RBT) Version 3.2.8 Released
Version 3.2.8 of the River Bathymetry Toolkit is now available for download. The RBT supports ArcGIS 10 and includes updates to existing tools, as well as the addition of several new tools and methods.
View ArticleESSA hosts webinar – Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Canadian...
On Tuesday, November 20, 2012, ESSA hosted a free webinar “Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Canadian Water Resource Management” with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the...
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Happy Holidays from ESSA!
Best of the Holiday season to our excellent clients, associates, friends and colleagues! In case you missed it, on Friday December 7th 2012, some of ESSA’s future generation were treated to a pleasant...
View ArticleNew Forest Vegetation (FVS) Tools
ESSA is just completing a two year project in partnership with the US Forest Service, allowing all geographic variants of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to be integrated more closely with other...
View ArticleESSA welcomes new staff!
ESSA is pleased to welcome three new additions to our growing staff! Last fall we were joined by Erica Olson, a Systems Ecologist in our Vancouver office. Erica has a considerable range of experience,...
View ArticleWorkshops on R and QGIS hosted by ESSA staff at SNVB annual meeting
http://www.thesnvb.org/workshops-2013-r.html http://www.thesnvb.org/workshops-2013-quantum.html
View ArticlePlenary talk on cumulative effects by ESSA’s Lorne Greig at the SNVB meeting
http://www.thesnvb.org/plenary-2013.html
View ArticleFrom Sea to Sky: Assessing cumulative effects across Pacific Northwest...
The Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology is holding their annual meeting, and it is being organized by Darcy Pickard (ESSA), the Northern Vice President of the SNVB. The meeting will be held...
View ArticleESSA welcomes Jimena Eyzaguirre, Senior Climate Change Specialist
ESSA is pleased to welcome Jimena Eyzaguirre, Senior Climate Change Specialist and newest member of ESSA’s climate change adaptation team. Jimena brings with her over 10 years of Canadian and...
View ArticleEnhancing climate resilience of Subdivision and Development Servicing (SDS)...
ESSA partnered with Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. and Deborah Curran and Company to develop a new SDS bylaw model for the Columbia Basin Trust and partner communities. This model is designed to...
View ArticleEuropean Fire Ants in the News
With colleagues at the SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management, ESSA recently completed a study for the BC Ministry of Environment, to create a framework for the ecological and economic...
View ArticleCCME – Tools for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Watersheds
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment has recently released a report entitled “Tools for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Watersheds” which was prepared by ESSA in...
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The Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) contracted ESSA Technologies Ltd. to undertake, with the guidance with a Technical Advisory Committee of Skeena regional experts, an evaluation of the extent and...
View ArticleNew publication: Insight into Enabling Adaptive Management
The online journal Ecology and Society has just published a paper authored by ESSA discussing factors that enable good adaptive management: Greig, L. A., D. R. Marmorek, C. Murray and D. C. E....
View ArticleNew publication on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management
IFC Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) contracted ESSA Technologies...
View ArticleDismantling of Fishery Library ‘Like a Book Burning,’ Say Scientists
The Harper government has dismantled one of the world’s top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy...
View ArticleESSA Completes Independent Review: Impacts of Run-of-River Power Projects on...
Pacific Salmon Foundation releases report on potential effects of run of river hydro projects on salmonid species. “Impacts Possible, but More Study and Data Needed to Confirm” VANCOUVER: The Pacific...
View ArticleCourt finds ‘enormous systemic problem’ in enforcement of Species at Risk Act
OTTAWA – A Federal Court judge has ruled that the environment minister and the fisheries minister both broke the law by failing to enforce the Species at Risk Act. In a case covering four species that...
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