Symposium Program

1:00pm - 1:20pm

Severe droughts are putting Canadian peatland carbon stocks at risk: a remote sensing analysis of fire selectivity and behavior in peatlands over the extreme 2023 fire season

Dr. N. Pelletier¹, Dr. D. Thompson², N. Pontone¹, L. Guindon², Dr. K. Millard¹

¹Carleton University, Canada; ²Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada

1:20pm - 1:40pm

Monitoring Post-Wildland Fire Vegetation Regeneration using Lidar and Spectral Indices in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

J. F. Van Gaalen, Dr. C. Hopkinson, J. Aspinall, B. Pearse, Dr. L. Chasmer

University of Lethbridge, Canada

1:40pm - 2:00pm

Distribution of Combustible Fuels in Canada’s Iconic Montane National Parks under Variable Management and Disturbance Conditions using Airborne Lidar and the arboSense Fuels Tool

Dr. L. E. Chasmer¹, T. Skretting¹, Dr. C. Shang², O. Tsui², S. Parsian¹, Dr. Z. Xi³, E. A. Jones¹, Dr. A. Dean², Dr. C. Watson⁴, J. Park⁵, Dr. P. James⁶, Dr. J. Boucher⁷, C. Hopkinson¹

¹University of Lethbridge, Canada; ²Hatfield Consultants; ³Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre; ⁴Parks Canada, Jasper National Park; ⁵Parks Canada, Banff National Park; ⁶Daniels Faculty – Forestry, University of Toronto; ⁷Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre

2:00pm - 2:20pm

In Situ Modeling of Freezing/Melting Point Depression Across Diverse Canadian Ecosystems: An Analysis of Soil Freezing Characteristics Using Permittivity and Temperature Measurements

H. Salmabadi^1,2, A. Berg³, A. Roy^1,2

¹Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada; ²Centre d’Études Nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Quebec, Canada; ³Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Remote sensing of vegetation with small drones over a bog and its surrounding land

Dr. S. Leblanc, Dr. H. P. White

Natural Resources Canada