Eric Higgs
@ehiggs.bsky.social
Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, Author of Nature By Design and director of the Mountain Legacy Project.
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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
🕖 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
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
🕖 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
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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.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/19/m...
#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains
niche-canada.org/2025/11/19/m...
#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/19/m...
#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains
niche-canada.org/2025/11/19/m...
#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains
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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.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.
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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
If so, help us keep the lights on, donate to our fundraising campaign. Still stuck at 60%! Can you help us move to 65%?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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%?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum
If so, help us keep the lights on, donate to our fundraising campaign. Still stuck at 60%! Can you help us move to 65%?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#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
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social
@ucalgarypress.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
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
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.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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.
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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
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
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…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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
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
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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
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
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.
niche-canada.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
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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
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
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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
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!
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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!
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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.
Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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.
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!
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...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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!
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...
@mountainlegacy.bsky.social
@mountainlegacy.bsky.social
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...
www.canadawildfire.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
@mountainlegacy.bsky.social
@mountainlegacy.bsky.social
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...
In a Mammoth Wildfire’s Remains, Clues to Tame Future Blazes
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
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.
August 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
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
July 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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
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...
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 […]
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July 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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...
After some technical hiccups over the last few months the @mountainlegacy.bsky.social Stories series is back! Please check out the latest post by Alia Johnson on connecting work with repeat photography to ecological design. mountainlegacy.ca/2025/06/30/o...
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On Historical Photographs, Regenerative Ecological Design, and the Value of Collaboration
By Alia Johnson
Beyond being a powerful tool for understanding large-scale landscape change over time, historical photographs provide profound insights as a decision-making tool for the designe...
mountainlegacy.ca
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
After some technical hiccups over the last few months the @mountainlegacy.bsky.social Stories series is back! Please check out the latest post by Alia Johnson on connecting work with repeat photography to ecological design. mountainlegacy.ca/2025/06/30/o...
Pls subscribe! mountainlegacy.ca/news/
Pls subscribe! mountainlegacy.ca/news/
Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca
Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology
June 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca
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Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology
June 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology
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This paper is exactly what we need!! Congratulations team!
A preprint of our paper on #CausalInference in #Ecology - Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - led by Hannah Correia is now up as a preprint ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🧪🌍
This came from a GREAT workshop last year, and gives a solid framework and howto
This came from a GREAT workshop last year, and gives a solid framework and howto
June 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This paper is exactly what we need!! Congratulations team!
Very proud of newly-minted PhD, Dr. James Tricker. His dissertation helped develop new tools for classifying, analyzing, and geo-referencing oblique images. His work focused on a critical look at historical range of variability in light of emergent ecological novelty in Jasper National Park.
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very proud of newly-minted PhD, Dr. James Tricker. His dissertation helped develop new tools for classifying, analyzing, and geo-referencing oblique images. His work focused on a critical look at historical range of variability in light of emergent ecological novelty in Jasper National Park.
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🚨Just learned that the next book in our @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgary.bsky.social, edited by @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, will drop in November 🚨
Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project…
#envhist
@ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social
Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project…
#envhist
@ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨Just learned that the next book in our @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgary.bsky.social, edited by @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, will drop in November 🚨
Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project…
#envhist
@ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social
Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project…
#envhist
@ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social
Very proud of PhD student, Alia Johnson, who was awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This makes a perfect streak for the five Canadian PhD students working with me now (int’l students not eligible for this award).
May 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Very proud of PhD student, Alia Johnson, who was awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This makes a perfect streak for the five Canadian PhD students working with me now (int’l students not eligible for this award).