Honouring the Graduates of the 2015 Environmental Monitoring Technician Training Program Fifteen Aboriginal trainees from eight First Nation and Métis communities successfully completed the five-week Environmental Monitoring Technician Program Pilot co-funded by AEMERA and Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF). The group celebrated their program completion with a graduation ceremony at AITF auditorium on Monday, […]
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MEDIA RELEASE: New monitoring program helps protect Alberta’s environment while creating opportunities for indigenous peoples
Graduates of a new Aboriginal-focused training program are helping to improve Alberta’s environmental monitoring network while enhancing their skills, leadership capabilities and employment opportunities. Fifteen students from eight First Nation and Métis communities from across the oil sands region in northeastern Alberta completed five weeks of courses focused on safety, surface water quality monitoring and […]
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MEDIA RELEASE: Online report highlights environmental monitoring in Alberta’s oil sands region
Working together with monitoring organizations and communities in Alberta’s oil sands region, the Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency (AEMERA) has launched an electronic community report featuring information and findings related to environmental monitoring programs in the oil sands. “Working with communities, industry, scientists and monitoring organizations in the oil sands region, we are […]
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Oil Sands Monitoring Community Report
You have questions about the environment in the oil sands region…and we’re working to find the answers. The Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency (AEMERA) is the arm’s length provincial agency created to measure, assess and inform the public on the condition of Alberta’s environment. Our scientists and experts are transforming and improving how […]
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Exploring Community Approaches to Environmental Monitoring
Community-based monitoring is a relatively new term and can have a variety of interpretations.
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Home is where the heart is
In particular, we are honoured to recognize the dignitaries who join us that day. First Nations and Métis elders and leaders from across the province Mike Beaver, AEMERA board member and Elder of the Bigstone Cree Nation; Chief Tony Alexis from Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, and Grand Chief of Treaty 6 Nakota Sioux Nation; Harley Bastien, Elder of […]
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Pilot program trains Aboriginal students from oil sands area
As AEMERA continues to move forward and establish itself as the provincial monitoring agency responsible for measuring, assessing and informing the public on the condition of Alberta’s environment, engaging with Aboriginal stakeholders to find meaningful ways to braid Traditional Ecological Knowledge into regional monitoring, has become a clear priority. After listening and spending time with […]
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Aboriginal students kick off environmental training pilot
As AEMERA continues to move forward and establish itself as the provincial monitoring agency responsible for measuring, assessing and informing the public on the condition of Alberta’s environment, engaging with Aboriginal stakeholders to find meaningful ways to braid Traditional Ecological Knowledge into regional monitoring, has become a clear priority.
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