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Did you know that there are 1,500 volcanoes in the world and only about 100 volcano observatories? The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010 left millions stranded and cost airlines an estimated €900 million.

I had a call this week with Todd Hunter, birder extraordinaire. He was telling me about the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, which has plans to monitor all the plants and critters on a 20km by 20km grid that covers the entire province. Todd’s job is to identify birds. Instead of going into the field, like…