ska made it easier to present a united front. “We’ve just let the community take the lead,” says Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, executive director of CPAWS-Saskatchewan. “If we continue to do that, and not worry how we as organizations are going to take credit for it, or capitalize on it, I think we’re much more likely to succeed.” The Saskatchewan working group is primarily focused on creating new pro- tected areas to preserve the region’s intact ecosystems and fast-tracking efforts to protect species at risk, particularly endan- gered woodland caribou. To determine the size and location of protected areas in the province and throughout Canada’s CANADA U.S.A. a t a h u t o S w e h c cc tt aa v kk s w s aa a i n S R M A N I T O B A S A S K AT C H E W A N R i v n e r a R i v n e r a a s x X xxx N a k S w r RR e n ii n a vv e er h boreal forest, the agreement’s planners study each region’s natural features and focus on protecting large, intact areas known as ecological benchmarks. Largely free from industrial disturbances, these areas have all the hallmarks of healthy landscapes — including all the wildlife species that historically existed there as well as the ability to withstand natural disturbances such as forest fires — and act as reference sites to help planners understand how the land responds to industrial activity. The provincial government had already protected more than 177,000 hectares to the northwest of the Pasquia-Porcupine Forest Management Area and delta, around Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Lake, but the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement’s pro- posal would encompass that and more than double the protected area to almost MAPS: XXXXX XXXXXXXX/CAN XXX Xxxx Xxxxxxxx (above) hopes the CBFA can help protect the delta. Xxxxxxxx (left, in black hat) and Saskatchewan MLA Xxxx Xxxxxxxx point to a map as Xxxxxxxxxxxx’x Xxxx 470,000 hectares, covering the upland portions of the delta’s western side and part of the Mossy River watershed that flows into it (see map). Beyond creating new protected land outside of the forest management area, the agreement’s pro- posed plan would also prohibit log- The delta’s one million hectares of shallow lakes, marshes and forest form one of Canada’s most biologically diverse habitats. ging on lands where woodland caribou are concentrated, and protect buffer zones around those areas to increase connectivity for wildlife. “When the science showed the delta as the spot we should be protect- ing, my eyes just lit up,” says Xxxxxxxxx, who describes his first...
ska. The SKA is an ESFRI Landmark project under development now and expected to be generating scientifically useful data products at scale by the late 2020s. It will be the world’s largest Radio Observatory, supporting a large community of individual users (>1000) across hundreds of institutes, working on (eventually) thousands of unique astronomy projects. SKA represents a great leap in the scale of data products compared to the rates at which historical facilities have generated data, and so even though the vast majority of the data processing needed to generate science-ready data products will take place within the confines of the SKA Observatory, using dedicated hardware, the user interaction with data products – i.e. the scientific analysis of the observatory data products, will need to take place within a platform that connects user workflows with relevant data products and compute services. However, although the scale of SKA data products generated will be a new challenge in the astronomy arena (comparable in data rate only with HL-LHC, but with much larger file sizes), the scope of user interactions needed can be well exercised by considering existing astronomy/ astronomer work flows on current facilities, and so we now consider examples that can be used for testing the functionality of a SAP.
