NIK Yukon to Yakutia

该奖项支持将于2014年8月在俄罗斯萨哈共和国的Zhaigansk举行的小型研讨会，作为土著知识网络（NIK）的一部分。NIK是育空地区河流部落间流域理事会的一个项目，该项目正在阿拉斯加和加拿大的育空地区、亚马逊河和尼罗河流域建立一个由流域用户、管理人员、科学家、社区学者和知识持有者组成的全球网络。该研讨会将向西伯利亚的雅库特人和埃文克人介绍NIK，以使西伯利亚的三条河流之一的勒拿河流域为北冰洋提供淡水，是最大的河流，其流域完全在俄罗斯。勒拿河是世界上第11长的河流，拥有第9大流域，为北冰洋提供淡水。 NIK的科学家们正在提供一种机制，通过这种机制，当地人可以全年监测全球流域，这是野外科学家无法做到的，大多数人只能在夏季访问他们的研究地点几周。 NIK将培训当地人掌握监测Lena河流域健康和生产的科学方法。 当地监测将提供关于世界上最大的流域之一的健康和生产的数据，这是了解北冰洋生态系统及其变化的关键信息。

This award supports a small workshop to be held in Zhaigansk, Sakha Republic, Russia, in August 2014 as part of the Network or Indigenous Knowledge (NIK). NIK is a project by the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council that is building a global network of watershed users, managers, scientists, community scholars and knowledge holders on the Yukon in both Alaska and Canada, the Amazon, and the Nile. This workshop would introduce NIK to the Yakut and Evenk people of Siberia in order to bring the Lena River Basin, one of the 3 rivers in Siberia that contributes fresh water to the Arctic Ocean and is the largest river whose watershed is entirely in Russia. The Lena River It is the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed that provides fresh water to the Arctic Ocean. NIK scientists are providing a mechanism by which global watersheds can be monitored year round by local people, something not possible by field scientists, most who can only visit their research sites in the summer season for a few weeks. NIK will train local people in scientific methodologies for monitoring the health and production of the Lena River Watershed. Local monitoring will provide data on the health and production of one of the worlds largest watersheds, information critical to understanding the Arctic Ocean ecosystem and how it is changing.