NIK Yukon to Yakutia

该奖项支持将于2014年8月在俄罗斯萨哈共和国扎伊甘斯克举办的一个小型讲习班，作为网络或土著知识(NIK)的一部分。Nik是育空河部落间分水岭理事会的一个项目，该项目正在阿拉斯加和加拿大、亚马逊和尼罗河的育空河上建立一个由分水岭用户、管理者、科学家、社区学者和知识持有者组成的全球网络。这次研讨会将把尼克介绍给西伯利亚的雅库特人和埃文克人，以带来莱纳河流域，这是西伯利亚为北冰洋提供淡水的三条河流之一，也是最大的河流，其分水岭完全在俄罗斯。莱纳河它是世界上第11条最长的河流，拥有为北冰洋提供淡水的第9大分水岭。Nik的科学家正在提供一种机制，让当地人可以全年监测全球分水岭，这是野外科学家不可能做到的，因为大多数人只能在夏季访问他们的研究地点几周。Nik将对当地人进行科学方法培训，以监测勒纳河流域的健康和生产。当地监测将提供世界上最大的流域之一的健康和生产数据，这些信息对于了解北冰洋生态系统及其正在发生的变化至关重要。

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.