Workshop: Connecting Alaska Native Communities and U.S. Northwest Coastal Tribes to the Yakut and Evenk Peoples of the Sakha Republic through WIN.

该奖项将支持一系列研讨会，重点是将美国西北沿海部落和阿拉斯加土著社区的水土著网络（WIN）与居住在俄罗斯萨哈共和国沿勒拿河的雅库特人和埃文克人联系起来。勒拿河是世界上第11长的河流，拥有第9大分水岭，并为北冰洋提供淡水。WIN的科学家们正在创建一个项目，通过这个项目，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，因为大多数科学家只能在夏季访问他们的研究地点几个星期。该组织将对当地人员进行科学方法培训，以监测勒拿河流域的健康和生产情况。本地监测将提供一个世界上的数据？美国最大的流域；这是了解北冰洋生态系统及其变化的关键信息。通过与俄勒冈健康与科学大学海岸边缘观测与预测科学技术中心（CMOP）和伍兹霍尔研究中心的科学家合作，WIN将在雅库特和埃文克人民中组织讲习班，将科学家和土著社区聚集在一起，探讨影响土著人民的问题。在世界各地传播美国的知识和文化？年代的河流。讲习班将包括下列方面的培训：流域地理信息系统制图、数字数据库的建立和存档、录象记录、照片记录、水质取样协议和技术、传统知识的叙述和记录。工作坊亦会让网络团队有机会与本地及区域领导人和政府代表会面，以获得他们对本地参与网络活动的支持。

This award will support a series of workshops focused on connecting the Water Indigenous Network (WIN) of the US North West Coastal Tribes and Alaska Native communities with the Yakut and Evenk Peoples who reside in the Sakha Republic of Russia along the Lena River. The Lena River is the 11th longest river in the world, has the 9th largest watershed, and provides fresh water to the Arctic Ocean. WIN scientists are creating a program by which global watersheds can be monitored year round by local people, something not possible by field scientists because most can only visit their research sites in the summer season for a few weeks. WIN will train local people in scientific methodologies for monitoring the health and production of the Lena River Watershed. Local monitoring will provide data on one of the world?s largest watersheds; information critical to understanding the Arctic Ocean ecosystem and how it is changing. In collaboration with scientists from Oregon Health and Science Universities Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) and the Woods Hole Research Center, with this award WIN will organize workshops among the Yakut and Evenk Peoples to bring scientists and indigenous communities together to explore issues that affect indigenous people?s knowledge and culture along the world?s rivers. The workshops will include training in GIS Mapping of watersheds, digital database construction and archiving, video documentation, photo documentation, water quality sampling protocols and techniques, and traditional knowledge story telling and documentation. The workshops will also give the WIN team the opportunity to meet with local and regional leaders and government representatives to gain their support for local participation in network activities.