Himalayan-Arctic Exchange Phase II: A Workshop to Transfer Methods of Community-Based Monitoring from Nunavut to Nepal

该奖项将于2012年2月在尼泊尔Tsum山谷支持一个方法和技术研讨会，该地区最近才向外国游客开放。该研讨会将汇集气候科学家、北极居民、加拿大克莱德河的因纽特人以及高海拔地区的居民、尼泊尔Tsum山谷的尼泊尔人，比较用于记录各自地区气候变化影响的方法和技术。本次研讨会建立在之前的一项探索性研究小额赠款的基础上，该赠款旨在通过传统知识体系比较阿拉斯加高纬度地区和尼泊尔高海拔地区的土著居民对气候变化的体验。这两个地区都有土著居民，他们的文化、社会组织和经济与这片土地紧密相连。通过探索比较这两个在文化和环境上看起来非常不同的地区的可能性，研究小组能够确定气候变化对土著人民的一些泛全球影响。讲习班的目标是分享北极土著社区使用的以社区为基础的研究和监测方法，以确定这些方法是否适合尼泊尔农村居民使用。世界自然基金会尼泊尔分会和Rinjan Shrestha博士在那里积极开展工作，建立健全的环境管理实践，以管理徒步旅行，减轻冰川退缩和气候变化的其他方面的影响。两名科学家和三名在社区方法方面有经验的北极土著居民将与Rinjan一起乘坐直升机从加德满都前往Tsum山谷，并在那里与当地居民会面，展示和讨论方法和相关设备。研究小组将探索这种方法在尼泊尔农村地区的应用方式（例如，电池充电、数据下载等），以及当地居民和像Rinjan这样的科学家认为需要优先监测的参数。北极土著参与者将能够讨论在实地使用这些装置的实际方面，并可以帮助Tsum Valley的居民识别和克服在该地区使用这些装置的重大障碍。在Tsum Valley研讨会之后，我们将在加德满都与Rinjan的同事会面，讨论Igliniit系统的其他应用潜力，以及尼泊尔与北极之间的其他潜在合作。

This award will support, in February 2012, a methods and technology workshop in the Tsum Valley of Nepal, a region only recently opened to foreign visitors. The workshop will bring climate scientists, Arctic peoples, Inuit of Clyde River Canada, together with high altitude peoples, Nepali of Tsum Valley Nepal, to compare methods and technologies that are being utilized to record the effects of climate change in their respective regions. This workshop builds on a previous Small Grant for Exploratory Research that sought to compare indigenous people's in high latitudes, Alaska, and high altitudes, Nepal, experiences of climate change through their traditional knowledge systems. Both regions have indigenous populations whose cultures, social organization, and economies are intimately tied to the landscape. By exploring the possibility of being able to compare these two seemingly very different regions, culturally and environmentally, the research team was able to identify some of the pan-global effects of climate change among indigenous peoples. The goal of the workshop is to share community-based research and monitoring approaches used in Arctic indigenous communities to determine their suitability for use by rural Nepalis. WWF-Nepal and Dr. Rinjan Shrestha are actively working there to establish sound environmental management practices to govern trekking and to mitigate impacts of glacial retreat and other aspects of climate change. Two scientists and three Arctic indigenous persons with experience in community-based approaches will travel with Rinjan by helicopter from Kathmandu to the Tsum Valley and spend a week there meeting with local residents and demonstrating and discussing methods and associated equipment. The research team will explore the ways in which this approach can be used in rural Nepal (e.g., battery charging, data downloading, etc.), and the parameters that local residents and scientists such as Rinjan see as the priorities for monitoring. The Arctic indigenous participants will be able to discuss practical aspects of the use of the units in the field, and can help Tsum Valley residents identify and overcome significant obstacles to their use in the area. Following the Tsum Valley workshop, we will meet with Rinjan's colleagues in Kathmandu to discuss the potential for other applications of the Igliniit system, as well as other potential collaborations between Nepal and the Arctic.