HR: 1340h
AN: A13B-0119    [Abstracts]
TI: Shared Knowledge for Addressing Impacts of Land Use Transitions on Reindeer Husbandry in Northern Russia
AU: * Maynard, N
EM: nancy.g.maynard@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/GSFC Code 900, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Yurchak, B
EM: byurchak@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center (GEST), NASA/GSFC Code 900, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Sleptsov, Y
EM: seva_may@mail.ru
AF: Union of Reindeer Herders of Sakha Republic, 7 Khabarov Street, Apt. 48, Yakutsk, 677000 Russian Federation
AU: Turi, J M
EM: Johan.M.Turi@reindeerworld.org
AF: Association of World Reindeer Herders, Gronnegata 23, P.O. Box 508, Tromso, N-9001 Norway
AB: Reindeer husbandry in Northern Russia is an economic activity with a special cultural dimension of utmost importance to the indigenous peoples. Climate changes with warmer temperatures are creating significant problems now in the Arctic for the reindeer herds. These climate factors, industrial development, and the recent transition of Russia to a market economy have resulted in a nearly complete disruption of any system of supply of goods and services and health care to indigenous peoples. In turn, this has caused rapidly deteriorating health and living conditions in the indigenous reindeer herder communities. To try to address some of these issues, a NASA-reindeer herder partnership, called Reindeer Mapper, has been initiated which is establishing a system to bring indigenous traditional and local knowledge together with scientific and engineering knowledge, remote sensing and information technologies to create a more powerful information base for addressing these environmental, climate, industrial, political, and business problems. Preliminary results from the Reindeer Mapper pilot project will be presented including a special information-sharing communications system for the Reindeer Mapper project (a private intranet system), several NASA data sets useful to the herders including SAR and Landsat imagery, local knowledge of herd distributions, ground-based data, and weather observations. Results will also be presented from the first NASA-reindeer herder science and indigenous knowledge summer camp for children of reindeer herders from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
DE: 9315 Arctic region
DE: 0933 Remote sensing
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting