Monitoring of species to help inform policies and enforce sustainable limits on traditional hunting, trapping, whaling and fishing, etc. in cold regions to ensure environmental and ecological protection while maintaining important cultural practices. Identification of unique regional characteristics in cold regions for high value economic exploitation (e.g. endemic species, beautiful scenery, natural resources etc.) to support communities and their sustainable development. (Sources: Arctic Health [11], HRCF [12], ICIMOD [8], SDWG [13], AMAP [14], CAFF [6]) Public Health Cold region populations often have lower levels of health compared to wider populations, and have less access to health services than in other regions. Earth observations related to health include monitoring environmental health indicators such as pollution, water quality and food contaminants, and can inform improved access to health services for remote and isolated communities. Specific Earth observation needs and requirements for health in cold regions include: Monitoring of toxic substances, pollutants and contaminants in cold regions to which humans may be harmfully exposed, including in food sources, water sources, atmosphere and the environment generally. Land surveys to determine current best access to health services for remote and isolated communities, and inform efforts to improve accessibility. Monitoring of vector species in cold regions which carry parasites/diseases with potential harmful health effects, particularly vector species which carry new, previously absent parasites and diseases to cold regions. (Sources: Arctic Health [11], ICIMOD [8], SDWG [13]) Agriculture, Fisheries, Hunting & Food Due to the harshness of the environment and climate, opportunities for agriculture in cold regions are often limited. Earth observations can help identify opportunities to improve production to better meet the food needs of cold region populations, increase economic output, and help meet the growing demands for food globally. Hunting and fishing, for food production and other goods, are key activities in cold regions. Earth observations can help inform policies and actions to ensure sustainable yields from hunting and fishing, while minimizing environmental and ecological damage. Specific Earth observation needs and requirements for agriculture, fisheries, hunting and food in cold regions include:
2.2 Advocate and support incorporation of different research infrastructure catalogues on cold regions (e.g. INTERACT, UArctic). 1 2 2 INTERACT GCW Milestone 1: Cold regions related infrastructure catalogue hosts contacted (III2017) Milestone 2: Training/webinar for technical support (III2018) Deliverable: Summary of the development (XII2019) 2.3 Interoperability of GEOCRI with the GCI (resources registration and brokering, Community portal development, etc.) 1 2 CNR (S.N.) 2.4 Promote a dialogue to realize connection along longitudinal/latitudinal transect on specific items (e.g. tall towers for ABL, flux measurements) 2 2 2 CNR 2.5 Consolidating operational users' needs and information gaps to support development of future Arctic infrastructure (e.g. ESA Polaris and EU PolarNet). 2 2 2 ESA EOP? EU-PolarNet INTERACT Others? Milestone: Analysis of existing and ongoing consultations on user needs and information gaps (III 2018) Deliverable :Summary of the identified needs and gaps and action plan of the support process. (III2019) Task 3. Training and Capacity Building Task Team: Hannele Savela, Julie Friddell, Weicai Wang, Massimo Menenti, other Co-leads… Activity 3.1 Increase awareness of possibilities related to GEOCRI, GCI and GEOSS Data-CORE. 1 1 2 Co-leads team? Milestones: Ongoing process 2017-2019. Deliverables: Promotional material, campaigns etc. in 2017-2019. 3.2 Arrange practical training on incorporating data to GCI and GEOSS Data-CORE 2 2 2 Co-leads team? Milestone: Webinar training on how to tag data to GEOSS and/or register it to GCI (XII2017, XII2018, XII2019).
3.3 Arrange training to build capacity and educate new generation of researches on cold regions (e.g. via UArctic network and APECS) 3 2 2 INTERACT CSIC TPE Task 4. User Engagement and Communication Task Team: Hannele Savela, Yubao Qiu, Co-leads? Activity 4.1Maintain regular communications with all GEOCRI participants, GEO secretariat and other members of GEO community with updates on activities. Help to forge synergies and collaborations between GEOCRI 1 1 2 INTERACT DBAR Co-leads team Milestone: GEOCRI meetings (on-line or physical Deliverable: Minutes of the meetings (XII2017-2019). 4.2 Engage with current non-GEO member cold region countries to explore potential for membership – notably Bhutan, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and others. Engage existing members and participating organizations to participate in GEOCRI activities more actively. 1 3 2 Co-leads? Milestone: Country representatives and potential new contributors contacted to initiate discussions (VI2017). 4.3 Look to engage new organizations working in cold regions with GEOCRI and GEO. 1 2 2 INTERACT Co-leads team? Milestone: Campaign to invite new contributors to GEOCRI conducted (VI2017). Deliverable: Promotional material (XII2019) 4.4 Liaise with other GEO activities to find potential synergies and map potential overlaps with them. 1 2 2 INTERACT Co-leads team? Mileston1e: Related GEO activities contacted for discussions (XII 2017). Milestone2: Potential synergies and overlaps identified (VI2019). Milestone3: Map of potential synergies and overlaps with an action plan of possible collaboration (XII2019).
GEOCRI and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 The GEOCRI covers plenty of the disasters, for example, avalanche, GLOF, flood, drought, extremely low temperature disaster, etc., that are the main influence to human kind. To support the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction that’s adopted at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, GEOCRI communities could work with other initiatives to provide observations data and essential knowledge for mitigation and adaption. Further actions to meet the aim of the Sendai Framework are needed. Partners The following table lists the current GEOCRI Partners, whose status is expressed in relation to levels of involvement either as a contributor or an observer. The contributor are mainly those who could representation the national, regional or international program and projects, and provide contribution to the GEOCRI implementation directly. While, the observers are those who are kept informing, and providing guidance, resource and funder agency, such as governmental bodies, national and private foundation, and etc. Contributors NO Name Organization/Institute Contact 1 Allan Howard AAFC Canada AAFC 2 David Hik University of Alberta Canada 3 Likun Ai Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research China TPE 4 Weicai Wang Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research China TPE 5 Chu Duo n/a China 6 Cunde Xiao China Metrological Administrator China CMA 7 Jun She Denish Metrological Institute Denmark DMI 8 Hanna K. Lappalainen University of Helsinki, Finnish Meteorological Institute Finland PEEX 9 Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki Finland PEEX 10 Rüdiger Gerdes AWI Germany 11 Manfred Gottwald DLR Germany 12 Stefan Hendricks AWI Germany 13 Andreas Herber AWI Germany (ordered)
14 Michael Krautblatter University of Bonn Germany 15 Michael Nyenhuis DLR Germany 16 Thomas Soltwedel AWI Germany 19 Tom Barry Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Iceland CAFF 20 Samjwal Bajracharya ICIMOD ICIMOD 21 Basanta Shrestha ICIMOD ICIMOD 22 Sandip Oza ISRO-SAC India 23 Mihir Dash n/a India 24 Angelo Viola Institute of Atrmospheric Science and Climate Italy CNR IADC 25 Eugenio Sansosti Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of Enmvironment (IREA-CNR) Italy CNR 26 Stefano Nativi Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) Italy CNR 27 Francesca Sprovieri Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) Italy CNR 28 Ruggero Casacchia CNR Italy 29 Eugenio Sansosti CNR Italy 30 Takeshi Kawano JAMSTEC Japan 31 Tetsuo Ohata JAMSTEC Japan 32 Akiko Yamada JAMSTEC Japan 33 Bob Su University of Twente Netherland 34 Dag Anders Moldestad Norway Space Centre Norway NSC 35 Einar-Arne Herland Norway Space Centre Norway NSC 36 Lars-Anders Breivik Norwegian Meteorological Institute Norway MET Norway 37 Rune Solberg Norwegian Computing Centre Norway EC
C-DAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing CliC Climate and Cryosphere COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs CMA China Metrological Administrator CNR-IIA Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research CSIC Spanish National Research Council DRAGON ESA – NRSCC Program / Hydrology and Cryosphere Theme DMI Danish Metrological Institute EC-PHORS WMO Executive Council Panel of Experts on Polar and High Mountain Observations, Research and Services EPPR Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response, AC Working Group ESA European Space Agency FIES Food Insecurity Experience Scale GCI GEOSS Common Infrastructure GCW Global Cryosphere Watch GECO GEO Global Ecosystem Initiative GEO Group on Earth Observations GEO DAB GEO Discovery and Access Broker GEOBON GEO Biodiversity Observation Network GEOCRI GEO Cold Regions Initiative GEO-DARMA GEO Data Access for Risk Management GEOGLAM GEO Global Argicultural Monitoring Initiative GEOGLOWS GEO Global Water Sustainability GEO-GNOME GEO Global Network for Observation and Information in Mountain Environments GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems GEOSS Data-CORE GEOSS Data Collection of Open Resources for Everyone GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland GFOI GEO Global Forest Observations Initiative GINR Greenland Institute of Natural Resources GLISN Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network GLMS Glacier Lake Monitoring System GLOF Glacial Lake Outburst Flood GMOS Global Mercury Observation System GSNL GEO Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories GTN-P Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost H2020 Horizon 2020 HKKH Hindu Kush –Karakoram– Himalayas HRCF Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation IASC International Arctic Science Committee ICARP III The Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning ICIMOD International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development INTERACT International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic