1. A quick overview

2. Third Meeting November 28-30, 2006
CARMA Network
(Circum-Arctic Rangifer
Monitoring & Assessment
Network)
Network
Third Meeting
November 28-30, 2006

3. CARMA
Rationale
Mission
History
Structure
Activities
Goals

5. New and more difficult challenges: High uncertainty
Global Process
Regional decision making
Local well being
New and more difficult challenges:
High uncertainty
Rapid directional change
Increased complexity
Considerable heterogeneity

6. The Mission of CARMA
“To monitor and assess the impacts of global change on the Human-Rangifer System across the Arctic through cooperation, both geographically and across disciplines.”

7. The Arctic Council directed CAFF to “identify elements of a program to monitor circumpolar biodiversity” and to “assess the effects of climate change on Arctic ecosystems”.

8. 1999 -“The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems” Workshop

9. Its “Research Plan” Anticipating and responding to change
Understanding the resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems
Developing new methods for comparative studies
Facilitating communication among players
Organizing into a network
Reframing the paradigm to include hunters and herders

10. Background:
February, 2000:
CAFF responds to Arctic Council recommendation by establishing the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program

11. CARMA official Launch, Vancouver Oct 31 – Nov 1 2004
Representatives from Russia, Finland, Norway, Greenland, Canada, and the U.S. at the official launch of CARMA Network

12. Second Meeting of the CARMA Network Nov 15-16
Linked with IPY
Identified research questions:
What is the resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems to global change?
What are the vulnerabilities of these systems?
Organized into focus areas
Initiated funding proposal planning

13. Three sources of information…
Remote sensing
understandin ghow to make this happen is in its nacsent stages of development. Mick Fergonson has made some valuable contrituions. More work is needed.
Field studies
Local knowledge

14. Where do we want to be one year from now?
Protocols for monitoring established
Monitoring data collection in full swing
Co-management boards engaged in the process and their involvement well defined
Sub-questions for research well defined
Funding in place

15. Where do we want to be at the end of IPY (March 2009)?
Strong arctic network established
Intensive monitoring completed
Dataset from different sources types compiled
Decision-support tools for co-managers developed and pre-tested.

16. Preparing for change