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Climate change in Mongolia: Mongolian Government holds special meeting in Gobi desert
ULAN BATOR, August 29 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolian government Friday held a full cabinet meeting in the sandy valley of "Gashuunii Hooloi" of Bayandalai county of South Gobi province, about 670 km away from Ulan-Bator.
The valley was chosen specifically for the meeting as it has been very much affected by desertification. What are now barren stretches of sand have been arable lands only 5 years ago.
Batbold Sukhbaatar, Mongolia's prime minister, said, "Mongolia is feeling the impact of the global climate change. Global warming is observed in Mongolia more than most of other regions in the world. Between 2009-2010, our country was hit by the harshest winter in decades and lost 20 percent of our livestock animals."
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/xinhua/2010-08-29/content_780368.html
New Austrian climate maps for 1971-2000
Climate being in constant flux, availability of higher resolved digital elevation models and further development of gridding methods gave reasons for updating the most frequently used climate maps for Austria from 1961–1990 to 1971–2000. To achieve a station density as high as possible, data from eleven national and foreign institutes were collected and gaps filled. According to the climate parameter, different geostatistical interpolation methods (including regionalised global multilinear regressions, geographically weighted regressions and curve fitting to other parameter) were applied.
The resulting 19 grids concern temperature, precipitation, snow and sunshine parameters. The map images can be obtained via the ZAMG-website. For scientific and planning purposes, the digital grids can be requested by e-mail.
Johann Hiebl, Department for Climate Research, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics
http://www.zamg.ac.at/forschung/klimatologie/klimamodellierung/oeklim2
http://www.zamg.ac.at/produkte/thema/klimainformation/klimakarten
Creation of ecological corridors in Ukraine
A manual on stakeholder involvement and landscape-ecological modelling to connect protected areas, based on a pilot in the Carpathians.
The manuel is the outcome of the project "Realising trans-boundary ecological connectivity in the Ukrainian Carpathians" which has been implemented successfully in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine and the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture and Food Quality with financial support from the Netherlands International Biodiversity Policy Programme (BBI).
Download the manual with this link.
Call for contributions: GAIA Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
GAIA is published quarterly by oekom verlag, based in Munich and Zurich. GAIA is a transdisciplinary journal for scientists and other interested parties concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions.
GAIA_Call_2010.pdf
Knowledge Exchange Call of the Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
NERC-funded researchers are continually adding to our knowledge of the environment. By working with policy makers and regulators, industry and business, non-governmental organisations and charities we can develop appropriate ways to address environmental issues. Sometimes the outcomes of our research can be translated directly into products and services.
Making sure that our science is contributing to the economic well-being and quality of life in the UK and around the world is an integral part of our business. The process by which we do this is called knowledge exchange, and we have a Knowledge Exchange Strategy to help us maximise the use of our science.
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/kecall.asp
IGF-MRI web teaching session in Innsbruck
Claudia Drexler, MRI, receives detailed insructions on the management of mountain.TRIP portal. Alex Schiestl, the mountain.TRIP webmaster, and Fides Braun, IGF are introducing her to the structure and functioning of the Joomala cms. In the future MRI will be responsible for the News, the Blogs, and the future image galleries.
Please send any news to Claudia Drexler!- Send them in now or in response to calls for news that will be sent out regularly in the future.
mountain.TRIP
We are regularly out on the Web and searching for great sites, projects, tools and articles relating to sustainable development in European mountain regions.
Interesting publication
How can we improve information delivery to support conservation and restoration decisions?
Journal Biodiversity and Conservation
ISSN 0960-3115 (Print) 1572-9710 (Online)
Issue Volume 19, Number 5 / May, 2010
Pages 1261-1267
Abstract
Incorporating science into resource conservation and management is becoming increasingly important, but it is not yet clear how to provide information to decision makers most effectively. To evaluate sources of information used to support the management and conservation of California’s riparian bird habitat, we distributed a questionnaire to restoration practitioners and public and private land managers. We asked respondents to rate the importance and availability of different sources of information they use to inform their decisions. Synthetic reviews and peer-reviewed publications both received high importance and availability ratings. Web-based tools received low importance and availability ratings. One-on-one interactions between ecologists and decision makers received high importance ratings, similar to those of peer-reviewed publications and synthetic reviews, but their availability was rated lower than any other method of decision support. Our results suggest that the decision makers we surveyed are already using a wide variety of information, but that prioritizing one-on-one interactions between scientists and decision makers will enhance the delivery of all sources of information.
Austrian Champions Award 2010
Axel Borsdorf received an award as „Austrian Champion in European Research 2010“ for his engagement as coordinator of mountain.TRIP by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in Vienna.
 
Publication
New Science for Environment Policy by the European Commission HERE online available
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