3391622b-90f0-4708-bf06-5835e0f1199f eng 772eb73d-a6da-4915-8265-b9e862a922f3 Ev-K2-CNR +39 035 3230511 +39 035 3230551 Via San Bernardino 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy metadata@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org/ 2011-12-09T15:35:31 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS 1984 From Himalaya to Karakoram: the spreading of the project Ev-K2-CNR 2011-05-23T17:56:00 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes. Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-Asia Project. 33 -49 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes. Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-Asia Project. 978-0-444-52990-9 The Pyramid International Laboratory-Observatory is the symbol of the Ev-K2 -CNR Project. The project actually began in 1987, when Prof. Ardito Desio, 90 years old at the time, enthusiastically launched a new geological and geodetic research campaign in the Himalayan area. However, it was only with the building of the Pyramid International Laboratory-Observatory, inaugurated by Prof. Desio himself in 1990, that the project acquired a unique ‘‘logistic base’’ for its scienti?c research. The laboratory, located at 5050 m a.s.l. in the Khumbu Valley, on the Nepali side of Mount Everest, is in fact the ?rst high-altitude scienti?c research center of its kind. It is self-sufficient in its energy supply and contains all common scienti?c instrumentation, making it a suitable place for studying climatic and environmental changes, medicine and human physiology in extreme conditions, geology, geodesy and seismic phenomena. Over time, a wealth of knowledge, initiatives and international relationships have been accumulated and continue to be added to by Ev-K 2 - CNR through research in the ?elds of medicine and physiology; environmental sciences, earth sciences, anthropological sciences and clean technologies. The Ev-K 2 - CNR has been able to play a strategic role in the framework of collaboration amongst institutions, governments and organizations for the exchange and transfer of experiences, technologies and scienti?c and cultural knowledge. The increasingly interdisciplinary approach to research by the team has also led to the development of integrated programs for promoting the socio-economic development of local populations and environmental safeguarding in the region, such as the international Partnership initiative created through the Italian government around Ev-K 2 -CNR’s expertise, or the regional Ev-K 2 -CNR Project ‘‘Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment in Asia’’ (SHARE-Asia), aimed at the establishment of a network of research and monitoring stations for the long-term study of evolutionary environmental processes in the Himalayan–Karakoram region, with a strong technology transfer and capacity-building component to the bene?t of local populations and research institutions. Renato Baudo Institute of Ecosystem Study - CNR Verbania Pallanza Italy r.baudo @ise.cnr.i Elisa Vuillermoz Ev-K2-CNR Bergamo Italy elisa.vuillermoz@ evk2cnr.org Beth Schommer Ev-K2-CNR Chiara Belotti Ev-K2-CNR ELSEVIER nlinfo@sciencedirect.com large_thumbnail https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=3391622b-90f0-4708-bf06-5835e0f1199f&fname=mountain_wit_s.png thumbnail png SHARE Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia, Karakoram, Himalaya climate change, global change altitude GEMET snow GEMET glacier GEMET boundaries -180 180 -90 90 Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.editors/712189/description#description WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Elsevier web site https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/webapp/srv/en/resources.get?id=762&fname=&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map