CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network

CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network (CARMA) is a scientific research network, launched in 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia[2] and funded by the Canadian IPY which focusses on the health of health "the North’s migratory tundra caribou and wild reindeer populations" in the face of global change, with up to 80% declines of some herds of wild Rangifer since 2004.[3]:3 The collaborative research is undertaken by an international team of scientists, administrators and members of local community members, particularly Rangifer hunters who share a common interest in their survival[4]

CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network
Formation2004
Founded atVancouver, British Columbia
Key people
Don E. Russell coordinator[1]
Websitecarma.caff.is

History

In 2000 Rangifer was confirmed as the key indicator species and the official Network was endorsed at Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) group gathering in Iceland held "to develop a framework for a circumpolar biodiversity monitoring program."[2]

CARMA was launched in Vancouver, BC in 2004 and is funded under the Canadian International Polar Year (IPY) program. The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)'s Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, "an international network of scientists, governments, Indigenous organizations and conservation groups working to harmonize and integrate efforts to monitor the Arctic's living resources"[4] invited CARMA to become an official Network.[5]

During the 24-month period ending in March 2009, over fifty thousand researchers from over sixty countries embarked on collaborative intensive scientific research projects on the polar regions in the fourth and largest International Polar Years (IPY) since its inception in 1882.[6][7][8][9] which resulted in the report entitled "Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008".[6]

Organization

CARMA "has a small organizing committee coordinated through the Northern Research Institute (NRI)[10] of Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada."[11] CARMA is a network under the CBMP Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) whichcdelivers biodiversity status to the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) group which reports directly to the Arctic Council (AC). CARMA included scientists from Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the United States and Russia.[11][12][13]

Tools and resources

Tools and resources in 2004 included the caribou Anatomy Atlas,[14] Voices of caribou people, Standardized monitoring protocols, Manuals, Community Training video, Climate database, CARMA database, Models and a Website.[15]

Conferences and publications

In 2012 CARMA produced the report entitled, "CARMA 8 Moving Forward: Knowledge to Action."[3]

In 2013 CARMA published "CARMA’s MERRA-based caribou range climate database" in the journal Rangifer.[16]

CARMA representatives presented at the 16th North American Caribou Workshop, the "foremost conference of its kind addressing caribou biology, research and management", the held in Thunder Bay in May 2016 organized by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Trent University and Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Amec Foster Wheeler.[17]

References
  1. Eamer, Claire (April 9, 2010), "Caribou show biodiversity within a single species" (PDF), CARMA
  2. About CARMA, CARMA, nd, retrieved December 29, 2016
  3. Joan Eamer; Don Russell, eds. (December 6, 2012), CARMA 8 Moving Forward: Knowledge to Action, Vancouver, BC, Canada: CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network, p. 47, retrieved December 29, 2016
  4. About CARMA, CARMA, retrieved December 29, 2016
  5. "CAFF - About CAFF".
  6. Krupnik, Igor; Allison, Ian; Bell, Robin; Cutler, Paul; Hik, David; López-Martínez, Jerónimo; Rachold, Volker; Sarukhanian, Eduard; Summerhayes, Colin (February 2011). Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges:International Polar Year 2007-2008. Summary by the IPY Joint Committee. Igor Krupnik, Ian Allison, Robin Bell, Paul Cutler, David Hik, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Volker Rachold, Eduard Sarukhanian, Colin Summerhayes (eds.). Rovaniemi, Finland: University of the Arctic and ICSU/WMO Joint Committee for International Polar Year 2007–2008. ISBN 978-1-896445-55-7. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  7. Barr, Susan and Lüdecke, Cornelia (Eds.), 2010, The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). Series: From Pole to Pole, Vol. 1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, XI, 319 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-12401-3, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12402-0
  8. IPY History
  9. "International Polar Year 2007-2008: A Valuable Opportunity for Canada", Government of Canada, retrieved December 29, 2016
  10. Yukon_College_receives_Prestigious_research_status
  11. Don E. Russell, Anne Gunn and Robert G. White (January 26, 2015), "CircumArctic Collaboration to Monitor Caribou and Wild Reindeer" (PDF), Arctic, 68 (11): 6, doi:10.14430/arctic4496, retrieved December 29, 2016CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  12. Friis-Baastad, Erling (November 29, 2013), "The good-news caribou" (PDF), Yukon Research Centre Yukon College and Environment Yukon
  13. Friis-Baastad, Erling (March 22, 2013), "Cars vs. caribou: an avoidable 'harvest'" (PDF), Yukon Research Centre Yukon College and Environment Yukon
  14. The Rangifer Anatomy Project: Linking community and scientific approaches to caribou structure and function, Aurora Research Institute, 2009, retrieved December 29, 2016
  15. Don Russell (2004), The CARMA Network: Tools and resources (PDF), Vancouver, retrieved December 29, 2016
  16. Don E. Russell, Paul H. Whitfield, Jing Cai, Anne Gunn, Robert G. White and Kim -152Poole scientific literature. "CARMA's MERRA-based caribou range climate database". Rangifer. 33 (21): 145. Retrieved December 29, 2016.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  17. 16th North American Caribou Workshop (PDF), Thunder Bay, Ontario, May 20, 2016, retrieved December 29, 2016
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