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Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

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CryoHub creates a thriving online community of stakeholders from government, academia, and NGOs

Nurturing collaborative cryospheric work

Researchers and other stakeholders interested in the cryosphere come together in the HKH CryoHub, a collaborative web-based platform that enables access to and sharing of cryospheric data from ongoing, published and archival data. Research partners from across Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan are particularly active but the CryoHub reaches beyond traditional partnerships to create a thriving online community of cryosphere stakeholders including practitioners from government, academia, and NGOs whose unique insights are helping to fill longstanding data gaps and improving our ability to understand the cryospheric changes we are witnessing across the HKH. The CryoHub shares data generated by ICIMOD and partners and provides metadata on historical and other data to ensure more easy linkages between data and users. A regular “researchers in the spotlight” segment gives individual researchers visibility and helps the community to identify colleagues with similar or compatible interests and skillsets, nurturing collaborations.

With rapid glacier melt in the HKH, data accessibility is crucial to collaborative transboundary research that can help us understand the dynamics and risks in this critically important region.

Chapter 6

Facilitating regional cooperation

Planning for the Future

Modelling tools determine future water availability and demand and have the potential to help planners and decision makers

Knowledge hub proposed for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Koshi basin

As part of a wider effort between Nepal, India, and China to strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Koshi ...

Multi-scale integrated river basin management resource book co-creation reinforces its relevance

Demand-driven, context-specific workshop allows for module testing

Science-based regional collaboration through the Upper Indus network 

Members are presently working on basin level issues focusing on climate change and resilience

Capacity building in using open-source software

Through trainings organised by our Cryosphere, Climate Services, and Himalayan University Consortium initiatives, we have introduced ...

Bringing It All Together

An integrated information platform gives users valuable information on the Koshi basin For scientists and researchers working ...

Interdisciplinarity at altitude

Consultative efforts and pilots across the Kangchenjunga Landscape have identified best practices for improved yield, and a shared vision ...

Benchmark glaciers for monitoring in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Key steps towards more data generation, sharing and regional cooperation to understand and mitigate climate change impacts