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Science and mapping at the top of the world

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Amplifying impact through strategic partnerships

Science and mapping

Significantly adding to data availability, the world’s highest automatic weather stations were installed on Mount Everest during the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. We were among the partners there and in an associated range of scientific efforts including work on the highest glacier in world, Khumbu glacier, where ice samples were collected and multiple scientific research projects were conducted. We contributed to the NGS comprehensive map of Asia’s vital rivers building on scientific work to develop the first ever Water Tower Index. This collaboration with NGS complements our long-term effort of bringing much-needed focus to climate change issues facing our region.

Based on the data and information from the expedition, multiple academic papers will be published, the July issue of National Geographic Magazine featured the expedition and the National Geographic TV Channel features aspects of the expedition. In addition, footage and photographs from the expedition are also being used to create educational materials, where ICIMOD researchers are featured explaining AWS networks and how mapping helps us understand glacier and other natural changes in the region.

Based on the data and information from the expedition, multiple academic papers will be published, the July issue of National Geographic Magazine featured the expedition and the National Geographic TV Channel features aspects of the expedition.

Chapter 7

Regional and global outreach

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 ...

3 Dec 2019 Water
Before the Water Comes

Koshi basin communities can now access up-to-date information on floods In the ...

Bringing It All Together

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

From the HKH to Africa

Our CBFEWS success inspires a flood intervention project in Malawi

Science-based regional collaboration through the Upper Indus network 

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

Replication and upscaling in challenging mountain environments

Solar pump and water-lifting package of technologies solves irrigation problems

12 Jul 2021 Cryosphere
Keeping track of glacial lakes

ICIMOD–UNDP report ranks 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes