Mountain Research Initiative Newsletter no. 1 September 2008

The MRI community is growing rapidly and a lot of information on global change research in mountains is passing through our hands. One of MRI's role is to act as an information clearinghouse and to process this information quickly and efficiently, as in our four regional Newsflashes. With the MRI News we can now share in more detail some exciting global change science from mountain regions around the world.



The six articles in the section “Science Peaks” cover a broad range. Read them to learn how global change topics have made it onto the research agenda of protected areas, e.g. the Swiss National Park, and to draw inspiration from successful networks such as CIRMOUNT (Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains) and MIREN (Mountain Invasion Research Network). Cooperation and exchange become more compelling as the complexity of research topics and data grows. The article on the “Swiss Experiment” talks of a new dimension in data sharing across disciplines.



Content of the first edition:

• Inside MRI / MRI's Principal Investigators
  
• Science Peaks: Global change research in the Biosphere Reserve Val Müstair and the Swiss National Park (BVM-SNP)
  
• Science Peaks: The Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains - a progress report
  
• Science Peaks: The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN)
  
• Science Peaks: Swiss Experiment: an e-science platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research
  
• Science Peaks: The contribution of satellite remote sensing to the monitoring of cryosphere in mountains
• Science Peaks: High Elevations working group: a new element of the Coordinated Energy and water cycle Observation Project.
• News from MRI's regional networks
  
• Meeting Report
• MRI Notes