Digging a posthole in order to set up a water monitoring station

Recent work is being done in Nepal as a part of a project assessing livestock vulnerability to climate change.  Weather stations are being installed in some of the most climate-vulnerable sites in order to collect daily records of precipitation and temperature.  With the collected information, the scientists working on the project hope to be able to quantify any microclimates that exist and to gauge whether pronounced synoptic scale weather events (such as monsoonal rainfall) are significant enough to moderate effects of microclimates.  The initial testing consists of 30 sites (located on women-run Village Model Farms) that monitor temperature and precipitation as well as report extreme weather events in order to collect accurate data.  The end goal for the project is to link together climate assessment throughout Nepal in order to better prepare herders in for climate change.

Robert Gillies, PI, Utah State University , Director of the Utah Climate Center / State Climatologist (Utah), Associate Professor, Utah Climate Center (Dept. of Plants, Soils, and Climate)

Project: Past and Future Climate Assessments of Livestock Vulnerability in Nepal (CALVN)

Partner: Helen Keller International, Inc.

See the CALVN PRESENTATION for more images and descriptions of setting up the stations.