Mountain Research Initiative Newsletter No. 2

This newsletter contains 56 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, interview and book review.

Content:

• MRI Interview: ACQWA: Assessing the Future of Water Resources in Vulnerable Mountain Regions;
• Science Peaks: A High Altitude Interdisciplinary Field Campaign - The Storm Peak Aerosol and Cloud Characterization Study (SPACCS08);
• Science Peaks: A new Peruvian-Swiss Program on Climate Change Adaptation: Advancing towards Integrated Climate Change Research, Implementation and Science-Policy Dialogue;
• Science Peaks: The Cordillera Forest Dynamics Network (CORFOR);
• Science Peaks: Ongoing and Future Vegetation Changes in the Western Swiss Alps;
• Science Peaks: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Ukrainian Carpathians;
• Science Peaks: International Research Collaboration for the Development of Flow Forecasting Tools for the Upper Indus Basin in Pakistan;
• Science Peaks: Colorado’s Roaring Fork River: Incorporating Climate Change Projections into Watershed Management;
• Science Peaks: The Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland – Knowledge for Sustainability in the Alps;
• News from MRI's regional networks in Africa, the Americas, and Europe;
• Partner Organizations: the Global Land Project;
• Meeting Reports: The Water Towers of the World at the 5th World Water Forum Istanbul 2009;
• Meeting Reports: Mountain Hydrology under Increasing Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Pressure;
• MRI Notes: Introducing a New High Elevation Research Facility in the Southern Appalachian Mountains at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC USA;
• MRI Notes: From „Bergler“ to Greenkeeper. Structural Changes in Andermatt, Switzerland.