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Ealát: Pasture | Eallu: Herd | Eallin: Life

Welcome to the website for the EALÁT project: An International Polar Year (IPY) endorsed project (No. 399) and also endorsed by the Arctic Council.

EALÁT is a Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study and is a project that examines reindeer pastoralism in the light of climate change. On this site you will find background information about the project, presentations by Ealát researchers, details of the various work packages, lots of news related to the project, a wide variety of photo galleries, web video pages and more. Learn more about IPY EALAT here.

EALAT Information - Inari. By Anne MAria MAgga

IP -IPY Opening Report, Kautokeino

The opening of Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year (IP-IPY)
2007-2008, Báktehárji Kautokeino, February 14th 2007.

Download a report and summary of the Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year here (English)

IPIPY-opening-report-ferdig.pdf

EALAT Outreach & Information

The International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) is responsible for outreach and information functions of the Ealát project. ICR planned, coordinated and executed the Opening Ceremony of the Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year, the details of which are here. ICR is responsible for the EALAT-Information project, which is entitled 'Reindeer Herding, traditional knowledge and Adaptation to Climate Change and Loss of Grazing Land' which is endorsed by the Arctic Council.

EALAT Work Packages

The EALAT research project is divided across many institutions and organisations in several countries. At the core of the project are 7 'Work Packages', which are self contained areas of research and invesigation that cover the wide range of issues that EALAT addresses. Read more about the Work Packages here

Myter, misforståelser og fakta om klima

"Vi har samlet endel myter og spørsmål omkring klima som ofte dukker opp. Disse er besvart av Cecilie Mauritzen, Inger Hanssen-Bauer og Rasmus Benestad - alle klimaforskere ved met.no"

Latest Presentation

EALAT is a network that draws on the expertise of a great number of partners which we highlight here. EVA Wiklund presented a two day seminar on meat quality with a focus on reindeer. See her presentations here. See this and more here.

EALAT Partners - Book Forthcoming

A book called Empirical Statistical Downscaling by EALAT partners Rasmus E Benestad and Inger Hanssen-Bauer of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway) and others is to be published this year. 

Empirical-statistical downscaling (ESD) is a method for estimating how local climatic variables are affected by large-scale climatic conditions. ESD has been applied to local climate/weather studies for years, but there are few — if any — textbooks on the subject. It is also anticipated that ESD will become more important and commonplace in the future, as anthropogenic global warming proceeds. Thus, a textbook on ESD will be important for next-generation climate scientists. Read more here

EALAT Seminar - Now Online!

The EALAT Seminar on Traditional Knowledge has just wrapped in Kautokeino/ Guovdageaidnu and was a great success with over 80 participants. Speakers included Dr. Fikret Berkes, Dr. Carsten Smith, and EALAT Projects leaders Ole Henrik Magga and Svein Mathiesen.

Go here for more information and links to online recordings.