Workshop to Coordinate Environmental and Cultural Research in Kamchatka

 

Harriman Institute, June 7-11, 1997, Columbia University, New York

 

Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), the National Science Foundation and the Earth Institute

 

David Koester and Susan Holmes, organizers

 

Sunday, June 8, 1997

 

Tour of Black Rock Forest

Evening presentation by Peter Richter, National Park Service

 

Monday, June 9, 1997

 

10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Earth Institute - Peter Eisenberger Director

 

10:30 - 1 :00pm

Presentations: Strategies for Cultural Heritage

*Olga Murashko, lnternational Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, Moscow

*Nikolai Krenke, Archeological Institute, Russian Academy of Science

*David Koester, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

*Viktoria Petrasheva, Senior Research Associate, Kamchatka Institute of Ecology

*Jonathan Bobaljik, Harvard University and Department of Linguistics, McGill University

 

2:15 - 6:00

Presentations (cont.) - Social System/Ecosystem

*Aleksandr Valentsev, biologist, Kamchatka Institute of Ecology

*Erich Kasten, Institute of Ethnology, Free University, Berlin~

*Elena Dulchenko, ecologist, Kamchatka Institute of Ecology

 

4:15-4:30 Break

 

*Nelson Hancock, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

*Larisa Khamidulina, -Deputy, Representative Assembly of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug

*Gleb Raygorodetsky, Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board, Inuvik, MWT, Canada

 

Discussion of areas for possible cooperation and collaboration as time permits

 

June 10, 1997

 

Group A – Bronx Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society

Group B – American Museum of Natural History, Manuscript Division, New York Public Library

 

 

June 11, 1997

 

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – Collaboration planning