Professor Igor Severskiy, Kazakhstan Institute of Geography, Almaty, his daughter Marina, English teacher at USAID and translator, Betsy Armstrong and Richard Armstrong discuss plans for future collaboration on September 24, 2012. Professor Severskiy directs research on the Tuyuksu glacier, the site of one of the longest running mass balance studies in the world.

Meeting with Meteo Tajikistan in Dushanbe, September 25, 2012. Director Mr. Mahmad Safarov (center) and members of his staff (left), with Richard Armstrong and Daler Asrorov, USAID (right).
Credit: B. Armstrong

Richard Armstrong met with Professor Inom Normatov, Institute of Water Problems, Hydropower and Ecology, and Tajikistan National University, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, September 26, 2012, to develop a collaborative study on the glacier-fed Vakhsh River, a tributary of the Amudarya.
Credit: B. Armstrong

Meeting with the glacier and hydrology working group at the Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower Engineering in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, September 26, 2012. First row (left to right) Tamara Tuzova, Richard Armstrong, Vladimir V. Romanovski, Valerii A. Kuzmichenok; Second row (left to right) Shatravin Bakyt, Vladimir Shatzavin, Marina Lishenko (translator), Betsy Armstrong (communications specialist), Rysbek Satylkanov.
Credit: K. Satylkanov

Richard Armstrong traveled to the Kara Batkak glacier with Shatravin Bakyt, Director of the Tien-Shan High Mountain Research Center field project and others, to establish a plan for monitoring ablation and stream discharge in support of CHARIS goals. The research hut is shown in the foreground. The glacier terminus is at 3400 m and the glacier is located in the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyz Republic.
Credit: B. Armstrong

On the Kara Batkak glacier (left to right) Vladimir Shatzavin, Betsy Armstrong, Marina Lishenko, Richard Armstrong, and Shatravin Bakyt, Director of the Tien-Shan High Mountain Research Center.     Credit: Janat Abdrayev