ARCC held its fourth multi-stakeholder engagement workshop on 20-22nd Nov 2019 in Amboseli area in south-eastern Kenya. Like other stakeholder engagement workshops ARCC has held in north-western Tanzania, the workshop in Amboseli was interested in understanding long term changes in the interactions between people and nature using perspectives from different stakeholders across the Amboseli ecosystem. The […]
Western Serengeti stakeholder workshop
ARCC’s third stakeholder engagement workshop was held on 26-28th August 2019 workshop in Bariadi town in northern Tanzania. The stakeholders comprised of government and non-governmental bodies, local community, researchers and Wildlife Management Areas from Bariadi, Itilima, Meatu, Maswa and Busega Districts in Simiyu Region. Like other stakeholders workshops run by ARCC, the workshop was interested […]
ARCC at the 10th IALE World Congress 2019 in Milan, Italy
On July 1-5, 2019, Dr. Rebecca Kariuki and Dr. Claudia Capitani attended the 10th IALE World Congress in Milan, Italy. They ran a symposium titled ‘Reconstructing past landscapes to simulate future sustainable scenarios through multidisciplinary approaches’. In introducing the symposium, they presented their work in East Africa whose focus is on multidisciplinary approaches of assessing past, present […]
Development Corridors Partnership Project (DCP) launching event in Dar es Salaam
On 27th to 29th Nov 2018, Rebecca Kariuki and Rob Marchant joined the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) project in launching their project in Tanzania. The event was held at the Bahari Beach Hotel in Dar Es Salaam and involved DCP’s project partners in Kenya, Tanzania, China and the United Kingdom. Government officials from various agencies […]
Palaeoenvironments fieldwork in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
The second phase of ARCC palaeo fieldwork was done at the Serengeti National Park in November 2018 and was led by Colin Courtney-Mustaphi. Other ARCC researchers who joined the fieldwork were Rob Marchant, Linus Munishi and Rebecca Kariuki. Together with the driver, Alex Moshi, ARCC researchers travelled from Arusha to Serengeti on 17th Nov 2018 […]
First ARCC stakeholder’s workshop in Karatu, Tanzania
On 12th November 2018, Rebecca Kariuki, Linus Munishi and Colin Courtney-Mustaphi travelled to Karatu, in northern Tanzania, for a two day stakeholder’s workshop at the Karatu Lutheran and Conference Hotel. The stakeholder workshop was the first among a series of workshops that ARCC plans to run across northern Tanzania in the coming months. The workshops […]
ARCC First Fieldwork in Tanzania
Rob Marchant, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi and Rebecca Kariuki set out for the first ARCC project fieldwork in northern Tanzania in early July 2018. The fieldwork largely involved collecting lake sediment cores from Speke’s Bay in Lake Victoria. It also involved capturing leaf area index (LAI) images and surveying land use and livelihood patterns across northern Tanzania. […]
A visiting researcher’s story
Like most PhD students determined to make a significant contribution to science and policy through their research, my PhD journey is not an exception. My research had a reached a point where I had to work on that thesis chapter I had always procrastinated to work on. Neither had I the time nor the luxury […]
Kenya’s Natural Capital: A Biodiversity Atlas
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Kenya worked in collaboration with a team of national and international organizations and universities, including University of York, UK, to produce the first Biodiversity Atlas of the Natural Capital for Kenya. The Atlas project, which was coordinated by the African Conservation Centre (ACC) documents […]
International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modelling
With a quest for understanding the changes in space and time for East African Savannah ecosystems, I attended the 2015 International Spring University on Ecosystems Services Modelling. The course was offered at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, Spain from the 7th -17th April 2015. It was organized by the Basque Centre […]
MICMoR-LUC4C Technical Short Course. Putting People on the Land. Introducing the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems, climate and society
On March 3rd -6th, 2015, I attended a technical course at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. This course consisted of lectures and model based practical sessions and it aimed to give a broad overview of the role of the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system, with a strong focus […]
Environment Postgraduate Conference at the University of York
The Environment Department at the University of York had their annual PhD conference on the 19-20th February 2015 at King’s Manor in the Archaeology Department. This annual event provides an opportunity for doctoral students, research associates and staff across the department to learn about the research done in the department. For this event, first year […]