Current Position:Senior Archaeologist, Terra Archaeology Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. At Terra, Anna currently manages archaeological assessment projects in collaboration with First Nations, and provincial and municipal government agencies primarily in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Shoemaker, Anna. 2018. Pastoral pasts in the Amboseli landscape: An archaeological exploration of the Amboseli ecosystem from the […]
Introducing the new MCAA brand and website
We are proud to share with you our new brand identity and website. This comprehensive update, effective immediately, improves our alignment with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme and enhances compliance with accessibility requirements, ensuring a more inclusive experience for our diverse, global network. The brand is a visual evolution that reflects our new motto, […]
New ARCC project study on past fires around Serengeti
Research Context Soils of Serengeti have been characterised at relatively broad scales (Jager, 1982; Scoon, 2018; Hengl et al., 2015) and are an important influence on vegetation cover and biodiversity (Timbuka and Kabigumila, 2006; Sinclair et al., 2008; Mbise, 2015). The disturbance ecology on the kopje rock outcrops themselves has not investigated in much detail. […]
REAL project Final Report Archived in CORDIS
Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” Project Information Grant agreement ID: 606879 Start date: 1 September 2013End date: 31 August 2017 Funded under Total cost € 3 968 063,33 Objectives (CORDIS) The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape […]
ARCC land use scenario discussions at NM-AIST, Arusha
On 30 March 2022, Rob Marchant led discussions on land use and land cover change scenarios developed in the ARCC project to students and researchers at NM-AIST, as well as researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture, TAWIRI among others. The interactive meeting promoted the methods used and the outputs and gained feedback on other forms of […]
Swiss Society for African Studies newsletter
The latest Newsletter 2021/1 from the Swiss Society for African Studies features an ARCC project summary and many news articles on recent developments involving Swiss universities. Printed copies are available around the University of Basel. Courtney-Mustaphi C, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Munishi L, Ekblom A, Marchant Rob, Lane P. 2021. Understanding land use and […]
Talk on East African futures
Rebecca Kariuki (The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania / University of York, UK) will present on “East African Futures: Impacts of Land Cover Change on Achieving Sustainable Development Targets.“ Rebecca Kariuki presented at The Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. The talk can […]
New publications on Kenyan wetlands
REAL PhD graduate, Esther Githumbi, has recently published two new publications on wetlands of Kenya. One study in the high elevation area of Eastern Mau Forest and another among the Amboseli wetlands, near the foothills of Kilimanjaro. REAL project members shown in bold font. Githumbi EN, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Marchant R. in press 2021. Sedimentological, palynological […]
New paper on Land Use and Land Cover Change
Dr Rebecca Kariuki has led a new publications on stakeholder perspectives on Land Use and Land Cover Change in the near future of northern Tanzania. The publication is available as open access from PLoS ONE. Kariuki, RW, Munishi L, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Capitani C, Shoemaker A, Lane P, Marchant R. 2021. Integrating stakeholders’ perspectives and spatial modelling […]
Western Serengeti research dissemination workshop
In early December 2020, two ARCC researchers, Dr. Rebecca Kariuki and Dr. Linus Munishi led a research dissemination workshop at Balili Rock Resort in Bunda town, northwestern Tanzania. The workshop aimed to give feedback, disseminate and discuss modelled future land cover change scenarios for the wider Serengeti ecosystem that diverse stakeholders from the Serengeti ecosystem […]
A new paper about vegetation change on Kilimanjaro
Three ARCC team members contributed to developing the study with partners at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, and TAWIRI in Tanzania! The study reports on paleoenvironmental data from Maua mire, a high-elevation wetland that was analysed to understand how vegetation changed over the past 3000 years. All photos by Rob Marchant. See what […]
Amboseli scenario planning workshop
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 […]
Participatory mapping of bio-cultural heritage hotspots in western Serengeti
Dr Anna Shoemaker, ARCC post-doc has just spent the last month touring around western Serengeti visiting heritage sites in collaboration with local partners in an effort to document and understand the historical ecology of this incredibly varied landscape. The range of sites encountered was vast and included German colonial communication posts, hand-dug 19th/20th century wells, […]