Position: Post-doctoral Researcher Address: Uppsala University – Engelska parken, Thunbergsv 3 H (Box 626) 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden Email: anna.shoemaker@arkeologi.uu.se Website: Uppsala webpage Bio: I am an environmental archaeologist with a special interest in late Holocene archaeology in eastern Africa. In my role as post-doctoral researcher with the Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) […]
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, […]
Vegetation surveys in Serengeti
The ARCC project has been ramping it’s archaeological activity in western Serengeti this past month, doing participatory mapping and surveys throughout the region. The ARCC project’s archaeologist post-doc Anna Shoemaker was thrilled to be joined in the field from November 6-11 by Professor Tamera Minnick and Richard Alward, both of whom are currently visiting scholars at […]
Pastoralists under Pressure exhibit in York
University Of York Open Lectures Date And Time Pastoralists under Pressure: Political, socioeconomic, and climate challenges in East Africa Fri, 8 Nov 2019, 18:30 GMT Add to Calendar Location Stephen Town Meeting Room, JB Morell Library, University of York, York, UK Description Population growth, climate change and environmental degradation are just some of the challenges […]
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 Imagines Serengeti with Jan Bender Shetler
ARCC project member Anna Shoemaker recently joined Jan Bender Shetler and Jonathon Schramm on an excursion around western Serengeti. Shetler is a professor of history at Goshen College who has enjoyed a long career researching oral traditions, social identity, landscape and gendered memory and environmental history in the Mara region. Jonathon Schramm is an associate professor of […]