REAL

Resilience in East African Landscapes

  • Welcome
  • About us
  • People
    • Advisory Board
    • Researchers
      • David Anderson
      • Franziska Bedorf
      • Michael Bollig
      • Lowe Borjeson
      • Colin Courtney Mustaphi
      • Benoit Hazard
      • Paul Lane
      • Rob Marchant
      • Dirk Verschuren
      • Mats Widgren
    • Early Stage Researchers
      • Christine Adongo
      • Maxmillian Chuhila
      • Chris de Bont
      • Aynalem Degefa
      • Esther Githumbi
      • Marie Gravesen
      • Rebecca Kariuki
      • Eric Kioko
      • Nik Petek
      • Annemiek Pas Schrijver
      • Anna Shoemaker
      • Geert van der Plas
    • Associate Partners
  • Projects
  • News
    • REAL News
    • Conferences and workshops
    • Training
    • Fieldwork
    • Outreach
  • Resources
    • Cartography and Geospatial
      • Maps and Data
      • GIS Tutorials and Resources
    • Links
    • Research Permits
  • Publications
    • REAL Publications
    • Laboratory Protocols
    • Lexicon
    • Library Archive
    • Palaeo- Glossary
  • Contact us
  • ARCC Project 2017-2021
    • ARCC project overview
    • ARCC blog
  • Annemiek Pas Publications
  • BSX

Anna Shoemaker

Anna Shoemaker

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) […]

ARCC land use scenario discussions at NM-AIST, Arusha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Next Page »

Latest News

New paper on past Mount Kenya forest fires

  New paper out on long term forest fire interactions on Mount Kenya https://t.co/TCIiA5VXJl … [Read More...]

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 … [Read More...]

Swiss Society for African Studies newsletter

  The latest Newsletter 2021/1 from the Swiss Society for African Studies features an ARCC … [Read More...]

Talk on East African futures

  Rebecca Kariuki (The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania … [Read More...]

More News

  • About us
  • People
  • Projects
  • Training
  • Resources
  • Contacts

Site information

REAL is a Marie Curie Actions InnovativeTraining Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.

Find us on Facebook:

Find us on Facebook:

Coordinating partner

Prof. Paul Lane
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University, and
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Copyright © 2023