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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 […]

Questionnaire2023

Draft for literature review questionnaire links    

New paper on past Mount Kenya forest fires

New paper on past Mount Kenya forest fires

  New paper out on long term forest fire interactions on Mount Kenya https://t.co/TCIiA5VXJl #mountkenya #JQS @YorkEnvironment @museumsofkenya @York_IGDC — Rob Marchant (@marchant_robert) August 23, 2022 Courtney-Mustaphi CJ, Rucina S, Marchant, R. 2022 in press. Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI:10.1002/jqs.3466  

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 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 […]

BIOPAMA regional resource hub for Eastern and Southern Africa

BIOPAMA regional resource hub for Eastern and Southern Africa

ARCC team members and collaborators attended the official launching of the Regional Resource Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa.   Official launch of the Regional Resource Hub The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, IUCN and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission invite you to join the virtual launch event of […]

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 […]

The Lost Forest documentary

The Lost Forest documentary

  Dr Phil Platts is a researcher in the University of York’s Environment Department. He was part of the Mount Lico expedition to Mozambique which was an academic partnership between 13 universities, museums and research institutions on three continents, including the Natural History Museum and National Herbarium in Mozambique. During the expedition soil samples were collected from […]

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 […]

Beny Lilawola joins ARCC

Beny Lilawola joins ARCC

ARCC project members have expanded to include Beny Lilawola, an MA student in the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam. Lilawola is supervised by former REAL project ESR Dr Maxmillian Chuhila. Lilawola has long been interested in how cash crop production in the colonial period transformed agricultural livelihoods and landscapes throughout Tanzania. […]

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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...]

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