The Vetenskapsrådet (VR, Swedish Research Council) in association with Sida and Formas has funded a multiyear project titled ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ that runs parallel and has overlapping focal areas to the REAL project. The grant forms part of the VR/Sida/Formas Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental change research programme. The […]
New paper on reporting lead-210 geochronological measurements
ARCC team member Colin Courtney-Mustaphi co-authored a study that looked at the reporting patterns of data producers of lead-210 dated sediments to help suggest guidelines for crucial information to report for data reproducibility, reuse, and archiving. Lead-210 profiles are one of most frequently used techniques for dating recent sediments over the past 150 years – […]
New paper reports on fire sciences presented at AFQUA
ARCC team member Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, University of Basel, published a report on PAGES-supported Global Palaeofire Working Group workshop activities at the AFQUA meeting at national Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. The report discusses the participants and the data needs for understanding patterns of fire across the African continent. To see the open-access publications click […]
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 @ AFQUA in Nairobi, Kenya
Members of the ARCC project, including Paul Lane, Rob Marchant and Colin Courtney Mustaphi, presented work at the African Quaternary Association’s annual meeting held at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi (14-22 July 2018). Rob presented the current state of the PAGES supported LandCover6k working group with a focus on combining and synthesising palaeoenvironmental […]
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. […]
Video: Can Humans and Lions Get Along?
Originally posted: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/557792/humans-lions/ Apr 12, 2018 | 642 videos Video by Nani Walker and Alan Toth “Lions are really causing us havoc,” laments an African pastoralist in Nani Walker and Alan Toth’s short documentary, Living with Lions. The film chronicles the conflict between lions and humans in Laikipia County, Kenya, where drought and urbanization have pushed people and wildlife into […]
16th Savanna Science Network Meeting, Skukuza, S.Africa
ARCC project members participated in the 16th annual Savanna Science Network Meeting in Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 4-8 March 2018, organised by SANParks and SAEON.
Participatory Stakeholder Perceptions and Future Scenarios Development Training
Nelson Mandela – African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, hosted Dr. Claudia Capitani (University of York) who led training workshops on Participatory Scenarios for exploring potential futures for communities and stakeholders (3-11 April 2018). Participants: Claudia Capitani (Leader; University of York, UK, Joint Research Commission European Union, Italy) Francis Makari (NCAA, Tanzania) […]
15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association
The 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (PanAf) Rabat, Morocco, between 10-14 September, 2018 Abstracts of papers may be submitted to one of the thematic sessions proposed and accepted available on the site http://panaf18.fsoujda.org/en/accepted-sessions/ PANEL SESSION: Patterns of anthropogenic and climate-induced land cover change: Integrating archaeological, historical and palaeoenvironmental datasets […]
First professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa!
The original article is available here: https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-appoints-first-professor-of-the-deep-history-and-archaeology-of-africa 16 Jan 2018 FELLOWS First professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa Professor Paul Lane has been appointed as the inaugural Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa. “Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Jonathan and Jennifer Oppenheimer Foundation we […]