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Ancient Lake Victoria: 17000 years ago to present

Our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental changes of Lake Victoria has grown over the past few years with the efforts of Researchers and PhDs involved in the Swiss SNF funded Sinergia Lake Victoria project (SNSF, 2018), based at EAWAG and University of Bern; and the Swedish Research Council funded ARCC project (Scaini et al 2024 Ambio). […]

Questionnaire participation 2024

Are you interested in environmental change in East Africa? I am Dr. Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, an Environmental Scientist based at the University of Basel, Switzerland. I invite you to complete a short (10 minute) anonymous online questionnaire about research publications of environmental change and land use and land cover change in eastern Africa. The questionnaire is […]

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

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 […]

Sediment coring in Thurgau, Switzerland

Ein Projekt der Universität Basel und des Amts für Archäologie Thurgau (AATG) Bohrkernuntersuchungen im Thurgau Klima, Umwelt, Mensch im Thurgau (KUMiT): Bohrkernuntersuchungen im Kanton Thurgau The KUMiT project combines archaeology and paleoenvironmental sciences on lake sediment cores in Thurgau, Switzerland, to learn about human-land use, climate, and vegetation changes over the past few thousand years. […]

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

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

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 […]

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Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
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