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Dirk Verschuren contact info

Dirk Verschuren contact info

Position: Professor, Head of Limnology Unit, Ghent University, Coordinating team in REAL project Address: Ghent University Department of Biology Limnology Research Unit. K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 L10 9000 Gent Email: dirk.verschuren@UGent.be Website: UGent Limnology Publications: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801000736550

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 […]

New pollen record from alpine Mt Kenya

New pollen record from alpine Mt Kenya

New publication Cores from the high-elevation lake, Oblong Tarn, on Mount Kenya near the Cesar and Josef Glaciers, were collected in 1983 and 1985 by a team from Stockholm University led by Wibjorn Karlen. Then again a team from Gent University led by Dirk Verschuren collected additional cores in 2010. Pollen counts from the cores […]

REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi

REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi

Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa– Past, Present and Future On 11 -12 July 2017, the Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) ITN hosted its final conference “Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa – Past, Present, Future” at Uhuru Hotel and Conference Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. The conference provided a forum […]

REAL web documentary preview in Nairobi

REAL web documentary preview in Nairobi

On 13 May 2017 the Alliance Francaise in Nairobi, in collaboration with IFRA, the REAL ITN, CNRS and the French Embassy, organized a mini film festival to explore the diversity of scientific documentary films. Part of the film screening was a preview of parts of the REAL web documentary that traces different ways of exploring […]

PAGES open science meeting

PAGES open science meeting

Colin Courtney Mustaphi attended the PAGES Past Global Changes open science meeting in Zaragoza, Spain, May 9-13. This included giving a talk on the LandCover6k project efforts to bring together palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data from the East Africa region. A poster on the collaboration of multiple ESRs and project partners was also presented that shows […]

REAL project management and advisory board meeting

REAL project management and advisory board meeting

 Warwick July 2016 On 7 July 2016 the REAL ITN management and advisory board met at the University of Warwick.

Field Diary Special Issue: Call for Contributions

Field Diary Special Issue: Call for Contributions

The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary NGOs, security, graduate students, and academia. The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New […]

REAL Visits Mount Suswa Conservancy

REAL Visits Mount Suswa Conservancy

March 31st is one of my most favourite field visits. It was most honourable to have almost the entire REAL group visit one of my field sites – Mount Suswa, after a conservation training in Nairobi. Not only was visiting Suswa a break from the city, it was an opportunity to visit a conservancy, one conservation […]

Field Diary Call for Contributions

Field Diary Call for Contributions

The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New Zealand. It is available here: http://www.real-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Field-Diary-issue-1.pdf The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary […]

LandCover6k: PAGES working group

LandCover6k: PAGES working group

Overview Adequate incorporation of land cover in global and regional climate models is still one of the major priorities in the climate modeling community. In particular, anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is still not successfully implemented in these models. As a result, climate modeling in paleo-mode or projection mode that tries to take ALCC into account is […]

REAL MID-TERM MEETING

REAL MID-TERM MEETING

The REAL mid-term meeting was hosted at the University of Ghent by Prof. Dirk Veschuren and his team. A special thanks to Yoeri Torsy for arranging the details that made it such an enjoyable meeting. From the 15th-19th June 2015, the REAL team members spent time together updating each other on their research progress,discussed the […]

Palaeoenvironmental site map

Palaeoenvironmental site map

Interactive map of palaeoenvironmental sites in East Africa. Click the sites to find the relevant published studies and access the papers. An index list of sites can be found by clicking the box at the top left corner of the map. version 001 Colin Courtney Mustaphi 15 December 2014 Sites and references Amani Pond Mumbi […]

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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

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Talk on East African futures

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Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
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