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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 […]

Where is Marie now?

Marie Ladekjær Gravesen Senior Researcher, Migration and global order https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2376-9552 originally posted https://research.diis.dk/en/persons/marie-ladekj%C3%A6r-gravesen/ Personal profile Research areas Marie Ladekjær Gravesen’s overall work pertains to natural resource management in the Global South. Land that holds overlapping, potential, or historical usage by a variety of different actors such as government administrators, politicians, investors in green energy installations, biodiversity […]

Where is Franziska now?

Franziska’s role as an Experienced Researcher in the REAL project at Uppsala University led to participation as a curator focusing on global issues, National Museums of World Culture, Sweden. see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_World_Culture https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Where is Anna now?

Anna graduated from her REAL project PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden, after fieldwork in Amboseli, Kenya, and analyses at the National Museums of Kenya and elsewhere. Anna continued archaeological and heritage-focused research in Tanzania through the ARCC project and is now participating in commercial archaeology in western Canada https://terraarchaeology.com/ Recent publications Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Camara-Brugger […]

Where is Paul now?

Prof. Paul Lane currently the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is presently involved in the following research and training projects: 2025-2029 Principal Investigator, Landscape Historical Ecologies of Ancient African Pastoralists (LHEAAPS) European Research Council Advanced Grant / UKRI Frontier Research for research on […]

European School on Ostracoda

Dear colleagues, The European School on Ostracoda, ESO 11, will leave Europe for the first time in August 2026. We are pleased to announce that the organisers of ISO20 in Beijing support our training course this year. Thus, we are able to present our short course immediately before the International Symposium on Ostracoda. ESO will be hosted by China University […]

Upcoming Second Scientific Conference 2026 at National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

the 2nd Biennial National Museums of Kenya (NMK) Association of Kenyan Entomologists (AKE) and Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre (SAJOREC) Joint International Scientific Conference Abstract submission deadline Extended to 28 February 2026 THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE SUB THEMES Contact For More Info: For more inquiries contact the Conference Secretariat at scienceconference@museums.or.ke Follow Us On Social Media: Facebook X-twitter Globe

Africa Moving Mountains Summit

15.06.2026 – 18.06.2026 Kenya, Nanyuki

Round Table on Commercial Anthracology

Oral presentations Oral presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. Oral presentations are organized in thematic clusters (approximately). Each cluster ends with 15 minutes discussion of the respective oral presentations (see preliminary program). All authors should bring their presentations (Power Point or PDF) in external devices ready to install into the equipment provided by the venue. Oral presentations of the morning […]

Applications due for the Landscape Research Group’s 2026 Research Fund 15 May 2026

COST PalaeOpen Paleofire multistakeholder workshop Zaragoza, Spain April 2026

27-29.04.2026 Zaragoza Spain: CSIC hosted a COST PalaeOpen meeting to bring together producers of paleofire data and potential users engaged in land, forest, pasture, and fire management from several countries across Europe from Portugal to Lithuania, Sweden and the Mediterranean. CA23116 – Open Palaeoecological Data – analysing the past building foresight (PalaeOpen) Description Restoring and […]

New paleoenvironmental record from Chalbi Desert, northern Kenya

First Online in The Holocene journal 29.04.2026 Three alumni researchers of the EU Marie Cure Action ITN funded ‘REAL project’ supported the analysis and dissemination of a new diatom, pollen and charcoal record from Erenderi, Marsabit, Kenya, led by Veronica Muruiri et al., 2026. References Muiruri V, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Marchant R, Nkirote M’Mbogori F, Minya A, […]

New priorities for peatland research

Abstract Peatlands are among Earth’s largest terrestrial carbon stores and are crucial for climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, and water security. Yet peatlands worldwide are deteriorating under pressures from climate change and human disturbance. Strategic, globally coordinated research is urgently needed to protect, restore and manage peatlands so they can continue to deliver essential ecosystem services. […]

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Where is Marie now?

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