Knowledge Core GmbH is a strategic partner in environmental research project proposals, implementation and fulfilment, in developing economies, Europe and North America. Our approach combines quantitative and qualitative research methods using multiple lines of evidence from Geosciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, to better understand drivers of environmental change and potential solutions.
Knowledge Core GmbH operates with three main foci
1) deliver guidance, perspective fulfilment support on Environmental Changes through projects primarily in Europe, Africa, and North America;
2) professional training on research methods in the field, laboratory, and computer; and
3) provider of the top geoscientific laboratory hardware and instruments. See: PaleoLabTools for subsampling sediments in the field and laboratory
Recent deliverables:
Courtney-Mustaphi CJ, Githumbi EN, Shoemaker A, Aleman J, Munishi L, Itambu MP, Lapellegerie P, Bailey-Neale K, Marchant R, Lane P. in press. Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dates for environmental change and land use research across eastern Africa: an updated open access data set. Paleoecology of Africa 36. Data: http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJLNRJ
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Camara-Brugger SO, Chellman NJ, Muñoz S, Kariuki R, Damber M, Shoemaker A, Ekblom A, Munishi L, Lane P, Marchant R, Heiri O. 2025. Multiple paleofire proxy metrics from tropical lake sediment and soil in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. The Holocene 35(9): 926–936. [CC BY 4.0 Open Access] Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S4ILZT
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Platts PJ, Willcock S, Timberlake JR, Osborne J, Matimele H, Summer Osgood H, Muiruri V, Gehrels M, Bayliss J, Marchant R. 2025. Tree demographics and soil charcoal evidence of fire disturbances in an inaccessible forest atop the Mount Lico inselberg, Mozambique. Plants, People, Planet 7(1): 229–244. [CC BY 4.0 Open Access] Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EZIWDT Video context: [YouTube]
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Camara-Brugger SO, Ekblom A, Munishi L, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Lane P, Marchant R. 2025. Multiporate Poaceae pollen grains observed in the recent fossil record from the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem and Lake Victoria region. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 333: 105240. Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGZTIK