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 […]
New paper on Biocultural Heritage in Africa!
2 January 2019 A new open-access publication co-authored by REAL team members Anna Shoemaker and Paul Lane is available from the MDPI journal ‘Land’. Ekblom A, Shoemaker A, Gillson L, Lane P, Lindholm K-L. 2019. Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Land 8(1), 5. Abstract In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural […]
New Paper Published: Water resources on Kilimanjaro
New research on irrigation and water resource use near Moshi, Tanzania, has been published by REAL team member Dr. Chris de Bont (Stockholm University, Sweden) in World Development! de Bont C, Komakech H, Jan Veldwisch. 2019. Neither modern nor traditional: Farmer-led irrigation development in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. World Development 116, 15-27. Abstract: The debate around what […]
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 […]
Dr. Anna Shoemaker successfully defends her thesis!
Anna successfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday, September 27, 2018 – and quantities of schnapps were drunk on Saturday evening to celebrate! A digital copy of her thesis is available here: Shoemaker A. 2018. Pastoral pasts in the Amboseli landscape: An archaeological exploration of the Amboseli ecosystem from the later Holocene to the colonial […]
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. […]
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) […]