In June 2026, Marie Curie ITN funded REAL project alumni members Colin Courtney-Mustaphi and Rob Marchant met with Stephen Rucina and Veronica Muiruri palynologists at National Museums of Kenya to celebrate past publications and Rob’s new ERC Synergy funded AFRI-CAN project and continued knowledge exchanges and collaborations.
See also
Muiruri V, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Marchant R, Nkirote M’Mbogori F, Minya A, Lane P. 2026. High resolution multi-proxy analyses document Mid to Late Holocene environmental change in arid Marsabit County, northern Kenya, East Africa. The Holocene 36(7): 729–745. [© The Author(s) 2026] Data:https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S3PBQG
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. [CC BY 4.0 Open Access] Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGZTIK
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, Rucina S, Marchant R. 2023. Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya. Journal of Quaternary Science 38(2): 146–159. DOI:10.1002/jqs.3466
Githumbi EN, Finch J, Kinyanjui RN, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Musili P, Rucina S, Lejju J, Liljenberg P, Marchant R. 2025. Late Quaternary montane forest dynamics from equatorial East Africa: a biome perspective. Journal of Biogeography 52(9): e15173. [CC BY 4.0 Open Access]
Courtney-Mustaphi C, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Munishi L, Ekblom A, Marchant R, Lane P. 2021. Understanding land use and land cover changes in northern Tanzania. Swiss Society for African Studies SSAS [Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien SSEA – SGAS] newsletter, 2021/1: 20–23. [PDF]
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Kinyanjui R, Shoemaker A, Mumbi C, Muiruri V, Marchant L, Rucina S, Marchant R. 2021. A 3000-year record of vegetation changes and fire at a high-elevation wetland on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Quaternary Research 99: 34–62. doi: 10.1017/qua.2020.76 [Open Access version]
Githumbi EN, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Marchant R. 2021. Sedimentological, palynological and charcoal analysis of the hydric palustrine sediments from the Lielerai-Kimana wetlands, Kajiado, southern Kenya. Palaeoecology of Africa 35: 107–126.
DOI:10.1201/9781003162766-8
Githumbi E, Courtney Mustaphi C, Marchant R. 2021. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Afromontane vegetation variability at a headwater wetland within the Eastern Mau Forest, Kenya. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(2): 239–254. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3267
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Rucina SM, King L, Selby K, Marchant R. 2021. A palaeovegetation and diatom record of tropical montane forest fire, vegetation and hydroseral changes on Mount Kenya from 27000–16500 cal yr BP. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 581: 110625. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110625
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Capitani C, Boles O, Kariuki R, Newman R, Munishi L, Marchant R, Lane P. 2019. Integrating evidence of land use and land cover change for land management policy formulation along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands. Anthropocene 28: 100228.
Githumbi EN*, Courtney Mustaphi CJ*, Yun KJ, Muiruri V, Rucina SM, Marchant R. 2018. Late Holocene wetland transgression and 500 years of vegetation and fire variability in the semi-arid Amboseli landscape, southern Kenya. Ambio – A Journal of the Human Environment 47(6): 682–696. *equal contribution [Phys.org summary]