Southeast Asia

South Asia

Temperate East Asia

Oceania

Mediterranean

Africa

The International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL)

This project was designed to bring together the scientific community working on the East African Lakes. The goals of IDEAL are to retrieve a long, high resolution record of climate change in tropical East Africa, establish a comprehensive training program for African students and scientists in a research partnership between African and northern hemisphere scientists, and to investigate the biogeochemistry and physical dynamics of the lakes to better understand the paleoclimate record and to aid in understanding the lakes as a unique regional resource.

For more information: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/nyanza