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START/PACOM Awardees: 2004

Isabelle Ansorge
Institute: University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Title of Proposal: “Global Change: Monitoring the Indo-Atlantic connections south of Africa (GOODHOPE)”

Charles Basalirwa
Institute: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Title of Proposal: “Climate change and variability on water resources in Uganda”

Abdelali Boulli
Institute: Cadi Ayyad University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
Title of Proposal: “Inventory and mapping pine populations in Morocco using satellite data and evaluation of their physiological response to environmental stresses”

M.B.K. Darkoh
Institute: University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Title of Proposal: “Natural Resource Utilization and Land Use Conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”

Ekanem Ekanem
Institute: University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
Title of Proposal: “Societal pressures on groundwater resources in southeastern Nigeria”

Josiah Murageh Kariuki
Institute: Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya
Title of Proposal: “Representativeness and Long-Range Transport of Carbon Monoxide at Mount Kenya GAW Station”

Seifu Kebede
Institute: Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Title of Proposal: “Modeling the Isotopic Composition of Ethiopian Lakes: a tool for understanding past and future variations in climate and water resources”

Wellington Masamba
Institute: H. Oppenheimer Okavango Research Center, Maun, Botswana
Title of Proposal: “Methane and Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in Different Ecosystems of Botswana”

Aida Diongue Niang
Institute: Direction de la Météorologie Nationale du Sénégal, Dakar-Yoff, Senegal
Title of Proposal: “Variability and Predictability of West African Monsoon Onset”

Donatien Njomo
Institute: University of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon
Title of Proposal: “Mapping Deforestation Rates and Carbon Fluxes in the Congo Basin Forest using Multi-Date SPOT-VGT Imagery for 1999 to 2003”

Eric Odada
Institute: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Title of Proposal: “Environmental Assessment of Lake Victoria Basin for AEO Report”

Daniel Olago
Institute: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Title of Proposal: “Pan Africa PAGES Workshop on ‘African Palaeoperspectives: Linking the Past to the Present and the Future’”


Oluwasemire Olatunji
Institute: Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru-Zaria, Nigeria
Title of Proposal: “Strengthening Agricultural Research Capacity to Generate Technologies that Adapt to Climatic Shifts and Variability in Nigeria’s Dry Belt”

Mary Scholes
Institute: University of Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa
Title of Proposal: “Fire and climate change feedback in Southern Africa”

Chris Shisanya
Institute: Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Title of Proposal: “Vulnerability Assessment of Maize and Sorghum Crops to Climate Variability and Change in Kenya”

Joy M.B. Tukahirwa
Institute: The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda, ECOTRUST, Kampala, Uganda
Title of Proposal: “Assessment of Land Use / Land Cover Changes, Socio-economic Drivers and Associated Carbon Fluxes in Southwestern Uganda”

Souleye Wade
Institute: Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, Darker-Fann, Senegal
Title of Proposal: “Setting the Benchmark – What do we Know/What is our Future? A science review and synthesis workshop on the long-term impacts of environmental change in West Africa”