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START/PACOM Awardees: 2006

Getachew Tesfaye Abebe
Institution: Addis Ababa University, ETHIOPIA
Title of Proposal: Annual Carbon Exchange Budget and Biomass Production in a Dry Afromontane Forest of Ethiopia.

Asfawossen Asrat
Institution: Addis Ababa University, ETHIOPIA
Title of Proposal: High-resolution, multi-proxy study of speleothems and formation drip waters from Mechara caves, Southeastern Ethiopia

Geoffrey Chavula
Institution: University of Malawi (The Polytechnic), MALAWI
Title of Proposal: Development of Remote Sensing Tools to Improve Understanding and Management of Lake Malawi and other African Rift Valley Lakes.

Regina Folorunsho
Institution: Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, NIGERIA
Title of Proposal: An Argo Capacity Building Workshop for the Atlantic Countries of Africa

Abdourahamane Konare
Institution: University of Cocody Abidjan, COTE D’IVOIRE
Title of Proposal: Climatic Feedbacks of Dust and Biomass Burning Aerosol over West Africa.

Emma T. Liwenga
Institution: Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Title of Proposal: Research Protocols for Assessing the Impact of Climate Variability and Change in Rural Tanzania: Water, Food Systems, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Abel Lufafa
Institution: Makerere University, UGANDA
Title of Proposal: Land Use and Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial C Stocks in Uganda’s Cattle Corridor.

Raymond S. Lumbuenamo
Institution:  University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the CONGO
Title of Proposal: Assessment of Land cover degradation following forest harvesting in the Mai-Ndombe and the Lisala Region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Vincent O. Madadi
Institution: University of Nairobi, KENYA
Title of Proposal: Mitigating Phosphorus Load into Lake Victoria Catchment

Mohamed S. Mhita
Institution: Tanzania Meteorological Agency, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Title of Proposal: Proposed workshop to address issues relating to the Prediction and Predictability of East and Southern Africa Climate, May/June 2006, in Tanzania

Irene Naigaga
Institution: Makerere University, UGANDA
Title of Proposal: Environmental Change Assessment in Africa: Seasonal Fluctuation in the Atmospheric and Water Levels of Methane and Nitrous Oxide in Selected Aquatic Ecosystems in Uganda and Nigeria

Ibrah Seidou Sanda
Institution: University Abdou Moumouni, NIGER
Title of Proposal Modeling Land-use-Dust-Climate Feedbacks in West Africa

Gelas Muse Simiyu
Institution:  Moi University, KENYA
Title of Proposal: Greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide and the diminishing water resources in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya

Mark Alexander Tadross
Institution: University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
Title of Proposal: Projected changes in summer climate and the implications for growing maize in southern Africa. 

Tonga Pierre Zoungrana
Institution: University of Ouagadougou, BURKINA FASO
Title of Proposal: Water Management and Food Security in Burkina Faso: a Case Study of the Bagre Dam