Last December's MyCOE/SERVIR fellowship workshop in Nairobi has already been the inspiration for new research work at Rhodes University that integrates geographical technologies with field-based research. Kate and I are presenting a seminar at Linköping University's TEMA-Vatten today (and at Northampton University next week) that looks at extreme weather events in the Sneeuberg Mountains of... Continue Reading →
It is three months since Natalie and I returned from the MyCOE/SERVIR programme in Nairobi. Since then Natalie has started the new academic year - her Honours year - and I have started six months sabbatical leave. But we have been busy with the research programme: acquiring and analysing Landsat, SPOT and Ikonos data for... Continue Reading →
The MyCOE/SERVIR fellows and mentors were taken on a tour of the main Kenyatta University campus by Prof. Onywere (you can see him greeting Dean Shisanya in the picture taken outside the main administration building). Kate and I both lectured at Kenyatta University at the start of our careers (1979 to 1985) so for me it... Continue Reading →
It has been one week of intensive work since the cocktails posting .... so here are my pictures and some quick reflections. Lots of lab work has been done at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development: remote sensing applications, GIS work, mentor presentations. The day has started with the walk from ICIPE... Continue Reading →
Last night we had a small cocktail event on the lawns of the RCMRD centre, Nairobi. It had been a long, but very interesting, opening day listening to each of the students in the MyCOE/SERVIR programme for East Africa presenting their research proposals. Here are a few pictures from my phone of new colleagues relaxing as the... Continue Reading →
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