Secondments
Dr Madina Doumbia, a physicist from Côte d’ivoire, recently spent 3-months on secondment at the Laboratoire d’Aérologie (LAERO), CNRS/University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS), France. Madina is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, at the Université Péléforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC), Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire, and an associate researcher […]
Secondments
George Macharia, a principle chemist at the National Water Harvesting & Storage Authority (NWHSA), Kenya, recently spent 3 months on secondment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus Alpin in Garmisch, Germany. George Macharia is the manager of the Environment and Social Safeguards Division at NWHSA. He is actively involved in research on water […]
Secondments
Pr Pieter van Zyl and Dr Kerneels Jaars, atmospheric chemists from the North-West University (NWU), South Africa, recently spent one month on secondment at the Aerology Laboratory (LAERO), CNRS/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS) mixed research unit, France, as part of the INSA project. Pieter and Kerneels co-lead the Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group (ACRG) […]
Secondments
Dr Suzanne Jacobs, research associate at the Centre for International Development and Environmental Research at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) in Germany, recently spent a month on secondment at the Mazingira Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Mazingira is an environmental research and educational facility established by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Research at […]
Events
Dr Madina Doumbia and Dr Adama Bakayoko, from the University Felix Houphouet Boigny (UFHB), Côte d’Ivoire, recently participated in the 2022 Désertif’Actions summit, held in Montpellier from the 5th to the 8th of October. The meeting brought together NGOs, scientists, local authorities, international institutions, as well as actors from the private and public sectors to […]
Secondments
After a first 10-day exploratory secondment in February 2022, Dr Fabrice Gangneron (GET) and Dr Mehdi Saqalli (GEODE) returned to Côte d’Ivoire in November to continue their research. This second secondment, lasting 3 weeks, was an opportunity to complete a second field mission, in the commune of Bodokro to the east of Bouaké. They had […]
News
The INSA coordination team, Dr Claire Delon (LAERO, CNRS), Dr Corinne Galy-Lacaux (LAERO, CNRS) and Pr Dominique Serça (LAERO, Paul Sabatier University), recently spent two weeks in Kenya to begin preparations for the next INSA workshop, to be held in October 2023. The team met with Dr Sonja Leitner from ILRI, Kenya; Dr Gretchen Gettel […]
News
In their recent publication in Nature Food, Jaber Rahimi (Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and co-authors find that shifting herd composition in north sub-Saharan Africa’s (NSSA) drylands by decreasing cattle and increasing the proportion of goats and camels can secure milk production while decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water […]
Events
On Saturday 15 October, the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees (OMP) in Toulouse, France, is opening its doors to the public for a day of workshops, demonstrations and mini-conferences that will allow people to discover a plethora of research projects related to the sciences of the universe and the environment. Subjects range from the small fish of the […]