Code
01GA2313
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 October 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Condensed matter physics and nanophysics
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience
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Social sciences
- Social and cultural anthropology
Keywords
East African
aquatic ecology
paleclimatology
paleohydroglogy
paleoecology
climate change
limnology
Project description
This CRA aims to improve understanding of the temporal distribution and causes of climate variability in equatorial East Africa at inter-annual to millennial time scales, and of their impacts on the region's ecosystems and human environment. For this purpose we apply methods of paleoenvironmental reconstruction to a uniquely long and high-quality archive of past climate and environmental history contained in the bottem sediments of lake Challa near Mt. Kilimanjaro