From klance_remote at yahoo.com Mon Jun 1 12:50:56 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Sida-sponsored water management courses, Rwanda & Zambia Message-ID: <964273.70024.qm@web53610.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://www.siwi.org/trainingprogramme/twm ? Transboundary Water Management for the Lake Victoria Region In Rwanda, October 26 - November 6, 2009 & in Sweden, February 22-26, 2010 Application deadline: June 15, 2009 The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) will cover the participation fee and accommodation cost. International travel costs to and from the meeting in Rwanda are not covered by Sida. The participants shall find funding and make their own travel arrangements from their home country to Rwanda.Eligible countries: Burundi, DRC,?Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda For more information please contact: Mr. Anton Earle, SIWI: anton.earle at siwi.org Mr. Bjorn Hansson, Ramboll: bjorn.hansson at ramboll.se Course Brochure, http://www.siwi.org/documents/Training_Prog/LV_TWM_2009.pdf ? Application Form, http://www.siwi.org/documents/Training_Prog/LV_TWM_application_2009.pdf -------- ? http://www.siwi.org/trainingprogramme/IWRM ? Integrated Water Resources Management? for the Zambezi Riparian Countries In Sweden, September 28 - October 16, 2009 In Southern Africa, from February 8-19, 2010 The objective of the training programme is to build capacity for supporting and consolidating the development process of IWRM in the riparian countries of the Zambezi River Basin, including cross border collaboration. The programme shall encourage and stimulate the participants to become involved in dialogue and regional networking on IWRM. Eligible Countries: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe Application deadline: June 5, 2009 For more information, please contact: Mr. Tomas Andersson, Ramboll Natura: tomas.andersson at ramboll.se Mr. Anton Earle, SIWI: anton.earle at siwi.org Course Brochure, http://www.siwi.org/documents/Training_Prog/IWRM_Zambezi_2009-Brochure.pdf Nomination form, http://www.siwi.org/documents/Training_Prog/IWRM_Zam_2009-Nomination_Form.doc ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090601/790d693e/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Tue Jun 2 08:57:38 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SDI-Africa] 2nd Ecological Society for Eastern Africa (ESEA) Annual Scientific Conference 2009 Message-ID: <404486.60145.qm@web53607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://www.ecsea.org/pdfs/ESEA_Call_for_Papers.pdf 2nd Ecological Society for Eastern Africa (ESEA) Annual Scientific Conference 2009 16-20 June 2009 Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Theme: Challenges in Sustainable use of Natural Resource in Eastern Africa The Ecological Society for Eastern Africa (ESEA, http://www.ecsea.org/), through support from the British Ecological Society (BES), is planning to hold its 2nd Scientific Conference that will address ecological issues in the Eastern African Region. 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The training targeted users of GIS in the field in conservation work, its aim was to help users become familiar with the use of GIS as a conservation tool and how to use it in mapping issues of importance in conservation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090602/12e02e4b/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Tue Jun 2 18:26:42 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SDI-Africa] job: GIS/Statistical Modeler (part time) (deadline 22 June) Message-ID: <771432.2097.qm@web53611.mail.re2.yahoo.com> [Source: SCGIS-Kenya List] Position: Geographic Information System Analyst Location: Can work from your home base, with some travel expected Terms: Part time, independent contract position working with EcoAdapt and the African Wildlife Foundation Salary: TBD. Tasks will be completed subject to deadlines of subcomponents of the project following a schedule determined by the consultant and EcoAdapt/AWF.? Upon inquiry, and submission of a cv or resume, suitable candidates will receive a detailed scope of work.? EcoAdapt/AWF will request a bid along with a 1-2 page proposal of methods that will be used to complete the scope of work from qualified candidates. Duration: Immediate to 31 July 2010 GENERAL DESCRIPTION ? ? ? ? ? ? The GIS Analyst will play an important role within the African Wildlife Foundation-EcoAdapt project "The Implications of Global Climate Change for Mountain Gorilla Conservation in the Albertine Rift."? The foundation of this project is a multi-stakeholder assessment of the implications of global climate change to mountain gorilla conservation in the Albertine Rift, East Africa. The GIS Analyst (Analyst) will work closely with the project team to create and maintain a geo-referenced database of numerous gorilla, forest, protected area, and regional environmental condition parameters, and perform customized statistical (spatial and temporal) analyses including creating models of relevant scenarios, and informative, easy-to-read data presentation tools. SOME ESSENTIAL and DESIRED SKILLS AND BACKGROUND: *??????Demonstrable command of appropriate GIS (ESRI ArcGIS preferred) and relevant statistical software, proven GIS data management skills, solid database skills, and experience with relational database systems. *? ? ? Familiarity with general environmental, ecological, geological, and biological processes. Experience working with environmental and GIS issues in the Albertine Rift region is a plus. *? ? ? Experienced and inventive with mathematical and statistical spatial analyses of complex data sets in GIS unique to the field of landscape ecology, and possess sufficient programming skills to create the necessary customized mathematical algorithms. *? ? ? Masters or PhD degree in either biology, ecology, environmental science, conservation biology, forestry, or similar, with training in GIS and at least 4 years' experience applying these combined skills. Please send cover letter and curriculum vitae or resume to Tasha Belfiore at careers at ecoadapt.org?.? Inquiries will be considered as they are received, if possible by June 15; final proposals will not be considered after June 22, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These scholarships are offered under the research project "EOIA: An Earth Observation- and Integrated Assessment approach to the Governance of Lake Naivasha" is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research under the WOTRO -Global Science for Development Programme. The research aims at enhancing sustainability in management of water resources and the environment using Lake Naivasha as a pilot case and adopting Integrated Assessment approach to generate lessons and best practices which can be replicated in other catchments in Kenya and in the East Africa region. Major inputs to the assessment include participatory processes and physical and economic models combined with data derived from remote sensing techniques. In the framework of this project five PhD candidates will be recruited for the following projects. Quantifying the effect of landuse change in upper catchments of Lake Naivasha on water quantity and quality of the Lake - Tenable at ITC/Twente Impact of exogenous and endogenous changes on limnology, fisheries and piscivorous birds ? Tenable at Egerton University Kenya Hydrological impacts on terrestrial fringe biodiversity-Tenable at ITC/Twente Water governance ? Tenable at University of? Nairobi Socio-economic linkages ? Tenable at ITC/Twente For a detailed description of the project interested candidates may consult http://www.itc.nl/research/themes/gisa/projects/_docs/EOIA_Lake_Naivasha.pdf. The project also offers one Post Doctoral Position The candidate for this position will take up the challenge to integrate the results from the five sub-projects and build the Integrated Assessment framework. 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In recent years, a number of new developments have considerably improved our ability to study weather systems in remote and data sparse areas like the Sahara. These include new satellite products (e.g. MISR, CALIPSO, Meteosat; numerical weather prediction models with explicit deep moist convection, improved analysis datasets (e.g. ERA-Interim) and several recent field campaigns such as the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) and the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA). Currently, there are plans for a new UK/French/German research programme called FENNEC. This PhD project will for the first time systematically explore the nature of Soudano-Saharan depressions making use of analysis and satellite data, measurements form field campaigns and numerical models. Contact: Peter Knippertz, p.knippertz at leeds.ac.uk, to discuss the position informally. 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The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), an inter-governmental organization situated in Nairobi, Kenya ( www.rcmrd.org?) is currently engaged in carrying out a survey on the use of Remote Sensing for Agricultural Monitoring in Africa. ? The purpose of this email is to request you to pass this invite to your large network of geo-scientist asking those among them undertaking activities in this line to contact us. We are currently compiling a list of interviewees for which we very much desire to include them and further interact with them during the survey phase. The interviewees will be drawn from International Organizations (including any agencies based outside Africa but working in Africa), Government Agencies, Private Companies and Consultants, Universities and Research Organizations, and Individuals, among others. ? Key elements of the survey will touch on knowing how they are using RS in agricultural monitoring, their experiences and shortcomings. ? 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The forms in English, French, and Spanish and the current OECD eligibility list can be found on the Ramsar web site. The last deadline for submission of proposals is 30 June 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090611/d79c2cfc/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Thu Jun 18 07:43:34 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SDI-Africa] SADC Regional Conference on Sustainable Land Management Message-ID: <820889.52868.qm@web53604.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://www.met.gov.na/dea/cpp/Conference%20.pdf SADC Regional Conference on Sustainable Land Management Sustainable Land Management in the Dry lands of Southern Africa: the Practicalities 7-11 September 2009 Windhoek Namibia. Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 19, 2009. The Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET)/Country Pilot Partnership Programme for Integrated Sustainable Land Management (ISLM). programme will provide financial support to a limited number of participants; as such authors and contributors are encouraged to seek funding to attend the conference in advance. The Sub-themes include: SUB-THEME 1: Innovation in ISLM SUB-THEME 2: Towards climate change adaptation in ISLM SUB-THEME 3: Governance for ISLM (Institutions) SUB-THEME 4: Knowledge and information management systems for ISLM SUB-THEME 5: Biofuels and Land degradation (theory and practice) SUB-THEME 6: Advances in communication awareness and information dissemination with respect to ISLM (poster materials) Contact: Ms. Birga Ndombo,?bndombo at cppnam.net,?and cc Ms Linda Fillemon,?lindafillemon at cppnam.net & Mr. Chris Tjitjahura,?ctjitjahura at cppnam.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference is co-organised by ESRI Eastern Africa, the GIS Society of Ethiopia and the Information, Sciences & Technology Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Users of ESRI software are invited to present a paper which will showcase the use of ESRI software in their particular field of work and/or further the science of GIS. All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication in the conference proceedings. Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090625/66deb9f6/attachment.htm From christian_crepeau at yahoo.com Fri Jun 26 10:04:59 2009 From: christian_crepeau at yahoo.com (Christian Crepeau) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SDI-Africa] The TerrAfrica Knowledge Base is now operational Message-ID: <521806.47449.qm@web52303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> The TerrAfrica Knowledge Base is now operational: http://knowledgebase.terrafrica.org/ ? The Knowledge Base is an interactive website developed by the TerrAfrica Partnership to facilitate the access, the exchange and methodical accumulation of key knowledge to implement Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Africa.? Information resources available on the site include text documents, multimedia documents, maps, statistics and websites, both in English and French. Users can access information using a simple free-text search or by more advanced options such as searching by country, TerrAfrica activities, keywords, etc.? Registred users can also add new resources, browse the community directory and post messages in the forum. The Knowledge Base connects SLM stakeholders, fosters collaboration and promotes the scaling-up of SLM practices across Africa.? ? The TerrAfrica Partners are the World Bank, FAO, UNCCD, NEPAD: http://www.terrafrica.org/ ? La Base Connaissance TerrAfrica est d?sormais op?rationnelle: http://knowledgebase.terrafrica.org/ ?La Base Connaissance TerrAfrica est un site web interactif d?velopp? par le Partenariat TerrAfrica pour faciliter la diffusion, l??change et l?accumulation m?thodique de connaissances cl?s pour le d?veloppement de la Gestion Durable des Terres (GDT) en Afrique. Les ressources informationnelles disponibles sur ce site comprennent des documents texte et multimedia, des cartes, des statistiques et des portails, ? la fois en langue anglaise et fran?aise. Les utilisateurs peuvent acc?der aux informations en utilisant du texte libre ou des options plus avanc?es telles que la recherche par pays, par activit? TerrAfrica, par mots cl?s?.Les utilisateurs enregistr?s peuvent ?galement ajouter de nouvelles ressources, parcourir le r?pertoire communautaire et poster des messages dans le forum. La Base de Connaissance met en relation les partenaires de la GDT, incite aux collaborations et promeut l?am?lioration des pratiques li?es ? la GDT sur le sol africain. -------------------------- Dr. Christian CREPEAU GIS, Remote Sensing, Mapping, Metadata Opensource Geospatial Data -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Twenty-five places are available for this course, with a matching number of NFP fellowships for eligible candidates. These fellowships cover costs related to travelling, accommodation, insurance, excursions and course fees. Application deadline: July 15, 2009. http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/course_descriptions/C09-WRS-RC-01.aspx? Use of low cost earth observation data in environmental and climate monitoring applications: taking further the African Union - AMESD initiative, Butare, Rwanda, starting 5 October 2009 (2 weeks). A number of fellowships are available for eligible candidates. Application deadline: August 20, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090629/a5c92b1e/attachment.htm