Do not miss the next geo-webinar!
The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 22nd November at 1 pm (Belgian time), via the Teams platform. If you wish to attend, do no hesitate to send an email at caroline.michellier(a)africamuseum.be. After a 20-30 minute presentation, we will have the opportunity to ask questions for another 10-15 minutes. In order not to disadvantage anyone, the oral presentation will be in English or in French, while the slides will be in French or in English inversely.
2024-11-21
NEXT GEO-WEBINAR
François Toussaint
Doctoral student at the Earth and Life Institute of UCLouvain, he will present part of his doctoral research entitled "Assessing ecosystem changes (2002-2022) in Lake Tanganyika using remote sensing data.".
When: Friday 22 November 2024
Where: Teams platform
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Bram Valkenborg
Doctoral student at the Cartography and GIS Research Group of VUB and at the Natural Hazards and Cartography unit of the RMCA, he will present part of his doctoral research entitled "Extracting impactful hazard events from news articles using Large Language Models.".
When: Friday 8 November 2024
Where: Teams platform
Antoine Dille
Post-doctoral researcher at the RMCA, in the framework of the LACTOSE project, he will give a presentation entitled "From Ground to Orbit: Integrating Fieldwork and Satellite Data for Landslide Research in Central Africa".
This presentation will explore how fieldwork and satellite-based approaches can be combined to enhance our understanding of landslide mechanisms and dynamics. By integrating detailed on-the-ground observations with long-term, regional-scale data from satellite imagery, we aim to improve insights into how both natural and human-induced factors contribute to the occurrence and behaviour of slow-moving landslides. Gaining a better understanding of these processes is essential for setting the foundation for effective landslide monitoring, especially in tropical, landslide-prone regions like Central Africa where communities are particularly vulnerable.
When: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Where: Teams platform
Hardy Nkodia
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the Marien Ngouabi University (Congo Brazzaville), in the framework of the GeoRes4Dev project, he will present his recently defended PhD research entitled "Tectonic evolution of the foreland of the Mayombe Range, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo".
When: Friday 21 June 2024
Where: Teams platform
Guy Ilombe
Doctoral student at the Université de Liège in co-tutelle with the Université de Kinshasa and the RMCA, and Chef de travaux at the Université Officielle de Bukavu, he will present a recently published scientific paper entitled "What controls the expansion of urban gullies in tropical environments? Lessons learned from contrasting cities in D.R. Congo".
When: Friday 31 May 2024
Where: Teams platform
Imen Arfaoui
Doctoral student at the Sedimentary Petrology Laboratory of the University of Liège and researcher at the department of Earth Sciences (GeoRes4Dev project) of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, she will present part of her doctoral research entitled "Unconventional hydrocarbon potential of Hot shales in Jeffara Basin North Africa".
When: Friday 12 April 2024
Where: Teams platform
Mercy Ashepet
Doctoral student at RMCA and KUL, she will present part of her doctoral research which aims at answering the question, "Why (dis)engage in citizen science programs?" Understanding the drivers and constraints to participation in citizen science programs in Uganda.
When: Friday 22 March 2024
Where: Teams platform
Jean Claude Maki Mateso
Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro, he will present, on behalf of the CRSN-UOB-MRAC team, the lessons learned and perspectives for disaster risk reduction following the landslide and flash flood event of 4 May 2023 in the village of Bushushu (South Kivu, DR Congo).
When: Friday 23 February 2024
Where: Teams platform
Kivu Citizen Observers
This group of about 20 Congolese Civil Protection representatives, coordinated by the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles (CRSN) in Lwiro and Civil Protection, is active within the framework of the RMCA's HARISSA project and will be online live from Goma to present their activities to collect data and raise awareness of natural hazard disasters in their communities in the provinces of North and South Kivu (DRC).
When: Friday 26 January 2024
Where: Teams platform
Evelyne Safari
Research assistant at the Centre de Recherches Géologiques et Minière (CRGM), PhD student at the University of Burundi and grant holder of the RMCA's GeoRes4Dev project, she will present her doctoral research entitled "Detailed geological map of Idjwi Island, South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo: Contribution to the study of the Karagwe-Ankole chain of Central Africa".
When: Friday 12th January 2024
Where: Teams platform
Axel Deijns
Doctoral student at RMCA and VUB, he will present his doctoral research entitled "Using remote sensing to understand landslide and flash flood event occurrence in a changing tropical East Africa".
When: Friday 31st March 2023
Where: Zoom online platform
Inge Cools
Doctoral student at KULeuven and UGhent, she will present her doctoral research entitled "Ore-forming processes of gold mineralization in Central Africa – Imonga and Namoya mineralization in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo".
When: Friday 10th March 2023
Where: Zoom online platform
Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and chef de travaux of the department of Geology of the University of Goma, he will present his doctoral research entitled "Volcanic risk mitigation paradox in Goma: insights into risk perception and coping behavior before and after the eruption of Nyiragongo in 2021 (Eastern DR Congo)".
When: Friday 10th February 2023
Where: Zoom online platform
Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the University of Ghent and chef de travaux of the geology department of the Official University of Bukavu, he will present his doctoral research entitled "Weathering, rock type, bedrock incision and landslides in an extremely rapidly incised tropical river: the Ruzizi gorge in the Kivu Rift”.
When: Friday 20th January 2023
Where: Zoom online platform
Tony Kayembe-Kitenge
Research assistant at the Toxicology and Environmental unit of Lubumbashi University and at the Higher institute of Medical Techniques (Lubumbashi), he will present his research entitled "Metal exposure and birth defects in the Katanga Copperbelt (D.R. Congo)”.
When: Friday 16th December 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Clemence Idukunda
Doctoral student at the University of Namur and the Royal Museum for Central Africa, with the scientific support of the Department of Geography of the University of Rwanda and INES-Ruhengeri, she will present her research entitled "Preliminary assessment of community vulnerability to landslides and floods in northwestern Rwanda”.
When: Friday 18th November 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Jos Subira
Researcher at the Goma Volcano Observatory, and doctoral student at the University of Liège, the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Natural hazards unit) and European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology (ECGS/MNHN), he will present his PhD research activities in the framework of seismic monitoring in the Virunga volcanic province (DR Congo).
When: Friday 24th June 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Pascal Sibomana
Doctoral student at the University of Liège (Department of Geography), the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Natural hazards unit) and INES-Ruhengeri (Department of Civil Engineering), he will present his research entitled "Landslides distribution in the changing landscapes of Northern-western provinces of Rwanda”.
When: Friday 6th May 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Jean Nsabimana
Research assistant at the University of Burundi and doctoral student at the University of Namur (Department of geography) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa, he will present his research entitled "Exposure to past disasters related to hydrological hazards: the case of Bujumbura city, Burundi”.
When: Friday 22th April 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Eric Lutete Landu
Chef de travaux at the University of Kinshasa and doctoral student at the University of Liège (Faculty of Sciences), he will present his research entitled "How can we control urban gully erosion? Lessons learned from successes and failures”.
When: Friday 11th March 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
John Sekajugo
Doctoral student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Mountains of the Moon University and the Mbarara University of Science and Technology, he will present his research entitled "Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda”.
When: Tuesday 22nd February 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Ephrem Kamathe
Doctoral student at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, the Goma Volcano Observatory, the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the University of Goma, he will present his research entitled "Magma diversity under Nyamulagira volcano, D.R. Congo”.
When: Friday 4th February 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Axel Deijns
Doctoral student at the Natural Hazards service of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and in the Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he will present his research entitled "Understanding landslide and flash flood patterns in tropical East Africa through the use of remote sensing”.
When: Friday 14th January 2022
Where: Zoom online platform
Louise Delhaye
Researcher at the Natural Hazards service of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and in the Cartography and GIS research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she will present her research entitled "Structure-from-motion photogrammetry: application to the study of the Nyiragongo lava lake (DRC)”.
When: Friday 17th December 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Nicholus Mboga
Recently graduated as a doctor of Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), he will present his PhD research, entitled “Deep learning techniques for generation of baseline data from historical panchromatic orthomosaics for long-term urbanization studies”.
When: Friday 26th November 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Désiré Kubwimana
Doctoral student at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat (Morocco) and University of Burundi, he will present part of his PhD research, entitled “Characteristics and distribution of landslides in the hillslopes of Bujumbura (Burundi)”.
When: Monday 8 November 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Jean Claude Maki Mateso
Doctoral student at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and research associate at the Department of Geophysics of the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro (RDCongo), he will present his PhD research, entitled "Living on landslide: land use on unstable slopes in a rural environment of the Rift flanks west of Lake Kivu in Kalehe region (DR Congo)".
When: Friday 1 October 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Hardy Nkodia
Doctoral student in tectonics and structural geology at the RMCA and the Marien Ngouabi University (Congo Brazzaville), he will present a part of his PhD research, entitled "Les failles et les plis comme clés du développement multisectoriel au Congo Kinshasa et Congo Brazzaville".
When: Friday 1 October 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Guy Ilombe
Doctoral student at the RMCA, the Official University of Bukavu, the University of Kinshasa and the University of Liège, he will present his research entitled "Quantifying the impacts of urban gullying at the scale of the Democratic Republic of Congo".
When: Friday 25 June 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
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Christian Kalikone
Doctoral student at the RMCA, the Official University of Bukavu, the University of Burundi and the University of Ghent, and researcher at the Geology Department of the Official University of Bukavu, he will present his research focusing on "Petrographic and cartographic study of the Kalehe, Idjwi and Nyangezi_Kamanyola sectors (South Kivu, DRC)".
When: Friday 18 June 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Théo Mana (CRSN-Lwiro) and Thomas Gérard (ULiège)
One year of data collection on natural disasters by the Kivu Citizen Observers: what results for which perspective?
When: Friday 21 May 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
GeoRiskA at e-EGU 2021
Presentation of the researches of the GeoRiskA team and collaborators at the EGU on-line conference.
When: 26 to 30 April 2021
Where: On-line on the EGU2021 website
Arthur Depicker
Doctoral student at the KU Leuven, he will present his PhD research, entitled "Deforestation and landslide risk in the Kivu Rift: a brief history (1958-2016)".
When: Friday 9 April 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Antoine Dille
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he will present his PhD research, entitled "Remote sensing of slow moving landslides in the tropics: natural and anthropogenic controls", which will be publicly defend on 25 March 2021.
When: Friday 19 March 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Violet Kanyiginya Twagira
Doctoral student at the RMCA, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda, she will present her research entitled "Inventory and preliminary assessment of natural hazards in Kigezi highlands, South Western Uganda".
When: Friday 26 February 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Blaise Mafuko
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and chef de travaux at the Geology Department of the University of Goma, he will present the latest advances in his research "Demographic control of volcanic risk perception: case of Goma, DR Congo (Preliminary results)".
When: Friday 5 February 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo
Doctoral student at the RMCA and the University of Ghent and chef de travaux of the geology department of the Official University of Bukavu, he will present this first webinar entitled "Landslides, river incision and environmental changes: the Ruzizi gorge in the Kivu Rift".
When: Friday 15 January 2021
Where: Zoom online platform
