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The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 24^th January. Elise Dujardin will present her doctoral research focusing on modelling urban gullies across Africa. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 13 December. Vicky Bouénitéla will present her research entitled "Unravelling the metamorphic history of the Paléoproterozoic polymetamorphic units of the western domain of the Mayombe chain (West Congo Belt) through an analysis of garnet chemical zoning". Do not miss it!

On Tuesday 3^rd December, Axel Deijns, PhD student at the AfricaMuseum and the VUB, will publicly defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Compounding landslides and flash floods in tropical East Africa A remote sensing perspective". Join us at the AfricaMuseum or online!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 22^nd November. François Toussaint will present his doctoral research focusing on assessing ecosystem changes (2002-2022) in Lake Tanganyika using remote sensing data. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 8 November. Bram Valkenborg will present his doctoral research focusing on extracting impactful hazard events from news articles using Large Language Models. Do not miss it!

Urban gullies are rapidly growing problem in many tropical cities of the Global South. In particular, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been severely affected. Follow the PhD defenses of Eric Lutete Landu (28/11) and Guy Ilombe Mawe (29/11) to learn more on this issue. 

The first geo-webinar of the 2024-2025 season will take place on Tuesday 15 October. Antoine Dille will give a presentation entitled "From Ground to Orbit: Integrating Fieldwork and Satellite Data for Landslide Research in Central Africa". Do not miss it!

The Kivu Citizen Observers report various natural hazards, and record their impacts occurring in eastern DRCongo, a region still under-documented. They are real change makers for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Discover in this News other Citizen Science initiatives and related research developed at the AfricaMuseum. 

A combination of urban growth and flood risk at lower elevations can push people to live in steeper, more dangerous terrain. Read the new study published in Earth’s Future!