This post is a continuation from “An Ethiopian Road Trip” and forms part of my PhD studying the palaeodrainage of the Nile and the delta cone sediments. One of our first tasks in undertaking this provenance study was to characterise each source area of the river Nile in order to identify its signature down-stream in […]
Sallie Burrough is Trapnell Fellow of African Environments in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. By a strange twist of chance, in the dry July months of 2005 I found myself in a remote corner of Botswana asking my brother (who lived there and probably went there to escape the irritations of […]
Laura Fielding is a PhD student at Lancaster University documenting the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River. You can read more about her research here. In January 2011 I set off on what was to be the first of four field trips as part of my PhD studying the provenance of the Nile delta cone sediments. Modern […]
Ria is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Natural History Museum in London who uses new physical and chemical analytical methods to characterize modern-day primitive soils and mineral substrates associated with cryptogamic ground covers – You can read more about here research here.
Helen is working on a PhD at the University of Glasgow with a focus on geothermal energy in the East African Rift. Read more about Helen here.
