Awards won by UPGro work, researchers and collaborators
The Nigerian Mining & Geosciences Society (NMGS) and Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) have awarded Prof. Moshood Tijani, Dr Kirsty Upton, Brighid O‘Dochartaigh and Imogen Bellwood-Howard their 2020 Okezie Prize for ‘Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Nigeria’. . The NMGS/NGSA/OKEZIE…
Read More Africa Groundwater Atlas for Nigeria wins prestigious national award
Huge congratulations to Dr Jacob Katuva (Gro for GooD/University of Oxford) who yesterday passed his viva to secure his PhD on Groundwater and Welfare!
From: http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards The Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards seek to recognise and celebrate exceptional research-led innovations and products at all University levels that are having societal or economic impact. The initiative attracted a total of 78 entries, from which four winners were…
Read More Gro for GooD “Smart Handpumps” wins Oxford University Vice-Chancellor’s Award
On 8th March, Dr Robinah Kulabako, Makerere University and UPGro T-GroUP project, was awarded a Golden Jubilee Media during International Women’s Day by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. The award recognises her contribution to research and teaching in environmental engineering…
Read More Golden Jubilee Award for T-GroUP researcher: Dr Robinah Kulabako
re-posted from GRIPP Roads for Water is integrating road construction and small water infrastructure to harvest rainwater from small catchments for productive use, while reducing road damage and simplifying road maintenance. Improving road drainage design is reducing soil erosion and increasing…
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UPGro Ambassador gives 2017 Ineson Lecture at the Geological Society of London and makes the case for the economic importance of Africa’s aquifers
Dr Kerstin Danert, Skat Foundation, who is a member of the UPGro Knowledge Broker team and Chairs UPGro's Programme Coordination Group (PCG) has been given the "Distinguished Associate Award, 2017" by the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) for her outstanding contribution…
Read More UPGro Knowledge Broker, Kerstin Danert, wins IAH Award
During the first day of the 43rd IAH Congress in Montpellier, France the 2016 Awards of the International Association of Hydrogeologists were announced: "At the Annual General Meeting in the evening, the new Applied Hydrogeology Award was presented to Dr Richard…
We are delighted that Professor Carter, a member of the UPGro Knowledge Broker team and Hidden Crisis project, received the first ever "Applied Hydrogeology Award" from the International Association of Hydrogeologists: 'for “a groundwater professional who has made an outstanding…
Patrick Thomson, from the Oxford-led UPGro project “Gro For Good”, has won the prize for the best poster at World Water Week 2015 for the work that he and colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford have been…
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