Category: BRAVE: Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater

  • BRAVE presented at Fifth iLEAPS Science Conference, Oxford, September 11-14

    BRAVE was featured in a presentation by Dr Peter Cook at the Fifth Annual iLEAPS (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study Conference.  iLEAPS is a global research project of Future Earth.  This year’s theme, “Understanding the impact of land-atmosphere exchanges,” organised by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology of the National Environment Research Council. Dr Cook presented recent…

  • Manage what you measure: Better groundwater monitoring comes to West Africa
    Manage what you measure: Better groundwater monitoring comes to West Africa

    re-posted from BRAVE by David MacDonald, British Geological Survey A key component of water resource management is the sound scientific understanding of water flows and storage. Where water supplies are sourced through wells and boreholes in the underlying rocks, we need to understand the volumes of water stored there and how natural climate variability and…

  • BRAVE update 3 (Jul/Aug)

    BRAVE Newsletter Don’t forget to check out the BRAVE Website for additional blog posts, research information and supporting documentation. ~Happy reading! N’oubliez pas de consulter le site Web de BRAVE pour obtenir des publications supplémentaires, des informations de recherche et des documents à l’appui. ~ Bonne lecture! Partner Updates British Geological Survey Students from 2iE and…

  • Reaching out with Radio — BRAVE’s radio programmes for African farmers

    Radio is arguably one of the most important, cost-effective sources of information for the majority of rural farmers in Africa. Along with farmer field listening groups and multi-stakeholder groups agri-educational radio programming addresses the training needs of smallholders by establishing a dialogue directly with rural farming populations, delivering live, relevant and real-time updates on issues […]…

  • BRAVE: New climate change forecasts for West Africa

    via BRAVE Represented at the 4th PRESASS Regional Climate Outlook Forum in Accra, Ghana, May 15-19 — BRAVE BRAVE team members Professor Ros Cornforth, Professor Aondover Tarhule, Dr Galine Yanon and Aaron Aduna attended the PRESASS Forum organised by Agrhymet Regional Centre of Niamey, the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and the Ghana…

  • BRAVE presentation at the 9th Internationale Conference on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation

    re-blogged from BRAVE Dr Galine Yanon presented a paper at the 9th Internationale Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: communicating and collaborating for resilient solutions to climate change, at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK April 21-22, 2017.  The conference had more than 70 participants from 26 countries. Dr Yanon presented the paper, Local governance of…

  • Piecing together Africa’s groundwater history
    Piecing together Africa’s groundwater history

    The UPGro programme, supported by AfriWatSan & ESPRC, conducted a pan-African capacity-strengthening and knowledge co-production workshop at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania from the 10th to 12th of February, 2017. 40 participants from 12 countries in Africa took part and analysed multi-decadal, groundwater-level data (“chronicles”) from 9 countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana,…

  • A BRAVE new approach to community climate resilience
    A BRAVE new approach to community climate resilience

    re-posted from UPGro BRAVE The Fifth International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS 5) is the premier global event for Climate Services Partnership in Africa.  This year’s conference will take place in Cape Town, from February 28 until March 2, 2017, and focuses on capacity building and forging connections, with a particular focus on activities and persistent…

  • a BRAVE new world…now online
    a BRAVE new world…now online

    The UPGro Consortium project, BRAVE has launched a brand new website to show case the fantastic work that the team – led by Reading University, in the UK is doing. BRAVE, or to use its more descriptive-but-not-so-catchy name: “Building understanding of climate variability and environmental change into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers…

  • Invitation to the The Walker Institute “Big Event”

    We are delighted to invite you to The Walker Institutes ‘Big Event’ at the University of Reading on Wednesday 14 December 2016.  An occasion not to be missed, the event will showcase creative and entertaining approaches to communicating about climate change challenges.  This is an opportunity to network with Walker Institute researchers and our partners…