Stéphanie DEFOSSEZ Assistant professor INSHS, UMR LAGAM, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier stephanie.defossez[at]univ-montp3.fr Personal page Agro-pastoral Maasai communities now living with tourism live close to Ol Doinyo Lengai (OLD), an active stratovolcano located in the East African Rift in northern Tanzania. The renewed activity of the volcano raises the question of crisis management strategies to reduce…
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Anne DELAGNES CNRS senior Researcher INEE, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux anne.delagnes[at]u-bordeaux.fr Personal page I am a prehistorian who performs archaeological research along the eastern African Rift system in order to reconstruct the dynamics of human settlement in relation to the emergence of new technical practices, new behavioural skills and related paleoenvironments, from the…
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Christiane DENYS Professor INEE, UMR 7205, ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité MNHN, Paris christiane.denys[at]mnhn.fr Personal page Plio-Pleistocene rodents evolution in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and palaeoenvironmental analyses. Taphonomic studies of small mammals assemblages from modern owl and diurnal raptors pellets (establishement of a reference collection). Expertises / Field of study Evolution Paleoenvironment Paleontology Countries of…
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Jacques DÉVERCHÈRE Professor INSU, UMR 6538 Géocéans, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) jacdev[at]univ-brest.fr Personal page Expertises / Field of study Geophysics Risks Tectonic Countries of activity in the Rift Tanzania GDR Rift partners University of Dar Es salaam, Geology Department, Tanzania GDR Rift research theme Training / Education Search for GDR Rift members by Institute…
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Jean-Baptiste FOURVEL CNRS Researcher INEE, UMR 7269 LAMPEA, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique Aix-en-Provence jbfourvel[at]yahoo.com Personal page My research addresses the role of predation and competition pressure between hominin and carnivore and their fundamental roles in the evolution of the paleoecological status of Hominins (from prey and opportunistic collector to predator). My research fields…
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Stéphanie GAUTIER-RAUX Assistant professor INSU, IGS, Géosciences, Université de Montpellier stephanie.gautier-raux[at]umontpellier.fr Personal page I implement seismological approaches to characterize the parameters controlling the location of the deformation in the northern Tanzanian divergence (tectonics, inherited structure, magmatism…), to estimate their contributions in the different stages of the continental breakup, as well as their possible interactions. I…
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Alain GHIO Research Engineer CNRS INSHS, UMR 7309 LPL, Université Aix-Marseille alain.ghio[at]lpl-aix.fr Personal page Expertises / Field of study Linguistic Countries of activity in the Rift Tanzania GDR Rift research theme The Rift heritages Training / Education Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises / Field of study Countries of…
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Patrick GIRAUDOUX Professor INEE, UMR 6249 Chrono-environnement Université de Franche Comte patrick.giraudoux[at]univ-fcomte.fr Personal page Expertises / Field of study Ecology Countries of activity in the Rift Congo GDR Rift Research theme Systems dynamics Training / Education Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises / Field of study Countries of activity…
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Sonia HARMAND Research Professor INEE, UMR 5608,Laboratoire TRACESUniversité Toulouse Jean Jaurès sonia.harmand[at]univ-tlse2.fr Personal page Sonia Harmand is an archaeologist and the director of the Mission Préhistorique au Kenya / West Turkana Archaeological Project in Kenya. Her research focuses on reconstructing the skills and cognition of the earliest tool-making hominins in Africa, and particularly pre-Homo species.…
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Benoît HAZARD CNRS Researcher INSHS, UMR 8177 CNRS/EHESS, Paris benoit.hazard[at]ehess.fr Personal page Benoit Hazard is working on anthropo-scenes in Africa. Research are based on two ethnographic sets: the invention of “modern water” in the wells system of pastoralists groups (Chalbi Desert, North Kenya); the study of the socio-ecological changes due the energy transition in the…
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