EVENTS

A symposium will take place on November 15th, 2024 at Four Points Sheraton, Kigali.

IGCP 767 Project

Symposium: Western Rwanda and its environmental challenges

The full agenda is as follow:
Time
9:30:00-10:00 Welcome and Overview of the research initiatives

10:00 -10:45
  • Magma propagation in a rift zone (Dr. Virginie Pinel, ISTerre, France). On-line
10:45-11 :15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
  • Volcano-hydrothermal systems and lakes (Ass. Prof. Corentin Caudron, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). On-line
12:00-12:45
  • Volcanic gases dispersion (Dr. Silvia Massaro, University of Bari, Italy) on-line
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45
  • Probing fluid-mineral-microorganism interactions in volcanic soils (Dr. Bastien Wild, ISTerre, France). On-line
14:45:15:00
  • Volcanoes and Health (Prof. Catherine Mériaux, ICTP-EAIFR, Rwanda)
15:00-15:45
  • Volcanic soils and Health (Prof. Laurent Charlet, ISTerre, France)
15:45-16:15
  • ICTP-EAIFR Master thesis project presentations
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:25
  • Open discussion: what are the needs of the stakeholders? (in presence & on-line)
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks

On-Line Attendance: Please register by clicking here.

Podoconiosis: a disease linked to soil properties. Where NtDs meet with climate change

Date: Thursday, 7 December 2023

Time: 4:00 PM Rwandan time (UTC+2)

Physical Venue: Conference Room ICTP-EAIFR, Einstein Building, UR-CST Campus, Fifth floor. On-line Platform Zoom: please, register here

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We crossed western Rwanda from south to north for 4 days

From 20 up to 23 November 2023

We crossed western Rwanda from south to north for 4 days, from November 20 to 23, to interact with health workers in the region. Dr. Catherine Meriaux gave four talks in Kibogora, Kibuye, Gisenyi and Musanze to raise awareness of the potential health conditions linked to a volcanic environment both in the context of an eruption but also during periods of apparent rest of the volcanoes. We also presented a questionnaire and received 153 responses.

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What controls where and when magma comes to the surface?

EVENT PASSED

Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management (CoEB)
Special Joint Seminar with
East African Institute for Fundamental Research
The CoEB and ICTP-EAIFR jointly invite you to a seminar to be held in person at UR
Nyarugenge Campus, ICTP-EAIFR, 4th floor of Einstein Building, Room 11.
You are all welcome.
Seminar Title: What controls where and when magma comes to the surface?

Speaker : Dr. Virginie Pinel

About Dr. Virginie Pinel

Speaker : Dr. Virginie Pinel, Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD), France

Biography
Virginie Pinel received the Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de
Paris, Paris, France, in 2002. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Centre National
d’Etudes Spatiales. Since 2004, she has been a Researcher with the Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement (IRD). Her main research interests include remote sensing data application to
volcanoes study and monitoring as well as magma storage and transport modeling. She
pioneered the understanding that surface loads have a critical influence on the stability of magma
chambers and the movement of magma. She is an expert on crustal deformation at volcanoes and
of analytical, analogue and Finite Element Modelling of volcanic processes. She also applied
sequential data assimilation to volcano geodesy

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