Sentences with phrase «rift valley oserian»

The provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley, Nakuru is the location of Lake Nakuru, a part of the Lake Nakuru National Park and the home of the lake's famous inhabitants.

Developed and optimized protocols for detection of hemorrhagic fever viruses including Filoviruses, Arenaviruses and Bunyaviruses (Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Machupo, CCHF, Rift Valley Fever and others).

Prepare solicitations and provide technical review (including safety and efficacy data) of proposals for avian influenza, classical swine fever, Rift valley fever, and other vaccines.

Stephenson Harwood advised Ambience Ventures Limited on its acquisition of a 34 per cent stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways...

Advised on the initial acquisition of a majority stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways.

Another geothermal hot spot is the Great Rift Valley of Africa, which includes such countries as Kenya and Ethiopia.

Rock layers on the shore had already revealed that the lake has fluctuated in size, filling the entire Jordan Rift Valley during the last Ice Age.

Get some REAL rifting action in the Great Rift Valley.

The long body of Lake Turkana drops down along the Rift Valley from the Ethiopian border, extending 249 kilometers from north to south and 44 km at its widest point with a depth of 30 meters.

ARGeo will use seed money provided by GEF, UNEP, the World Bank and a host of private / public sector investors to expand its drilling activity up and down the Rift Valley, which spans from Mozambique to Djibouti.

UN Supported African Enterprise to Set Up Major Geothermal Facility in East Africa's Rift Valley

After meeting with some initial success in Kenya, where, over the past 3 years, sites have been drilled to identify local hotspots, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), along with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will fund a new entity — the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo)-- to tap into the Rift Valley's vast, unexplored geothermal potential, according to SciDev.Net's Laura Garca.

Climate - Related Exposures and Conditions aka birth defects, melanoma, asthma, Rift Valley fever, occupational health and safety, Malaria, West Nile, GIS - based epidemiology, cholera, dengue..

German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), «African Rift Geothermal Facility (ARGeo),» at www.bgr.de/geotherm/projects/argeo.html, viewed 22 April 2009; U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Hot Prospect — Geothermal Electricity Set for Rift Valley Lift - Off in 2009,» press release (Nairobi: 9 December 2008); Bertani, op.

For example precession has been linked to the rise and fall of the African rift valley lakes and so may have even influenced the evolution of our ancestors.

Neither virus causes fatalities in healthy people, but there are several other arboviral infections (various encephalitis viruses, yellow fever, west Nile fever and Rift Valley fever) carried by the insect as well as a dog roundworm that also infects wild animals and cats.

Finalize and test the prototype Rift Valley Fever disease prediction model.

Development of prototype disease and forage prediction models Work with partners in the development of prototype animal disease for instance Rift Valley Fever (RVF) prediction models.

But momentous things are happening, as the earth is about to enter the ice ages after millions of years of a cooling and drying trend that has started to create savannas in Africa's Rift Valley.

68 Wallace S. Broecker, Dorothy Peteet, Irena Hajdas, Jo Lin, Elizabeth Clark, «Antiphasing between Rainfall in Africa's Rift Valley and North America's Great Basin,» Quaternary Research 50:12 - 20 (1998).

In 2012, a science team from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey discovered a huge, 1 - mile - deep, Grand Canyon - size rift valley beneath the WAIS that does connect directly to a warmer ocean containing an also recently discovered chain of 62 active and semi-active («pulsing») volcanoes.

Carbon Footprint Ltd have received endorsement from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for our reforestation efforts in The Great Rift Valley.

The white - bearded De Brazza's monkeys were found in the Great Rift Valley, a place they had never been spotted before, Richard Leakey, a prominent white Kenyan credited with ending the slaughter of the nation's elephants, told Reuters in Nairobi.

All trees that are planted are native to the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, and will be carefully planted and managed to live their natural lifespan and meet their biodiversity targets.

The Kikuyu escarpment forest with its great mixture of both large and small wildlife animals, birds and butterflies, has been the beautiful gateway to the Great Rift Valley until degradation trend struck.

British scientists have found a remote ice rift valley, up to one mile deep, under the ice in Antarctica.

As reported in the November 11, 2017, TWTW, at least in part, Antarctic ice melt appears to be resulting from geothermal activity below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with over 130 geothermal hot spots identified near a rift valley below the surface.

However, seismic imaging has shown that mantle heat in this region may reach the ice sheet through a rift, that is, a fracture in Earth's crust such as appears in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

Kassie, B.T., S. Asseng, R.P. Rotter, H. Hengsdijk, A.C. Ruane, and M.K. Van Ittersum, 2015: Exploring climate change impacts and adaptation options for maize production in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia using different climate change scenarios and crop models.

He took (and is featured in) the pictures, drilled the cores, and has been studying these rift valley lakes for some time:

In the Greater Horn of Africa, an area comprising parts of ten countries, new climate models are showing accuracy in predicting outbreaks of the cattle disease Rift Valley Fever.

Oh there were some times after: The African rift valley whose radiant heat spawned your kind and the subduction volcanoes around continental rims that gave saber tooth and mammoth like megafauna the edge.

Simon Starling, Project for a Rift Valley Crossing, 2015 - 16 A canoe built to cross the Dead Sea Rift between Israel and Jordan using 90 kg of magnesium produced from 1900 litres of Dead Sea water, Production still the Dead Sea, 2016 (Acquired with the support of the Thornton Bequest)

Sells describes Botswana as a terrain «where the last contours of the Rift Valley shift downwards, tilting ever so slightly, to bring the rains from the highlands of Angola, in the form of an annual flood into the Kalahari sands.

A fine example of this can be found in Janet Biggs's three channel installation, Afar, currently on show at New York's Cristin Tierney gallery, which offers viewers a brief visual sojourn to East Africa's Great Rift Valley — «the most unlivable place on earth.»

His Project for a Rift Valley Crossing (2015 — 16) is included in «Darbyshire, Gander, Pica, Starling» at Heni Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, until 9 April.

Many never before on view, the objects were created by 19th and 20th century artists who lived in cattle herding groups from the Great Rift Valley to the horn of the African continent.

Traversing the Northern circuit normally include exploring the Spectacular Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro crater (considered as the eight natural wonder of the World) which is the only existing unbroken caldera in the world and the stunning rift Valley escarpment.

Said by Hemingway to be the «loveliest (he has seen) in Africa», Lake Manyara is now a designated national park stretching for 50 km along the base of the high Rift Valley escarpment between Ngorongoro and Tarangire.

Situated on the southern shores of Lake Naivasha, the smaller of the only two fresh water lakes in Kenya's Great Rift Valley.

This city is located on a plateau in the Great Rift Valley amidst the Serengeti Plains, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Oludvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park.

Eldoret is located in the Rift Valley region which offers stunning views and a collection of tourist attraction sites and resorts.

Tarangire Treetops sits alone in the private game reserve bordering Tarangire National Park and the Masai Steppe amid rolling, baobab - studded hills, with views to Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley wall.

Welcome to this unique lodge in its spectacular setting on the edge of the Mto Wa Mbu escarpment overlooking the Great Rift Valley and Lake Manyara.

Wildlife Experience Jules Verne Sightseeing Improved Itinerary UNESCO: Great Rift Valley No Single Supplement Solo Group Departure 7 Lunches and 6 Dinners Local Expert Guides Guaranteed Departure Small Group Size: 2 — 6

A traditional seven - night safari visiting Samburu, home to unique wildlife, followed by the Rift Valley Lakes where thousands of pink flamingoes often tint the horizon.

Nestled on the rim of the Great Rift Valley with stunning views over Lake Manyara, Mount Meru, and on a clear day, Mount Kilimanjaro, the lodge is set in lush green gardens, alive with birds.

Inside Lake Nakuru National Park in the Great Rift Valley.

Travel through the Great Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.

Day 4 Travel through the Great Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.