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School visit, Incomati delta, Mozambique @Dominique Vinckenbosch
Kenya - video
Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Impacts of Sea Water Intrusion at Kalota, Tana River Delta
The workshop was held on June 17th 2023 at Semikaro Primary School. It allowed scientists, community leaders and community members to share knowledge and to jointly analyse the environmental changes observed in the Kalota section of the Tana River Delta.
It was organised by the DiDEM Project-Kenya, facilitated by the team from the National Museums of Kenya (NMK), French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and the Kenya Wetlands Biodiversity Research Team (KENWEB).
Filmmaker Khamis Ramadhan was able to gather testimonials from workshop participants. Two videos are available:
July 2023
The second SWOT mission to Madagascar took place in April 2023. This 2023 mission was designed to test the SWOT satellite in its short 3-month phase of daily data production, from March to June 2023.
#SWOT satellite #WIODERandDIDEMteam
July 2023
A total of 6 Dialogue Sciences-Décideurs workshops have been held in the Boeny region since 2021.
- Dialogues 1 and 2 focused on the Bombetoka mangrove and on mangroves in coastal protected areas.
- Dialogues 3 and 4 focused on the Ambatoboeny flooding and the silting-up of rice-growing areas in Marovoay.
- Dialogues 5 and 6 focused on flood scenarios in the city of Mahajanga and Dialogue with stakeholders in the Betsiboka delta.
#Dialogue Science Civil Society #dialogue science decision makers #Madagascar
July 2023
The recently created scientific network on Western Indian Ocean National Or International SEamounts, banks, submarine structures (WIO N.O.I.S.E.) held its first Workshop “Multidisciplinary Scientific Approaches to Support Marine Regional Governance in the Western Indian Ocean” in Mauritius from 3 to 5 May 2023. The workshop was hosted by the Department for Continental Shelf, Maritime Zones Administration and Exploration (CSMZAE) of the Prime Minister's Office and by the University of Mauritius (UOM).
June 2023
High Sea
To Explain the relationship between the natural sciences and public decision-making in the governance of marine areas, recalling the provisions of the International Law of the Sea
The 3 training materials that took place on board the S.A. Agulhas II during the Indian Ocean Expedition are now available online:
- Training 1“Basic concepts and divisions of ocean areas" General aspects/ Indian Ocean aspects” (DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.7705826), Auteur : Florence Galletti
- Training 2 - "Remote Marine Environmental Heritage” How to address this crosscutting and emerging issue of biodiversity governance? (DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8029879), Auteur : Florence Galletti
- Training 3 - "MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & LAW OF THE SEA" Discussion upon some modern interactions and difficulties (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8039805), Auteur : Florence Galletti
June 2023
On the program
2pm-4pm: reef games led by project students
4pm-6pm: official opening, presentation of the project, Boléro children's show and prize-giving ceremony
The event is available on the PAREO project FB page: https://www.facebook.com/PareoProject
May 2023
Children from Ndrondroni elementary public school visited the islet of Wenefou, Moheli National Park, for the second time, to observe the coral reef.
4 workshops were offered:
- playing the Polypeï goose board game
- choosing the site for the Marine Educational Area
- learning about the importance of certain underwater species
- snorkeling to observe the reef and its inhabitants.
May 2023
The DIDEM team
Meet with the DIDEM team members!
Nourddine Mirhani
DiDEM coordinator in Comoros
Ravaka Randrianatoandro
PhD. student in geography, Univ. Antananarivo, Madagascar
Peter Ng'ang'a Gitau
PhD. graduated in Geography, Univ. Sorbone, Kenya & France
Katrin Perchat
The Futur of Plastic Waste coordinator in Seychelles
Zamil Maturaf Maanfou
Master Student in the MAB, Univ. Toulouse, France
Dercio Alberto
PhD student in History, Univ. Aix Marseille, France
"Images for a dialogue. Dialogue science-public decision and civil society, for an integrated management of the Betsiboka Delta in Madagascar"
A 28-panel exhibition valuing the photographic reportage that Rijasolo made in September 2022 on the Betsiboka River and the delta nested in its estuary, will be presented in Antananarivo on May 5 and in Mahajanga on May 12.
#Betsiboka #Photo exhibition #Rijasolo
Madagascar
The second SWOT mission will mobilize the DIDEM-Deltas-Madagascar team in April 2023
The second SWOT mission on the Tsirinbihina, the only navigable river in western Madagascar that flows into the Mozambique Channel north of the city of Morondava, will take place from April 2 to 16, 2023. A team of 13 scientists, 7 from France (IRD-LEGOS, CNES, CNRS, INSU, Hydromatters) and 6 from Madagascar (IRD-SENS, CNRE, IOGA) will embark for 9 days of navigation (April 5 to 13), from Miandrivazo to Belo Tsirinbihina. The boat will be equipped with sensors and will tow a slick to perform bathymetry of the riverbed and measure depth, current speed, and cross sections and bank mapping will be completed by zodiac.
This second SWOT mission on the Tsirinbihina River has this time the objective to validate the daily estimates of the SWOT satellite successfully launched in December 2022.
#Observatory #Madagascar #SWOT
On March 21, 2023, the Indian Ocean Expedition's restitution day was held in Monaco. It was an opportunity to look back on this campaign rich in scientific discoveries on board the S.A. Aghulas II.
Leaving Cape Town (South Africa) in early October, the ship made a first stop in Mauritius, before undertaking a circumnavigation in the region passing through Reunion, Aldabra and Mahé in the Seychelles, the Saya de Malha bank, St Brandon, before returning to Mauritius where almost the entire scientific team disembarked.
#Oceanographic Campaign #SayadeMalha
March 2023
Comoros
PAREO in Moheli, here we go!
Moheli is now hosting the PAREO project under Component C of the DIDEM program with the close collaboration of the Moheli National Park. Three schools are involved in this first phase of the project and will work on the establishment of an Educational Marine Area in the commune of Nioumachoi.
#EducationalMarineProtectedArea #PAREO
March 2023
Kenya - Article publication
Evaluating the combined impacts of hydrological change, coastal dynamics and human activity on mangrove cover and health in the Tana River delta, Kenya
By Peter N. Gitau, Stéphanie Duvail, Dirk Verschuren, in "Regional Studies in Marine Science", Volume 61, July 2023
From February 22 to 24, 2023 in Mauritius, DiDEM was invited to the first regional workshop of exchanges and training on environmental education organized by the project "Résilience des Écosystèmes du Sud-Ouest de l’Océan Indien" (RECOS), supported by the Indian Ocean Commission.
#SharingExperiences #EnvironementalEducation
February 2023
Kenya / France
PhD defence Peter Ng’ang’a Gitau
Environmental dynamics of the Tana River delta (Kenya) at multiple time scales: evidence from geomorphology, mangrove assessment, paleoecology and consequences for landscape management
The defence took place online and at the French Institute of Research in Africa (IFRA-Nairobi), on January 18th 2023
January 2023
The coordinators of The Future of Plastic Waste program in Seychelles are committed to educating the younger generation on the issue of plastic pollution and solutions to address the issue.
#RaisingAwareness #PlasticPollution #YoungGenerations
October 2022
The Education Marine Area (EMA) in the Curieuse Marine National Park supported by Monaco Explorations and coordinated by the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) in partnership with the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA), has been inaugurated by Francis Marsac, Monaco Explorations representative, Pascale Chabanet, IRD coordinator of the project PAREO EMA and Anto Suzette; Manager of the Curieuse Marine National Park.
October 28th, 2022
On the occasion of the "Mini symposium DIDEM project/LME SAPPHIRE project", held at WIOMSA 12 in South Africa, entitled "Contribution of marine science in areas beyond national jurisdiction in the Western Indian Ocean to the development of a regional ocean governance strategy", on October 11, 2022, it was decided to launch a multidisciplinary network of researchers on Seamounts, banks, shelves, and other national and international underwater structures (WIO N.O.I.S.E.).
#HighSeas #ResearchersNetwork #WIO
The DIDEM team is pleased to announce its participation in the symposium through the organization of a mini symposium on "The contribution of marine science in areas beyond national jurisdiction in the Western Indian Ocean to the development of a regional ocean governance strategy", by the DiDEM High Sea team as well as through 16 oral and poster presentations on the various themes of the program: deltas, coastal erosion, mangroves or coral reefs.
Global DIDEM
Next destination for Monaco Explorations: the Indian Ocean
The Monaco Explorations, one of DIDEM's main donors, is launching an oceanographic campaign in the western Indian Ocean in the fall of 2022. Part of our team will be on board. Attention, imminent departure!
September 2022
Discover the beauty and the use of the Incomati Estuary through its inhabitants.
This exhibition was made in the framework of the Estuary Festival in Macaneta in October 2021, in partnership with the French Embassy in Mozambique, the Eduardo Mondlane University, the District of Marracuene and the IRD.
October 2021
Integrate scientific knowledge into decision-making
for coastal and marine management
in the Western Indian Ocean
2021-2024
Mohéli, Comores @Nourddine Mirhani