You are invited to a presentation by John van Thuyne on
Friday, 23rd May at 1030am in the Seminar room. John van Thuyne is a researcher
at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in the Faculty of Geosciences. He
came to Botswana in 1992 and founded Okavango People Wildlife Trust, after six
years of operation he handed over activities of the Trust to Conservation
International.
John came back to Botswana in 2010 and started setting up
a Research Center in the Chobe Enclave. Construction of the Center is reaching
completion and they plan to be open in June this year. The aim and goal of this
facility is to welcome any scientists from Botswana or abroad to come and use
this interdisciplinary center in order to fulfill field work research in
different domains such as : geology, biology or anthropology. The concept is to
go out there, gather material and data, sample it and then exchange and share
between scientists from different horizons. The Center has partnerships with
several universities amongst them UB, Wits University, the University College of
London, the University of Lausanne and Penn state University in the US.
John van Thuyne hopes to use this opportunity to interact
with ORI researchers and identify possible areas of collaboration, grants
opportunities from Switzerland and elsewhere, financial support for common
projects, propositions of research topics to be under taken in the area.
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