DRIAR Project
Dry Rifting In the Albertine-Rhino graben, Uganda
Dry Rifting In the Albertine-Rhino graben, Uganda
DRIAR Project News
Congratulations to DRIAR team member Professor Suzan van der Lee for being inducted in the American Geophysical Union as Fellow!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Ms. Asenath Kwagalakwe for winning second place for her Lighting Talk at the National Association for Black Geoscientists conference!
The 2024 DRIAR Training School was held 24-29 June 2024 on the topics of geochemistry, structual geology, and neotectonics.
Congratulations to Dean Estella Atekwana and Professor Suzan van der Lee for being inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
December 2023 | Several DRIAR presentations at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting in San Francisco this year led by Asenath Kwagalakwe, Hillary Mwongyera, Albert Kabanda, and D. Sarah Stamps. Great job DRIAR team!
December 2023 | Asenath Kwagalakwe passed her preliminary exams at Virginia Tech! Congratulations PhD candidate!
August 2023 | Mr. Albert Kabanda serviced seismic stations in Uganda.
July 2023 | Mr. Joseph Nyago and Ms. Joan Nakajigo downloaded GNSS data from DRIAR stations in Uganda.
July 2023 | Dr. D. Sarah Stamps and Mr. Albert Kabanda presented posters about DRIAR project work at the Southern East African Rift System Workshop in Malawi.
June - July 2023 | Mr. Hilary Mwongyera collected geologic data in Uganda.
May 2023 | Ms. Asenath Kwagalakwe presented her geodynamic modeling work at the East African Petroleum and Exhibition 2023 (EAPCE'23) in Kampala, Uganda as a speaker!
March 2023 | A poster was presented on Advances of the DRIAR project: Dry Rifting in the Albertine-Rhino Graben, Uganda at the 2023 GAGE/SAGE Community Science Workshop in Pasadena, CA by PI D. Sarah Stamps.
February 2023 | BIIS and HYDP data collected have been published with the NSF GAGE facility:
Kwagalakwe, Asenath, Nyago, Joseph, Nakajigo, Joan, Stamps, D. Sarah, Tugume, Fred, 2023, Uganda 2023 - BIIS and HYDP, UNAVCO, GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset, https://doi.org/10.7283/AJGM-1951
Stamps, D. Sarah, Tugume, Fred, Nyago, Joseph, Kwagalakwe, Asenath, 2022, Uganda 2022 - BIIS and HYDP, UNAVCO, GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset, https://doi.org/10.7283/FBVR-K683
Jan 2023 | Asenath Kwagalakwe led a team in Uganda to remeasure benchmarks BIIS and HYDP with GPS instrumentation.
Dec 2022 | Several DRIAR team members (PhD students Joy Fuluso, Asenath Kwagalakwe, and Hillary Mwongera + PI Dr. Sarah Stamps presented work at the 2022 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
July 2022 | Structural geology and seismology fieldwork take place in Uganda.
July 12, 2022 | Check out this article about the DRIAR project training school 2022!
July 11-22 2022 | The DRIAR project training school takes place at Makerere University, Uganda.
June 15 2022 | Asenath Kwagalakwe & D. Sarah Stamps have DRIAR poster presentations at SAGE/GAGE
January 2022 | Structural geologic and geodetic fieldwork is underway in Uganda!
December 2021 | PhD students Asenath Kwagalakwe and Hillary Mwongyera, as well as, Associate Professor D. Sarah Stamps give DRIAR project poster presentations at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting