Geoscience Projects in Ethiopia
General

Guide to Geoscience Departments in the United States and Canada

Addis Ababa University - Department of Geology and Geophysics

The Geological Survey of Ethiopia

GeoAfrica: Directory of African Earth-Science Resources

International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, Netherlands (With online library search program)



Anthropology /Paleontology related

Yale: Vertebrate Paleontology

CWRU: Hominid Fossil Geochronology

Carleton College: Hominid evolution in East Africa

Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas; NSF funded project; Late Cenozoic Rift Sedimentation, Volcanism, and Tectonism in the Northern Afar: Geological Setting for Potential Early Hominid Sites in the Danakil Region, Eritrea (follow the Research link)

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology

Boston University, Department of Archaeology

Arizona State university: Institute of human Origins

University of Wales, Ostracoda Research Group

University of Wales: Quaternary Environmental Change Research Group: Pollen and Charcoal Records of Recent Land-Use Change and Vegetation History in East Africa

Rutgers: Center of Human Evolutionary Studies

Berkeley Mesozoic Vertebrates Upper Blue Nile                Gorge, Ethiopia (with accompanying report)

UT Austin: Geology and Paleontology of the Oligocene Chilga Deposits,Northwest Ethiopia

Arizona State University Geological framework for paleoanthropological research in the Middle Ledi area of the Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
   Prospective graduate students and researchers interested in having a study area in Ethiopia can contact the principal investigators of the various projects.
Geology of Ethiopia
General Geology & Volcanoes
Projects in Ethiopia
Map Remote Sensing
Mineral Resources & Petroleum
Anthropology
Tectonics and Geophysics

EAGLE: Ethiopia-Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment to understand lithospheric structure beneath an active rift zone

School of Earth Sciences, Leeds University: Lithospheric seismic structure in a region of incipient continental break-up: northern Ethiopian Rift

University of Colorado : CIRES Ethiopia Rift Measurements

University of Leicester (UK)
: Continental break-up above a mantle plume: a wide-angle seismic profile across the Ethiopian Rift. (project starting in October- 2002)

Royal Holoway University of London: The thermo-mechanical evolution of magmatic passive margins and newly created oceanic crust is examined in the youthful Southern Red Sea (Ethiopia and Yemen) and Gulf of Aden (Yemen, Oman)

Royal Holoway University of London: Kinematics and Dynamics of Rifting: An Ethiopian Example

Royal Holoway University of London
: PhD RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES 2009/10

ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics
: Integrated studies of the structure and evolution of the lithosphere

Uppsala (Sweden): Earthquake related studies

University Pierre and Marie Curie (France): Tectonics of the East African Rift System

University of  Leicester (UK): Earthquake studies related to the evolution of the Kenyan Rift Valley
Hydrology/Geothermal

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Rural Systems of Eastern Africa Drylands (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania). Strategies for Environmental Rehabilitation

Dr. Tamiru A. Abiye: Hydrogeology of Ethiopia

Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology of Tropical and Subtropical Regions;
University of Tübingen

Hydrology of the Abay River

International Geothermal Organization - Ethiopia

Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environmant Reserach Council UK

University of Helsinki:Department of Geology. Hydrogeology of the East African Rift Valley applied on four specific areas in Kenya and Ethiopia.

The United Nations University
Assist developing countries to build up or strengthen groups of specialists in geothermal exploration and development.

NATIONALGROUND-WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR ETHIOPIA
GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001
Economic Geology

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): The geology, geochemistry and genesis of Legadembi and Moyale gold deposits, Southern Ethiopia.

The Ethionor Program: 1996 - 2001 recognition of exploitable mineral resources. the Ethiopian Institute of Geological Surveys, EIGS and the Geological Survey of Norway, NGU
Geomorphology

Centre for Development and Environmet (CDE): Soil Conservation Research Programme, Ethiopia (SCRP)
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