The Australian Fires: Lessons for Kenya on Preparedness and Adaptation

Jan
22
January 22, 1:00 pm
Where

Wangari Maathai Institute Campus, Nelson Mandela Conference Hall

The Australian Fires: Lessons for Kenya on Preparedness and Adaptation

Where

Wangari Maathai Institute Campus, Nelson Mandela Conference Hall

About the Speaker

Mercy Ndalila is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania, Australia, studying fire ecology. Her current research is on the 2013 Forcett-Dunalley wildfire which caused the near-destruction of Dunalley township in southeast Tasmania. Mercy obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Botany/Zoology at the University of Nairobi. She then acquired a Master of Science degree in Conservation Biology at the same institution and proceeded to work for the East African Natural History Society for three years.

Her desire for learning led her to study for another joint Master’s degree in Geo-information Science at Lund University, Sweden and University of Twente, the Netherlands. This broadened her expertise to include GIS and remote sensing, as well as ecosystem and climate modelling. Mercy’s PhD has further expanded her skills to include fire ecology and pyro-geography

Mercy has always had a passion for imparting knowledge. She plans to use her 13 years’ experience in biodiversity conservation and research to improve fire research and management in Kenya. Outside of work, she is a probationary volunteer firefighter with the Lenah Valley Fire Brigade; a founding member of the Society of African Students at the University of Tasmania, and the Society of Kenyans in Tasmania.

Event contact information


Tel: +254 704 739 039 / +254 714 986 104
Email: wmi@uonbi.ac.ke