MSU Geography Department interest

[Informal discussion with David Campbell and Jenny Olsen of the MSU/ILRI/LUCID project genereated some interest. See comments by DJC below...]

Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:07:20 -0400
To: Harvey Croze
From: "David J. Campbell"
Subject: Hydrology of Amboseli
Cc: cambray@msu.edu

Dear Harvey:

Good to see you again and stir up thoughts!

I have returned w/ some documents that will assist our investigation of the hydrology of Amboseli. I am sitting w/ Bill Cambray, Prof of Geology ( he worked in Zambia), who Cynthia Moss met while she was in Detroit a couple of yrs ago when we discussed the possibility of a project to investigate the Amboseli water controversy!

Our initial discussions today in the light of these docs, lead us to ask questions about measuring the area of L Amboseli from imagery, looking at stream flow data, and any well and borehole data that may be available. We think that a 3-yr project involving us supervising a MA student with skills in GIS together with our wet geologists will be able to make a significant contribution and define the next steps in the investigation.

Would you pls share this message with Cynthia and see if she (and hopefully R Leakey) would be interested in assisting us in a grant proposal and perhaps suggesting some potential funding sources.

Let us know whether this is still of interest to the elephant group. Bill is retiring soon and is interested in spending some time on this work - he will have more time as an emeritus professor. We think that we can give this a respectable shot - our GIS competence is very strong as is our hydrology modelling capability.

All the best, David

ps. we have just been funded by NSF for a Planning Grant on a LandUse-Climate Change Project looking at East Africa. Good stuff.