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Page title: International Training Centre for Environmental Research
exact: 0.03282071° N, 34.36266809° E
Environmental sciences is studying ecological processes over extended temporal and spatial scales. The International Training Centre for Environmental Research (ITCER) with its staff in Western Kenya provides a local logistic infrastructure for regional, national and international professionals and projects in academics and around working in this area. The facility supports training events, keeps rooms for seminars, a biological laboratory and an area of 1 ha for sustainable long-term field experiments. Informatics expertise, data infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_infrastructure and software services are available.
Geography and Ecosystem, Biodiversity
The ITCER facility is located in the Uradi village, Ng’iya, Siaya County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siaya_County, 60 km from Kisumu at Lake Victoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Victoria. The area is part of western Kenya western Kenya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanza_Province (East Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa) and categorised as belonging to Sub-Saharan Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa. The equatorial region has a typical tropical climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_climate and vegetation. There are a lot of environmental issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues.
Facility providing infrastructure and training
The infrastructure of the facility is established as an answer to the sozio-economical needs of the region for sustainable environmental projects. Subjects are biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring, soil and water conservation, plant pathology, and data management in relation to requirements of the local human population. Long-term monitoring initiatives and projects related to biodiversity, nature conservation and citizen science will be encouraged and supported by ITCER expertise. ITCER supported studies are done together with universities from inside and outside of Kenya as well directly with institutions of the research and nature conservation sector. Ref *** website ***. Current projects focus on topics like microplastic in western Kenya, fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems and ethnobiology in Africa. *** Ref 1-3. A collaboration with the international network "Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, https://www.gbif.org/)" for free and open access of data and with the "German National Infrastructure for Research Data" (NFDI4Biodiversity, https://www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/en)" for concepts on data management is on the way. Ref. ***Weibulat & Triebel***.
ITCER works as training and education unit. Between 2022 and 2024 more than 20 events (mainly seminars, workshops and field trips) were organised and a number of software for education purposes was realised. . *** website ***
History
ITCER started in 2016 with two interlinked NGOs: ITCER e.V. and ITCER Kenya. The non-profit partner organizations are dedicated to advancing research, teaching, and outreach in environmental sciences and conservation xx in Siaya County, Kenya, by dedicated services of an international training centre.
University of Bayreuth
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References
Gkoutselis, G., Rohrbach, S., Harjes, J. et al. Plastiphily is linked to generic virulence traits of important human pathogenic fungi. Commun Earth Environ 5, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01127-3
- Kinge, T., Jefwa, J., Houdanon, R., Kamalebo, H., Abdel-Azeem, A., Gryzenhout, M., Triebel, D., Weibulat, T., Rambold, G. 2023. Management and publication of scientific data on traditional mycological and lichenological knowledge in Africa. – The Lichenologist, 55(5): 169–179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282923000294
Gkoutselis G, Rohrbach S, Harjes J, Obst M, Brachmann A, Horn MA, Rambold G. Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems. Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 15;11(1):13214. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92405-7. PMID: 34267241; PMCID: PMC8282651.
- Weibulat, T. M., & Triebel, D. 2024. Continuation of partnership Germany-Kenya with two workshops in 2023. GBIF Europe and Central Asia Nodes meeting 2024 (GBIF ECA 2024), Zagreb, Croatia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12082639
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Stoffsammlung
Locality: Uradi Village, Mur Ng’iya, East Alego, Siaya County, Kenya (0.03282071° N, 34.36266809° E)