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Research Grant 2024/2025 - The researchers to receive funding are:

Elikplim Abla Dzikunoo

Sediment budget/Backstripping and Thermal perturbation of the Voltaian Sedimentary Basin, southern Ghana.
Department of Earth Science, University of Ghana

Yen Adams Sokama-Neuyam

The CO2 Storage Resource Assessment Project (CO2SRAP) (WAXI)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Research Grant 2023/2024 – The researchers to receive funding are:

Wilédio Marc-Emile BONZI

Le rôle des migmatites dans les processus métallogéniques de l’orogénèse éburnéenne : contribution à la genèse des magmas enrichis et des fluides hydrothermaux. (WAXI)
Université de Dédougou, Burkina Faso

Ibrahima DIA

Contribution à la compréhension des relations entre l’orogenèse hercynienne et les formations précambriennes du Craton Ouest Africain (CAO) : Etude comparative de leurs séquences “ophiolitiques” au Sénégal.
Université Amadou Mahtar Mbow de Dakar.

Fanuel KAWAKA

Heavy Metal Contamination of Ground Water in Artisanal Mining Areas of Western Kenya: Generating Evidence for Policy Change.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya

Marian Selorm SAPAH

Petrography, Geochemistry and Provenance of the Paleoproterozoic Tarkwaian Sediments in The Kibi-Winneba Greenstone Belt of Ghana.
University of Ghana, Ghana

Augustin Yao KOFFI

Le grand accident tectonique de Greenville-Ferkessédougou-Bobo-Dioulasso représente-il une zone de suture ? (WAXI)
Université Félix Houphouët Boigny

Research Grant 2022/2023 - The researchers to receive funding are:

Victoria EMEKA

Foraminiferal Assessment of Estuaries of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: Implications for Pollution Monitoring and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
University of Calabar, Nigeria

Abass GIBRILLA

Multiple approach for delineating the impact of land use changes on groundwater quality in a semi arid region of Ghana
Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, Ghana

Ndeye Marame NGOM

Application de l’intelligence artificielle aux données Sentinel-2 pour la détection et la cartographie des sites d’orpaillage au Sénégal Oriental
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal

Alexis NDONGO

Etude cartographique et géochimique des plateaux de manganèse des bassins de Franceville et d’Okondja dans le Sud-Est, Gabon.
USTM Franceville, Gabon

Research Grant 2021/2022 - The researchers who received funding are:

Yvonne Sena Akosua Loh

Petro-structural, and hydrogeological characterisation of crystalline basement rocks of south-eastern Ghana: assessment of groundwater potentials
University of Ghana – Department of Earth Science

Mahamadou Diallo

Synthèse tectono-magmatique et métallogénique de la Boutonnière de Kédougou-Kéniéba : Intégration de nouvelles données géophysiques et de terrain pour la modélisation 3D.
Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs Abderhamane Baba Touré – ENI-ABT – Département de Géologie et Mine
Link to the article “Litho-Tectonic Architecture of the Dialafara Area, Kédougou-Kéniéba Inlier, Integration of New Field Data and Geophysics” from the work carried out during the Agate Project Research Grant. Open Journal of Geology > Vol.14 No.3, March 2024

Abigail Ayikwei

Geophysical investigation of paleo-geomorphic elements in the Voltaian sedimentary basin, central Ghana, and their economic potential.
University of Ghana – Department of Earth Science

Prince Ofori Amponsah

Gold-bearing conglomerates, localized structures and alteration assemblages: Insight into the geological controls for the Paleoproterozoic Tarkwaian gold. A case study within the AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine, Tarkwa.Moulley Charaf Chabou for his project: The boundaries of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Saharan Atlas (Algeria) with some metallogenic aspects regarding this Province.
University of Ghana – Department of Earth Science

Moulley Charaf Chabou

The boundaries of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Saharan Atlas (Algeria) with some metallogenic aspects regarding this Province.
Institute of Architecture and Earth Sciences Ferhat Abbas University – Department of Earth Sciences

Eligibility:

- - - Applicants need to be a citizen of an African country, based at an African University
    - Applicants need to have completed a PhD in the last 10 years
    - Applicants cannot submit more than one application per round
    - The research focus can be any subject matter within the earth and planetary sciences
    - No more than one grant will be awarded per organisation
    - An extra grant is available this year for projects related to the WAXI Project
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