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The Agate Research Grants applications are now closed for 2024.

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L’appel de subventions de recherche Agate est fermee pour 2024

The Agate Scholarship applications are now closed for 2024.

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L’appel de bourses Agate est fermee pour 2024.

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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