OceanExpert ID : 30052
Ms. Getrude Tausi LESHAMTA
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOREST MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
State Department for Forestry-Forest policy, research and knowledge management
Oceanography & Marine Services of the Kenya Meteorological Department
30259 GPO 00100
Dagorretti Corner, Ngong' Road
Nairobi , Kenya
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Nationality
Kenya
Email(s)
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Telephone
+254 720672579
PhD
Operational Support (technical)
Climatology, Meteorology
Physical Oceanography
Policy, Law, Economics, Management
Research Support Services
Previous employment: Climate information services
- Forecast maritime weather,
- storm and cyclone monitoring,
- Tsunami ready activities,
- Guide BMUs,
- Generation & Dissemination of weather forecasts, advisories and warnings,
- research,
- teach/train on Climate change, Marine Meteorology and physical oceanography,
- participate in marine and climate conferences and workshops.
- participate in Resilient Sea Nature Based Solutions for Seascape restoration activities
- Developing forest management and conservation, agroforestry and commercial forestry policies, strategies, legislations, regulations, plans, standards and guidelines;
- Reviewing concept notes for projects and programmes on forest management and conservation, commercial forestry and agroforestry;
- Liaising with relevant stakeholders on implementation of forestry projects and programmes;
- Establishing forestry management information systems and database of all forests and forest health status;
- Promoting Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in forest management, conservation, protection, agro-forestry and commercial forestry;
- Coordinating preparation of guidelines for "Adopt a Forest" concept;
- Monitoring and evaluating compliance on forestry related Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and other regional instruments and protocols;
- Reviewing strategies for promotion of nature-based enterprises for communities' economic livelihoods;
- Analyzing strategies on the development of urban forests and green space;
- Validating data on forest management and conservation, agro-forestry and commercial forestry and making recommendations thereon; and
- Participating in national and international environmental day
Indian Ocean
Forest management and Conservation,
Forest policy, research and knowledge management,
Nature based solutions-Seascape restoration,
Climate change,
Marine Meteorology and physical oceanography
Teaching
R Programming
Geospatial modelling and Marine GIS
Environmental niche modelling
Meteorological weather and ocean observations
Weather analysis and forecasting
Maritime weather forecasting
Tsunami ready activities and communications
Climatology
English
