Effects of Wetland Conversion to Farming on Water Quality and Sediment and Nutrient Retention in a Tropical Catchment

ISBN-13: 9780367859732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Abias Uwimana

Opis

The study assessed the impacts of conversion of wetlands to farming land on the water quality and sediment and nutrient retention.

Spis treści

Seasonal Water Discharge in a tropic Catchment,  Seasonal Water quality dynamics in a tropic Catchment,  Seasonal Land use and land cover dynamics in a tropic Catchment,  Effects of river discharge and land use and land cover (LULC) on water quality dynamics in tropic catchment,  Retention of sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus in tropic catchment,  Hydrological flows in mesocosm experimental land and land cover,  Water quality in mesocosm experimental land and land cover,  Effects of conversion of wetlands to rice and fish farming on water quality in a tropic catchment.

O autorze

Abias Uwimana was born on 8 September 1975 at Kora, Gisenyi in Rwanda. After completing his primary and secondary education, he served as a primary school teacher at Kijote Primary School from 1999 to 2000. From 2000, he enrolled in the Bachelor's programme at the National University of Rwanda (NUR) and graduated in Chemistry in 2005. In 2007, he started his MSc studies in Water Resources and Environmental Management at NUR and graduated in 2008. In the same year, he started working at NUR as Assistant Lecturer and Laboratory Analyst for water quality. In 2009, he started his PhD studies at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands, conducting his PhD research activities while continuing his academic duties at the university, including teaching courses on environmental chemistry and management and water quality analysis, performing laboratory analyses, and supervision of BSc and Msc theses. As a laboratory analyst he took part in the Victoria Research (VICRES) project on assessment of water quality in the Akagera River since 2008-2009. In 2016, he received an international Travel Award to Corpus Christi, Texas, USA to present his work at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Abias Uwimana is married and has three children.